Catching up with Kristin Shaw

Kristin Shaw was a member of Cohort II.  

At that time, she was the Health Inspector for the Portsmouth, NH Health Department and her role included conducting plan review, licensing and inspections for the city’s retail and manufactured foods programs, along with other environmental health and emergency preparedness responsibilities.

Since then, she has served as a subject matter expert for the National Curriculum Standards Retail Framework Workgroup and as a co-author of the “Regulatory Foundations for the Food Protection Professional” book. She is a member of the AFDO FOER Committee and has served on the PFP Outreach Committee, as well as the IFPTI Fellowship Advisory Board. She is a member of the National Environmental Health Association, the New Hampshire Health Officers Association, and the International Association of Food Protection.

Currently, she is serving as the Deputy Health Officer for the City of Portsmouth. In this role, she is responsible for managing the Retail and Manufactured Food Safety programs and supervising staff, along with her additional responsibilities in public and environmental health and emergency preparedness/response.

“Participating in the Fellowship program provided me with an opportunity to learn from veteran professionals in food safety while cultivating new working relationships with like-minded colleagues across the nation. It’s enabled me to make changes locally, as well as participate in effecting change for broader stakeholder groups, too. I recommend the program to everyone!” - Kristin Shaw