Post-Award Management
Workshop for Non-competitive Food Safety Grants
The USDA/CSREES is conducting Post-Award
Management Workshops throughout agency program
areas. The Non-competitive Food Safety Grants
workshop was held August 22-24, 2005, at
the Waterfront Centre, 800 9th Street, SW,
Washington, DC.
The meeting was a networking and scientific
information exchange to:
- coordinate regional and national efforts
to avoid duplication and create synergy
in productivity;
- align research activities with national
and international priorities in food safety
research;
- emphasize the impacts of special research
grants in food safety;
- provide input on future research priorities
that would impact food safety;
- learn how the CSREES award management
and post-award management processes for
special grants work, and provide suggestions
for improvements in the processes; and
- provide a forum for meeting Congressional
requirements mandating timely progress
and completion of projects.
The Workshop provided a positive and productive
experience for all attendees. To determine
the future focus on food safety issues participants
were asked to answer the following four questions:
- What are the food safety national priorities?
- How do we solicit stakeholder feedback
on food safety issues from concept to completion?
- How do we integrate the spectrum of biological,
physical, and social science input on food
safety issues both within and amongst university,
government, and industry?
- What would be the best way to promote
networking amongst partners and how best
for them to provide solutions for both
regional and national food safety issues?
Participants’ responses to the questions
are found in the Breakout
Session Notes and the Workshop Participant
Evaluation Notes.
The workshop program and presentations are
available on the Agenda and Abstracts pages.
For more information, contact Jodi
Powell, Program Specialist, Food Science
and Food Safety.
Other workshop contacts include Ram
Rao, National Program Leader, Food
Science and Dionne
Toombs, Program Specialist, Food Science
and Nutrition.
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