National Studies as a Component of the World Health Organization Initiative to Estimate the Global and Regional Burden of Foodborne Disease

Robin J Lake; Brecht Devleesschauwer; George Nasinyama; Arie H Havelaar; Tanja Kuchenmüller; Juanita A Haagsma; Helen H Jensen; Nasreen Jessani; Charline Maertens de Noordhout; Frederick J Angulo; John E Ehiri; Lindita Molla; Friday Agaba; Suchunya Aungkulanon; Yuko Kumagai; Niko Speybroeck

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National Studies as a Component of the World Health Organization Initiative to Estimate the Global and Regional Burden of Foodborne Disease

Robin J Lake, Brecht Devleesschauwer, George Nasinyama, Arie H Havelaar, Tanja Kuchenmüller, Juanita A Haagsma, Helen H Jensen, Nasreen Jessani, Charline Maertens de Noordhout, Frederick J Angulo, John E Ehiri, Lindita Molla, Friday Agaba, Suchunya Aungkulanon, Yuko Kumagai, Niko Speybroeck

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BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) initiative to estimate the global burden of foodborne diseases established the Foodborne Diseases Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG) in 2007. In addition to global and regional estimates, the initiative sought to promote actions at a national level. This involved capacity building through national foodborne disease burden studies, and encouragement of the use of burden information in setting evidence-informed policies. To address these objectives a FERG Country Studies Task Force was established and has developed a suite of tools and resources to facilitate national burden of foodborne disease studies. This paper describes the process and lessons learned during the conduct of pilot country studies under the WHO FERG initiative.

FINDINGS: Pilot country studies were initiated in Albania, Japan and Thailand in 2011 and in Uganda in 2012. A brief description of each study is provided. The major scientific issue is a lack of data, particularly in relation to disease etiology, and attribution of disease burden to foodborne transmission. Situation analysis, knowledge translation, and risk communication to achieve evidence-informed policies require specialist expertise and resources.

CONCLUSIONS: The FERG global and regional burden estimates will greatly enhance the ability of individual countries to fill data gaps and generate national estimates to support efforts to reduce the burden of foodborne disease.

Original language	English
Article number	e0140319
Journal	PLoS One
Volume	10
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140319
Publication status	Published - 4 Dec 2015

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Lake, R. J., Devleesschauwer, B., Nasinyama, G., Havelaar, A. H., Kuchenmüller, T., Haagsma, J. A., Jensen, H. H., Jessani, N., Maertens de Noordhout, C., Angulo, F. J., Ehiri, J. E., Molla, L., Agaba, F., Aungkulanon, S., Kumagai, Y., & Speybroeck, N. (2015). National Studies as a Component of the World Health Organization Initiative to Estimate the Global and Regional Burden of Foodborne Disease. PLoS One, 10(12), Article e0140319. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140319

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