Engaged Curriculum Grants
Food Systems Approaches to Food Safety
Training students to detect, solve and ultimately prevent outbreaks of food-borne illness throughout the farm-to-table continuum.
Each year, 48 million people become sick from a food-borne illness in the United States and 3,000 of these people die from their food-borne infections. In this project, students partner with a state agency and a nonprofit organization to improve the detection and prevention of food-borne illnesses throughout New York state. A new course, Food Systems Approaches to Food Safety, trains students to identify and address food safety concerns throughout the farm-to-table continuum. The students help alleviate a state shortage of professionals trained to interview patients infected by contaminated food. They also collaborate with the state health department on investigating outbreaks of food-borne illnesses and work with the New York State Association for Food Protection to develop educational materials to teach food processors how to detect and prevent the problem.
Grant type: Development (2017-18, 2016-17)
Topics: Education; Food and Agriculture; Health, Nutrition and Medicine
The Team
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Martin Wiedmann, Department of Food Science
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Randy Worobo, Department of Food Science
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Renata Ivanek Miojevic, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
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Alphina Jui-Jung Ho, Department of Food Science
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Gen Meredith, Cornell Master of Public Health Program
College of Veterinary Medicine
- Community partner: New York State Association for Food Protection
- Community partner: New York State Department of Health
In the News
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018
Master of Public Health Program plans local nutrition, disease prevention projects
– One Health @ Cornell website
Engaged Curriculum Grants
Funding teams that are integrating community-engaged learning into new and existing curricula.