Dr Li Bai

Li Bai is Director of the Microbiology lab, National Centre for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA), China. She has over 17 years’ experience in the food safety sector with a focus on molecular epidemiological microbiology, foodborne disease surveillance and microbiological risk assessment. She has been involved in several national projects about the surveillance and control of foodborne pathogens and the microbiological risk assessment to solve the microbial problem during the food chain. Her work focus is on the epidemiology of resistant foodborne pathogens and resistance determinants in the food chain and the associated risks for public health. She has published more than 70 papers in peer reviewed journals and was involved in national and international research projects on foodborne pathogens. In addition, she is a member of the National Committee for Food Safety Standards and the National Committee for Food Safety risk assessment, an expert for the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) and a member of the WHO advisory group Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG).