662 - National Food Safety Education Month: What a Health Department Does to Keep Our Food Safe
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
There's a bit of detective work that has to go into investigating outbreaks of foodborne illnesses, and your local health department plays a key role. Cari Sledzik, an epidemiologist in the Office of Acute Communicable Diseases at the Baltimore City Health Department, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about what goes into piecing together a potential outbreak and what happens once the source is found. To round out this Food Safety Education Month episode, she also shares some tips for how people can avoid foodborne illnesses. Learn more about how to lower your chances of getting sick with the FDA's Food Safety Education Month resources.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
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| 0:29.6 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers, producer of public health on call. |
| 0:34.6 | September is National Food Safety Education Month. In observance, |
| 0:39.7 | we welcome to the podcast, Carrie Sledzik, an epidemiologist in the Office of Acute Communicable |
| 0:45.5 | Diseases at the Baltimore City Health Department. She talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about how |
| 0:50.6 | she investigates foodborne illnesses. She also has some great tips for staying safe at the end of the interview. |
| 0:57.1 | Let's listen. |
| 0:59.2 | Harry Sledsick, thank you so much for joining me here on Public Health On Call |
| 1:03.7 | to talk about what a health department does to keep our food safe. |
| 1:08.8 | Hi, Josh. |
| 1:09.6 | Yes, thank you for having me. |
| 1:11.4 | I'm very excited to chat about what we do here at the health department. |
| 1:16.0 | So maybe by way of introduction, could you explain a little bit about your educational background |
| 1:21.6 | and how long you've been working for Baltimore City? |
| 1:24.9 | So I went to school, got my master's degree in public health at Tulane University. I was in the |
| 1:32.7 | tropical medicine department down there in New Orleans. It was a lot of fun, but I learned a lot. |
| 1:38.3 | After that, I did maternal and child health in West Virginia and got kind of into infectious disease |
| 1:46.9 | in Calvert County for a short spell. And then I've been at Baltimore City Health Department |
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