About
The New York State Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence (NY CoE) is a collaboration between the New York State Department of Health and Cornell University.
Operating from the premise that no one organization has a monopoly on best practices, ideas, or strategies, the NY CoE aims to engage jurisdictions in the northeast and mid-Atlantic to establish and facilitate a sustainable “Food Safety Learning Collaborative” (LC) to achieve shared food safety goals. Through collaboratively generating consensus-building around the products that are most needed within the region, the NY CoE hopes to support and enhance the outbreak investigative capacities of epidemiologists, testing laboratories and environmental health services in our regional states.
Main activities of the CoE
Strengthen
Strengthen and standardize surveillance and outbreak investigations
Analyze
Analyze and improve timeliness, completeness and effectiveness of responses
Train
Train public health staff in competency-based training of surveillance and investigation techniques
Educate
Educate next generation of epidemiology, environmental health, and laboratory future food safety leaders
Improve
Improve capacity of information systems
Evaluate & communicate
Evaluate and communicate best practices
Northeast/Mid-Atlantic States covered in this region include:
Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York (including New York City), Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia
