Hosted by the Public Health Agency of Canada
The Public Health Agency of Canada is pleased to announce the next session of the Enteric Outbreak Seminar Series (EOSS). EOSS is brought to you by the Centre for Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Outbreak Management Division. The Outbreak Management Division detects, assesses, and responds to multi-jurisdictional outbreaks of enteric illnesses in Canada and provides expertise, support, and training to public health authorities investigating enteric illness outbreaks.
The Enteric Outbreak Seminar Series aims to increase knowledge and awareness of enteric illness outbreak investigations in Canada, including novel approaches, research, special projects, and upcoming or recent changes in policy or practice.
The next seminar will take place on September 18th, 2024 from 14:00-15:00 EDT. Live audio interpretation (French) and live captioning (French and English) will be available.
The topic of the seminar is Foodbook 2.0: A Canadian food consumption study.
Foodbook is a national food consumption survey conducted by the Public Health Agency of Canada. The second version of the survey, Foodbook 2.0, was conducted from January 2023 to January 2024 using online and phone interviews. Over 21,000 people in Canada were surveyed, with respondents from each province and territory. Respondents were asked about their food, animal and water exposures over the past seven days, as well as their food safety knowledge and practices, and recent acute gastrointestinal illnesses. This seminar will cover what Foodbook is and how the data is used, as well as results from Foodbook 2.0 and how the data can be accessed.
Speakers:
Megan Tooby, Epidemiologist
Outbreak Management Division
Public Health Agency of Canada
Kate Thomas, Surveillance Manager
Foodborne Disease and Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Division
Public Health Agency of Canada