Trainings

Competencies

These competencies are designed for public health professionals engaged in foodborne illness outbreak detection, investigation, and response.

• Competencies for Epidemiologists
• Competencies for Environmental Health

On demand trainings

• Advanced Course for Enteric Epidemiologists
• Environmental Assessment Quick Train
• Environmental Assessment Just-in-Time Training
• Three Steps and a Hop: An Interactive Beginner Foodborne Outbreak Investigation Case Study
• Illness at the Inn: An Interactive Beginner Foodborne Outbreak Investigation Case Study
• Interview Skills for Public Health Investigators Video
• Hypothesis Generation during a Foodborne Illness Outbreak Video
• Applied Outbreak Investigation Training
• Challenging Interview Scenario Video Series: This series is comprised of ten videos that model skills for navigating common situations in enteric disease interviews. Video topics include: interviewing individuals who are distrustful, don't stay on track, can't recall exposures, ask medical questions, want to pursue legal action, report ill contacts and who work in a high-risk setting; using an interpreter/language line, asking sexual history questions, and interviewing in a potential outbreak situation.
• Oral Culture Learner Train the Trainer Toolkit for Conducting a Food Safety Class: Boulder County Public Health (BCPH) has created a training program to assist food establishments to better prevent foodborne illness risks by training staff on food safety. The training is very interactive and is designed to be provided in the food establishment looking at the foods and equipment workers are familiar with day in and day out. The training is focused on learning styles that favor pictures, videos and interactive learning over more traditional print materials. BCPH has seen great results from our pilot efforts and are excited to share the resources with others.

In-person trainings

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• Applied Outbreak Investigation: One-day introduction to basic outbreak investigation skills for environmental health professionals, communicable disease investigators, public health nurses, and other public health professionals at local or regional health departments
• Epi-Ready Team Training: A two-day workshop developed by CDC and NEHA focusing on how to efficiently and effectively respond to an outbreak by understanding the roles and responsibilities of the disciplines involved (epidemiology, environmental health, and laboratory)
• Student Outbreak Response Training: A half-day workshop for students to learn interview techniques used in foodborne disease outbreak investigations
• Foodborne Outbreak Challenge: A one-day event for students to compete to solve a foodborne outbreak

Synchronous online learning

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• Hypothesis Generation during a Foodborne Outbreak Investigation ECHO: A 4-session series for foodborne epidemiologists on available data and tools for hypothesis generation.
• Foundational Interview Skills Training: A two-session series for new public health interviewers to learn and practice interview techniques
• Advanced Interview Skills Training: A six-session series covering more advanced interview topics for beginner or intermediate interviewers
• Applied Whole Genome Sequencing for Epidemiologists

Case studies

• Three Steps and a Hop: A beginner case study based on a local foodborne illness outbreak at a polka dance festival (Instructor Guide, Student Guide, Tabletop Slides, Interactive Online Version)
• Illness at the Inn: A Shigella case study (Instructor Guide, Participant Guide, Interactive Online Version)
• County Fair Chocolate Scare: An intermediate case study based on an outbreak caused by the unintentional ingestion of cannabis-infused foods (edibles) at a county fair in Colorado (Instructor Guide, Student Guide, Tabletop Slides)
• Campylobacter Outbreak at a Colorado Correctional Facility: A beginner case study based on an outbreak caused by Campylobacter at several Department of Corrections facilities in Colorado (Instructor Guide, Student Guide, Interactive Online Version)