World Food Safety Day - June 2024

Access to adequate, safe and wholesome food is increasingly critical to sustain the world’s growing population. Yet, efforts to advance food safety and nutrition security are frequently siloed with minimal consideration of the impacts in these complementary areas. This panel will discuss the importance of integrated approaches to food safety and nutrition security.

Moderator

 

Barbara Kowalcyk

GW Milken Institute School of Public Health

Panelists

Jennifer Sacheck

GW Milken Institute School of Public Health

Caroline Smith DeWaal

CSIS

Michael Taylor

STOP Foodborne Illness

Kelly Cormier

USAID

Ensuring food safety requires being prepared for food safety events like outbreaks, recalls, natural disasters and intentional food contamination events. This session will highlight current topics/issues in food safety related to the WFSD theme. 

Moderator

Janet Buffer

GW Milken Institute School of Public Health

 

Speakers

Uri Colon-Ramos

GW Milken School of Public Health

 

Ensuring Nutrition Security During Emergency Disasters.

Brian Ronholm

Consumer Reports

 

Restoring Consumer Confidence in Food Chemical Safety.

Allison Sylvetsky

GW Milken School of Public Health

 

Mothers' Experiences During the 2022 Infant Formula Shortage: a Crisis at the Nexus of Food Safety and Nutrition Security.

Gabby Headrick

GW Milken School of Public Health

Feeding with Dignity: Promoting Food Safety and Nutrition in the Charitable Food System.

Elisabetta Lambertini

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

 

Uncovering Incentives for Improving Food Safety in Traditional Markets.

Ariel Garsow
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

 

Food Safety Challenges in Refugee Camps: What Do We Know.

Cindy Liu
GW Milken School of Public Health

 

Triazole Use in Plant Agriculture: a Driver of Drug-Resistance Fungal Infections.

Katya Cronin

GW Law School

 

Breakfast with a Side of PFAS.

Food safety is a wicked problem that requires approaches that consider the interconnectedness of human, animal, environmental and plant health (aka One Health). This session will provide two case studies – antimicrobial resistance and avian influenza – that demonstrate how One Health approaches are critical to preparing for food safety events.

Moderator

Susan Anenberg

GW School of Public Health

Panelist

Lance Price

GW Milken Institute School of Public Health

Roberta Wagner

International Dairy Foods Association

Governments play a critical role in preparing for and responding to food safety incidents, including developing emergency response plans, strengthening regulatory systems, increasing surveillance coordination capacities, and improving communication with stakeholder groups. The focus of this session will be on the activities that FDA and USDA are undertaking to plan for emerging food safety issues and, in particular, climate change.

Moderator

Dean Lynn Goldman

GW Milken Institute School of Public Health

Panelists

Jim Jones

FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods

Sandy Eskin

USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety