Food borne outbreaks
1. Briefly describe how clinical and public health information is used to identify and to respond to foodborne illnesses.
2. Analyze and discuss the responsibilities of clinical and public health professionals, individually and collaboratively,
during the identification and response to foodborne illnesses.
3. Discuss how the clinical and public health interventions used to prevent, identify, and respond to foodborne outbreaks
can be applied to other public health emergencies. To elaborate your answer, identify a specific public health threat in your
community. Describe how different health professions could work together to address this threat. Given concrete
examples.
4. Reflect upon both this web-based experience and your own experiences working on inter-professional teams. In your
reflection, discuss the benefits and challenges of working as part of an inter-professional team. Elaborate on your role as a future public health professional in advancing the inter professional nature of our field.