(FOA)-Environmental
Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net) - Practice Based Research to Improve Food
Safety; February 28, 2020
Agency
Department
of Health and Human Services
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
Description
The
Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net) is a collaborative forum of
environmental health specialists who work together to improve environmental
health practice. EHS-Net seeks to improve the practice of environmental health
service programs by developing and sustaining a network of environmental health
specialists (EHS) who collaborate with epidemiologists, laboratorians and other
public health professionals to conduct practice-based research to identify and
prevent environmental risk factors contributing to foodborne illness. This
Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net) research opportunity seeks
to develop and sustain a network of environmental health program staff, in
collaboration with epidemiologists and other public health professionals, to
identify retail food safety research practice-based priorities focused on
identifying and preventing foodborne illness risk factors, and to conduct the
research. EHS-Net research will contribute to:
·
Identification
of foodborne illness risk factors associated with retail food establishments,
·
Identification
of interventions to address those risk factors and reduce foodborne outbreaks
(including food safety policies),
·
Improvement
of environmental health practice in the area of retail food safety.
This
research opportunity will require three primary activities for those sites
participating in EHS-Net. These are:
·
Identifying
and conducting multisite retail food safety practice-based research projects;
all EHS-Net sites will participate in developing and conducting these projects.
·
Identifying
and conducting single-site retail food safety practice-based projects; these
projects will be unique to each site and will address the needs and priorities
of the site.
·
Collecting
and reporting data from the environmental health component of foodborne
outbreak investigations to NCEH’s National Environmental Assessment Reporting
System (NEARS). These data, when aggregated and analyzed, provide valuable
information about the causes and prevention of foodborne illness
outbreaks.
Note: Only one application
per principal investigator will be funded under this
announcement.
Announcement
Number:
RFA-EH-20-001
Closing
Date:
February
28, 2020
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=320542
Contact
Information
Dan
Holcomb