About this episode

In this episode, Dr. Elaine Borghi discusses the evolution of WHO's global foodborne disease burden estimates and their implications for food safety interventions.

Elaine Borghi, Ph.D. is Unit Head for Monitoring and Surveillance, Nutrition, and Food Safety at the World Health Organization (WHO). Dr. Borghi contributes to the coordination of efforts for nutrition and food safety data management, the generation of regional and global-level estimates and data-sharing tools, and the facilitation of inter-department data and methods harmonization. She holds a Ph.D. from the Statistics Department of the University of Wisconsin and a master's degree in Statistics from the State University of Campinas in Brazil. Before her time at WHO, Dr. Borghi was a lecturer at the State University of Campinas for 12 years. In addition to teaching, she provided statistical support to research in agriculture planning for rural sustainable development. In this episode of Food Safety Matters , we speak with Dr. Borghi [24:38] about: How the methodology behind the new WHO global foodborne disease burden estimates has evolved since the original 2015 estimates New insights related to national and regional differences and trends over time How WHO compiles and validates the data on which the estimates are based, and the role that international partners and surveillance…

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