Food Safety Summit presented by Food Safety Magazine

Vanessa CoffmanVanessa Coffman
Director
Alliance to Stop Foodborne Illness

Vanessa Coffman received her PhD in Environmental Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2018. Previously, she worked at Stop Foodborne Illness as a policy analyst with a focus on FSMA implementation and has published research including an examination of farming in a post-war setting for the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization in Sierra Leone, on occupational and residential exposures from large pork production operations in rural North Carolina, and the association between nitrate in drinking water (largely from food animal operations) and fetal health outcomes in Denmark. Returning to STOP, she has grown the Alliance membership, staff, and its programs with an eye toward advancing food safety culture throughout the entire food system.