Workforce & Professional Development

When and why is it legal to not follow the DOT packaging instructions?

By Patricia Payne, president, JBM Associates, Inc.; consultant, APHL If you have completed any packaging and shipping training, you are undoubtedly aware that you must always…

Packaging & Shipping

Safely packaging and shipping infectious agents is critical and complex

February 18, 2016

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By Patricia Payne, president, JBM Associates, Inc.; consultant, APHL If you have never been involved with preparing specimens or cultures to transport for diagnosis or…

Workforce & Professional Development

Lab sciences grad program brought me from the yogurt factory to public health

October 15, 2015

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by Joe Shea, MS, research assistant, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health My career as a laboratory scientist started in a yogurt factory.…

Workforce & Professional Development

Moving from academia to public health: Did I make the right choice?

July 29, 2015

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By Lixia Liu, PhD, MP (ASCP), D(ABMM), deputy director, Indiana Department of Health Laboratories Lixia Liu is a member of APHL’s Emerging Leaders Program (Cohort…

Workforce & Professional Development

Dear Dr. Hunt: This female scientist has something to say. And it isn’t that she loves you.

June 11, 2015

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By Linette Granen, MT(ASCP)DLM, director, Marketing & Membership, APHL After reading the comments made by Tim Hunt, the biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine…

APHL/CDC Laboratory Fellowship Program is Back!

May 20, 2015

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After a brief hiatus due to funding, the APHL/CDC fellowship program is back! Formerly known as the Emerging Infectious Disease (EID) fellowships, the newly reinstated…

Workforce & Professional Development

APHL Coaching Initiative Spans Continents

February 24, 2015

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By Michelle M. Forman, senior specialist, media, APHL Andy Cannons was a member of APHL’s Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) Cohort III in 2011, an intensive…

Workforce & Professional Development

From The Lorax to the Laboratory

February 10, 2015

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by Vanessa Burrowes, APHL-CDC Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratory Fellow, North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health When I was a kid, I was pretty curious…

APHL Staffer Shares her Career Path with the Next Generation of Public Health Students

January 21, 2015

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By: Bertina Su, MPH, senior specialist, Laboratory Systems and Standards, APHL Last fall I was invited back to my alma mater to talk about life…

APHL Introduces Local Students to Lab Careers During STEM Event

June 1, 2014

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By Laura Siegel, Specialist, National Center for Public Health Laboratory Leadership, APHL “Wanna see something fun and twisted? This is my DNA,” says a nine-year-old boy…

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