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Call for Abstracts for the NEHA 2024 AEC Closes on October 9
• A Track 2 Development Base Grant with options to be a mentee, work on Standard 9, and/or attend retail training courses. • Optional Add-On Grants: » In addition to the options above, Track 2 applicants may also apply to be a mentor (instead of a mentee) and/or apply for a Special Projects Grant. » Existing Track 3 Maintenance and Advancement Base Grantees may apply to be a mentor or a mentee, request funds for retail training courses, and/or apply for a Special Projects Grant. Learn more at www.neha.org/retail-grants. 2024 InFORM Conference The Integrated Foodborne Outbreak Response and Management (InFORM) Conference brings together the network of public health o£cials involved with foodborne and enteric disease out- break response. This network includes current federal, state, and local public health and environmental health specialists, epidemi- ologists, health communicators, and laboratory scientists. Held every 2 years, the conference consists of a keynote speaker, plenary and discipline-specific sessions, and poster presentations. The 2024 InFORM Conference will be held on January 22–24, 2024, in Washington, DC. Invited participants include public health colleagues from local, state, tribal, or federal agencies and departments involved in enteric disease surveillance and outbreak response. This includes but is not limited to: • Environmental health specialists involved in enteric disease out- break investigations. • Epidemiologists who investigate local or multistate enteric dis- ease outbreaks. • Health communicators involved in enteric disease outbreaks, prevention, and food safety education. • Laboratory scientists who are a part of the PulseNet Network or who are interested in learning more about PulseNet. The InFORM Conference celebrates this robust network of public health o£cials who are connected by cause, driven by data, and empowered by collaboration. If you are currently a public health o£cial who works in foodborne and enteric dis- eases, please consider joining us for the first in-person InFORM Conference since 2017. The initial abstract submission period closed on August 25, but a late breaker abstract submission period will open on Octo- ber 2 and close on October 16. Take advantage of this submis- sion window to ensure the environmental health perspective is included in discussions about foodborne and enteric disease out- break response. For more details on the 2024 InFORM Conference, visit www. neha.org/inform.
The Call for Abstracts for the 2024 Annual Educational Confer- ence (AEC) & Exhibition opened on August 28 and will close on October 9 . We invite you to take advantage of this opportunity to provide unique insight and share your experience, expertise, knowledge, and research by submitting an abstract for our 2024 AEC in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on July 15–18, 2024. Your insight can provide fellow environmental health professionals with practical skills and knowledge they can take back to implement in their jurisdictions and departments. The 2024 AEC Review Committee will review all abstract sub- missions based on quality, relevance, impact, and originality. Fur- thermore, the review committee reserves the right to request edits to submitted presentations or to reject a submitted presentation if it does not meet review criteria or follow submission guidelines. Learn more about the submission process and our educa- tional tracks, as well as submit your abstract, at www.neha.org/ aec-call-abstracts. NEHA-FDA RFFM Grant Program Portal Closes October 11 The grant portal for Year 3 of the NEHA-Food and Drug Adminis- tration (FDA) Retail Flexible Funding Model (RFFM) Grant Pro- gram will close on October 11 . This annual funding opportunity supports state, local, tribal, and territorial retail food regulatory programs to meet the FDA Voluntary National Retail Food Regula- tory Program Standards. These grants are supported by FDA under award U2FFD007358. Retail food safety programs can apply for a base grant (through one of two tracks) and up to three additional add-on grants (for Track 2 applicants and Track 3 grantees). Consider applying for: • A Track 1 Development Base Grant with options to be a men- tee and/or attend a self-assessment and verification audit (SA/ VA) workshop.
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October 2023 • Journal of Environmental Health
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