Food Safety Risk Analysis Professional Development Training Program 2003
The Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN) is a multidisciplinary research and education program. JIFSAN was formed in 1996 as a partnership between the University of Maryland and the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Centers for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) and Veterinary Medicine (CVM). Food safety and risk analysis is one of the emphases of JIFSAN. Courses in this training program will be held on the campus
of the University of Maryland at College Park. Check back
here for updates. Historically food safety risk analysis has been considered as a useful decision tool. In recent years, however, it has become a necessity both for domestic and international problem solving and dispute resolution. For example, the Uruguay Round on Multilateral Trade Negotiations 1986–1994 resulted in the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) and the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT Agreement), which promoted the use of risk analysis. Also, a Joint Food and Agriculture Organization/World Health Organization (FAO/WHO) Conference on Food Standards (1991) recommended that the Codex Alimentarius Commission, the international food standard organization, incorporate the use of risk analysis principles into their decision making, which was subsequently accepted. The North American Free Trade Agreement and other regional trade agreements also support the use of risk analysis. Domestically, the federal government’s emphasis on risk analysis continues to increase. From the Congressionally-initiated Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management to the National Food Safety Initiative, both the Executive and Legislative branches have supported the development of tools and techniques to more accurately assess and manage human health risks. The National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine emphasized in a 1998 report that an effective food safety system should be science-based, with a strong emphasis on risk analysis and prevention. Even so, few professionals, who are not involved on a daily basis, know or understand risk analysis. The worldwide commitment to the use of risk analysis in food safety creates a great need to educate food safety and other public health professionals about this burgeoning field. The JIFSAN Food Safety Risk Analysis Professional Development Training Program arose from the need for risk analysis expertise among the regulatory and scientific communities of the federal food safety agencies. As the language, tools, and techniques of risk analysis become more widely utilized, professionals across a broad spectrum of fields seek to develop this proficiency. This program intends to meet the needs of federal agencies, state governments, academics, industry, trade and consumer groups, and economic, legislative and legal professionals. The Core Courses in this program will also present examples/cases of risk assessments, risk management and risk communication in other FDA regulated products. This extended approach in our program is feasible since the terminology, principles, tools and techniques of risk analysis are applicable across a very wide range of issues confronting both the government and private sectors. New demands and new opportunities call for fundamental shifts in thinking on food safety. The JIFSAN program is designed to help you respond to these challenges with cutting-edge approaches. The program provides information and insights necessary to help organizations respond to a rapidly shifting environment in food safety. It can prepare you to lead change by integrating risk analysis principles into your organizations’ programs. JIFSAN faculty use stimulating teaching techniques including: presentations, discussion, videos, exercises, and case studies. Upon completion of the JIFSAN Professional Development Training Program in Food Safety Risk Analysis participants will:
Participants will receive a JIFSAN Certificate of Completion
for individual courses and specific course clusters. The Core Courses teach the fundamental terminology, knowledge and approaches used in risk analysis. This competency is essential for all food safety (and drugs/biologics and medical devices safety) professionals. Overview of Risk Analysis (1 Day)
Introduction to Food Safety Risk Assessment
(3 Days)
Introduction to Food Safety Risk Communication
(3 Days)
Introduction to Food Safety Risk Management
(3 Days)
These Intermediate Courses allow participants to gain an in-depth understanding of the primary disciplines that contribute to food safety risk analysis. Quantitative Risk Assessment Methods (4
Days)
Introduction to Economics for Risk Analysis
(2 1/2 Days)
Introduction to Food Safety Epidemiology
(3 Days)
Food and Nutrition Toxicology (3 Days) Cost: $720 Industry, $565 Government/Academia
Specialized Courses, designed to meet the specific
needs of executives, risk analysts or scientists involved
in conducting or interpreting risk assessments, are being
developed. Faculty for Core and Intermediate Courses Guy S. Hohenhaus is an infectious disease epidemiologist with particular interest in food safety issues. He earned a DVM at the University of Minnesota, an MPH at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and is a Diplomate in the American College of Veterinary Preventative Medicine. His scholarly interests include bioterrorism, foreign animal diseases and an ongoing research project on the control of cysticercosis in Peru. He is a consultant to the ABC News medical editor. A former member at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Maryland College Park, he now operates a public health consulting practice in central Virginia. Amber Jessup joined the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1999 after completing her doctorate in economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Jessup is mostly involved in analyzing benefits and costs of proposed rules and regulations and providing economic support for others in CFSAN. Her areas of interest include biotechnology, labeling, and methods for measuring morbidity. Bernadene Magnuson is a Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and food Science at the University of Maryland, College Park where she teaches courses in nutrition, food toxicology and cancer prevention. She has published over 20 peer-reviewed research articles and book chapters. Prior to coming to Maryland, Dr. Magnuson was a food toxicology extension specialist at the University of Idaho. Dr.Magnuson is the Chair-Elect for the Toxicology and Safety Evaluation Division of the Institute of Food Technology. Katherine A. McComas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she teaches courses in risk communication, communication theory, and public relations. Her research focuses on risk communication and public participation, particularly in the context of public meetings. An active member of several academic and professional organizations, Dr. McComas was the 2001-2002 Chair of the Risk Communication Specialty Group for the Society of risk analysis Beverly R. Silverberg is President of Beverly R. Silverberg Communications, Inc. and has over 30 years of communication experience. She consults and lectures extensively on media and communication issues and provides risk communication training. For a decade she was the spokesperson for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Her special expertise is in efficient and effective crisis communications. Richard A.Williams, Jr. is an economist
who is currently the Director for the Division of Market Studies
in CFSAN at the FDA. Dr. Williams has been involved in risk
analysis for over 20 years and was instrumental, with USDA,
in designing the Introduction to Risk Assessment course now
being taught by JIFSAN. He is an Charles Yoe is a Professor of Economics at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland and an adjunct faculty member at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Avrum Gudelsky Veterinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Yoe helped to develop and has taught courses in risk
assessment and risk management for several agencies of the
U.S. government in a wide variety of risk analysis applications.
He has been involved in numerous international education activities
for the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), FAO/WHO,
USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) and other
organizations. Drs. Daniel Trachewsky and Wesley R. Long administer the JIFSAN Food Safety Risk Analysis Professional Development Training Program. Daniel Trachewsky is the Education and Outreach Liaison assigned to the FDA JIFSAN liaison staff. Previously, he was the Director for Curriculum Development at the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Staff College and professor in the colleges of medicine of several U.S. and Canadian universities. Wesley R. Long is the Risk Analysis and
Extramural Liaison assigned to the FDA JIFSAN Liaison Staff.
He chairs the Federal Interagency Risk Assessment Consortium
(RAC), composed of 20 federal agencies and organizations that
have food safety risk analysis responsibilities. REGISTRATION - JIFSAN Food Safety Risk Analysis Professional Development Training Program There are 3 ways to register: On-site registration is available.
|