Alaska Public Health Training Network
Agriculture and Food Vulnerability Assessment Training: How Safe Is The Food On Our Table

What would happen if one of our major food suppliers were to be attacked by terrorists? In our upcoming program, we’ll take a fascinating look into the Agricultural Industry and how it could potentially be affected by terrorism. We’ll go inside the classroom to a unique course offering expert training in this area – as offered by the Center For Agriculture & Food Security & Preparedness at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine. It’s a look at potential problems and solutions – along with proven measures to better protect our food industry, and more importantly ourselves. This program and course will increase your awareness of these issues and provide applications to implement within your own facility. What will you learn? Here are some of the key learning objectives for this program What are the essential criteria for assessing potential food safety vulnerabilities? How can we identify and implement systems that will reduce these vulnerabilities? How practical exercises identify threats to animal and food processing facilities How software assessment tools can be used to evaluate potential vulnerabilities Target Audience: This program is geared towards those in the community who help caregivers identify and utilize resources that help them preserve and improve their own health including case managers, social workers, employers, health care providers and those in the aging network.

Target Audience: The primary target audiences include the agriculture and food industry; state, county and local officials; extension and crop specialists; agricultural crime units; others involved with food and agricultural security planning.

Watch live via streaming video at http://uatv.alaska.edu
Video stream archives: http://www.chems.alaska.gov/phtn/library.asp
Please register at www.chems.alaska.gov/phtn

Friday,
Aug. 8th,
12:00 noon
and
7:00 p.m.

and

Sunday,
Aug. 10th,
7:00 p.m.

UA Showcase
UAS: Charles Darwin in Private: The Secret Notebooks, the Big Idea

Celebrated science and nature writer, David Quammen, presents the crucial, yet obscure period in Charles Darwin's life, immediately following the Beagle voyage, during which he developed his theory of evolution. Quammen draws on facts and thoughts from his forthcoming book, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, which will hit bookshelves in July 2006.