Lab Culture Ep. 10: Public health labs do that?!
Public health laboratories do a great deal of work that impacts the daily lives of everyone in America. Do you know exactly how much they’re…
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Lab Culture Ep. 9: What is the APHL Emerging Leader Program?
What is the Emerging Leader Program (ELP)? APHL staff, Pandora Ray and Kajari Shah, share how the ELP got its start and how it has…
Everything you need for Lab Week 2018
Get ready for Lab Week! April 22-28 we will join our members and partners to celebrate the vital contributions laboratory professionals make to protect public health and safety in…
Lab Culture Ep. 8: Leaders for a TB free world
Every year on March 24, APHL recognizes World TB Day, a day to focus on the valuable work of our members and partners. While tuberculosis…
New Lab Matters: 100 Years of Influenza
In 1918, no one even knew for sure that influenza was a viral disease; but then, the field of public health laboratory practice was still…
Do you have questions about packaging and shipping regulations that are not easily answered?
By Patricia Payne, president, JBM Associates, Inc.; consultant, APHL In some circumstances, when a question arises about classification, hazardous material (hazmat) compliance or how to…
Four Corners States Biomonitoring Collaborative: Leveraging lab capacity toward regional health concerns
By Kim Krisberg 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid—otherwise known as 2,4-D—is the active ingredient in a variety of weed killers and one of the most common, widely used…
APHL: President Trump’s FY 2019 budget request is “disheartening and disappointing”
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) is very concerned about the decline in federal funding for public health functions such as detection, surveillance and…
Q&A with Iowa lab’s safety officer, Drew Fayram: How the CDC/APHL biosafety and biosecurity program created a culture of safety
APHL recently checked in with Drew Fayram, the safety officer at the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa, to get his perspective on…
Public health labs at center of 2017 mumps outbreaks: ‘This really could be a new normal for mumps’
by Kim Krisberg As of December 2, more than 4,900 cases of mumps had been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in…