November 19-21, 2017 Dubai World Trade Centre: Students in Public Health (Food safety) Department attended the 11th Conference of Food Safety which organized by Dubai Municipality.
Dubai Municipality organized the 11th Dubai International Food Safety Conference with the theme “Predict, Prevent & Protect,” its aim being to focus on timely and trending topics that will address the opportunities and challenges in the emerging technology and data-driven food safety world.
Over the three days of the event, Dubai Municipality explored opportunities and ideas to use Technology Platforms, Artificial Intelligence; Big Data, Data Analytics and Data Science and IoT Devices. The aim was to learn how governments as well as the food industry are using these tools for driving inspections and decision making in food safety, nutrition and other areas of public health.
Over 2000 delegates attended the conference, one of the largest in the world dealing with Food Safety issues.
Different universities in the UAE shared their knowledge and experience in this important event and around 42 of our students participated. Ten of our student presented 5 different projects on various topics based on wet lab analysis in CUD labs. They used true data collected as part of their course work.
Speaking of the event, Dr. Yassen Al Foteih, Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Public Health and Health Sciences remarked that the projects presented by CUD were the best in terms of number of students and quality of research when compared with students from other universities in the region.
Our students came away with renewed determination to equip themselves with knowledge and skills to enable them to better meet the food safety challenges we face today.
Speaking on behalf of the Organizing committee, Darin S. Detwiler, Dean of Graduate Studies at Northeastern University said that he was impressed by level of English and the scientific knowledge of our students and marveled at their general performance during their presentations. He said conferences like this were a great platform for students to showcase their talents.
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