Presentations

InFORM (Integrated Foodborne Outbreak Response and Management) Conferences

​​​​​​​​InFORM 2020 conference(external link)

​With great deliberation and meticulous planning, both the Executive Planning Committee and the Laboratory Track Planning Subcommittee are pleased to announce the completion of the below mentioned plenary sessions and laboratory track sessions. APHL, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and APHL member laboratories continue to hold the conference theme true and “Move Forward, Together!” in the face of the pandemic. 

For questions concerning InFORM, please contact Kristy Kubota, man​ager, PulseNet, at foodsafety@aphl.org.

InFORM 2017 Conference(external link)

The InFORM 2017 Conference, a combined meeting of PulseNet, OutbreakNet and Environmental Health Specialists, was held November 6-9, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency Orange County hotel in Garden Grove, CA. The meeting drew over 640 laboratorians, epidemiologists and environmental health professionals from the United States and 9 other countries. Participants represented federal, state and local public health, food and environmental regulatory agencies. Meeting topics included discussion of whole genome sequencing and its utility in foodborne surveillance systems, highlights on past outbreak investigations and the emerging role culture-independent diagnostics will have on current surveillance systems.

InFORM 2015 Confere​nce(external link)

The InFORM 2015 Conference, a combined meeting of PulseNet, OutbreakNet and Environmental Health Specialists, was held in Phoenix, AZ, November 17-20, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix hotel. The meeting drew over 475 laboratorians, epidemiologists and environmental health professionals from the United States and 8 other countries. Participants represented federal, state and local public health, food and environmental regulatory agencies. Meeting topics included discussion of whole genome sequencing and its utility in foodborne surveillance systems, highlights on past outbreak investigations and the emerging role culture-independent diagnostics will have on current surveillance systems.

InFORM 2013 Conference(external link)

The InFORM 2013 Conference, a combined meeting of PulseNet, OutbreakNet and EHS-Net, was held in San Antonio, Texas, November 18-21, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency San Antonio hotel. The meeting drew over 400 laboratorians, epidemiologists, and environmental health professionals from the United States and 8 other countries. The keynote address was given Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration. Meeting topics comprised food science, reports/recaps of 2012-2013 outbreaks including Salmonella, hepatitis A, E. coli, norovirus, Listeria, and cyclosporiasis, enteric zoonoses and One Health, next generation sequencing and other new technologies, subtyping of bacterial pathogens, training and assessments. ​

Proceedings from 2012 16th Annual PulseNet Meeting(external link) and 8th Annual OutbreakNet Conference(external link)

The 16th Annual PulseNet Update and 8th Annual OutbreakNet Meeting was held in Atlanta, Georgia, August 27-30, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta hotel in Buckhead. The meeting drew nearly 400 laboratorians, epidemiologists, and environmental health professionals from Australia, Canada, South Korea and the United States. Participants represented federal, state and local public health and food regulatory agencies.

The theme for this year’s meeting was “Modernizing Outbreak Detection Through Teamwork.” The welcome addresses were given by Drs. Charles Brokopp, President of APHL, and Jennifer Wright, CDC, on the evening of August 27th. The keynote speech was given by Eric Schlosser, Atlantic Monthly, which was titled, “Private Interests and Public Health.”