This talk will focus on preliminary results on new estimates of the social cost of foodborne illness in the U.S. and progress on WHO work on new Global Burden of Foodborne Disease (GBFD) estimates. The new Economic Research Service U.S. estimates focus on a thorough updating of disease modeling underlying the cost estimates and improvements in uncertainty modeling. The speaker serves on the reference group advising WHO on development of its new global burden of foodborne disease estimates. This talk will present an overview of the scope of this work and the process of estimating global burden of foodborne disease estimates.
Speaker: Sandra Hoffmann
Senior Economist·USDA Economic Research Service
