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This presentation provides a comprehensive introduction to modern food safety surveillance, tracing how surveillance systems have evolved alongside changes in U.S. food production and global supply chains. It reviews the foundations of public health surveillance, highlights major foodborne pathogens and outbreak trends, and examines the regulatory landscape guiding food safety, including the roles of agencies such as FDA and CDC. The slide deck also integrates a One Health perspective-linking human, animal, and environmental health-to illustrate how multidisciplinary collaboration strengthens detection, investigation, and prevention of foodborne and zoonotic threats. By the end of this session, partiicpants will be able to:

* Describe the (3) domains of the One Health model (human, animal, and environmental health) and explain their role in reducing zoonotic and foodborne disease risks.

* Identify at least (5) core components of food safety surveillance systems and describe how they guide public health action. 

* Recognize (6) to (8) major foodborne pathogens and summarize their contribution to the annual 48 million U.S. foodborne illness cases. 

Dr. Kathleen Gensheimer is a graduate of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and earned an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health.  She served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer assigned by the U.S. Public Health Service/CDC to the Maine Bureau of Health, assuming the position as Maine’s State Epidemiologist for 28 years prior to accepting a position at the FDA.  Dr. Gensheimer was recruited to lead a new initiative, the Coordinated Outbreak and Response Network, overseeing FDA’s efforts to collaborate with state and federal partners investigating multistate foodborne outbreaks.  She currently serves as a medical officer with the Office of Surveillance Strategy and Risk Prioritization, Human Foods Program, FDA, working to address emerging food safety threats.