EHS Spotlight: PH Informatics, Internship, Food Safety Articles

EHS Spotlight: PH Informatics, Internship, Food Safety Articles

EHS Spotlight: PH Informatics, Internship, Food Safety Articles

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent this bulletin at 12/16/2013 02:21 PM EST

 Environmental Health Services (EHS) for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

New EHS Spotlight Features:

Using Public Health Informatics to Improve EH Practice,

2014 Summer Internship

EHS-Net Food Safety Articles

The Use of Public Health Informatics to Improve Environmental Health Practice– Authors Erik Coleman and Kristin Delea discuss the Environmental Health Specialists Network Information System, a web-based application platform that coordinates and supports data collection activities in the area of foodborne and waterborne illness outbreak prevention. The system is available to government agencies and nonprofit organizations to support their data collection needs relating to environmental health. This article is published in the December 2013 issue of theJournal of Environmental Health. 

Summer Internship with Environmental Health Services! – Applications are now being accepted for a 10-week summer environmental internship for students majoring in Environmental Health. Interns gain environmental health experience and an understanding of environmental health work at the local, state, tribal, and federal levels. Application deadline: February 12, 2014.

EHS-Net Food Safety Articles – Links to four new publications on restaurant food handling practices that have been linked with foodborne illness outbreaks in restaurant settings. 

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