Newborn Screening: Parents are the Best Advocates
By Thalia Wood, MPH, Specialist, NewSTEPs, APHL I came to the Association of Public Health Laboratories after 11 years as the Newborn Screening Program Manager…
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The End of Sequestration: Not as Great as it Sounds
By Peter Kyriacopoulos, Senior Director, Public Policy, APHL Sequestration – or the “automatic cuts” in federal funding – is dead. Long live sequestration! We will no longer…
What We’re Reading — Sequestration Edition
By Peter Kyriacopoulos, Senior Director, Public Policy, APHL On sequester eve, I recommend the following recent articles for those who would like to know more…
What We’re Reading: Flu Edition
By Stephanie Chester, MS, Senior Specialist, Influenza Programs, APHL Many of you have seen or heard the recent headlines: “Flu reaches epidemic level,” “Flu season strikes…
Presenting APHL’s New Animated Video!
What is a public health laboratory? Hopefully this will help answer that question. If you cannot see the video below, click here. Thanks to Digital…
Nothing New: Sequestration Poses Serious Risk to Public Health
By Peter Kyriacopoulos, Senior Director of Public Policy, APHL Congress' frustration over its inability to effectively manage federal spending and the impact of that spending…
September is Newborn Screening Awareness Month
Each year public health laboratories test over 97% of the four million babies born in the United States for genetic and inherited disorders. Because of…
Japanese and US Public Health Labs: Not So Far Apart
By Jody DeVoll, Director of Strategic Communications, APHL The distance between the US mainland and Japan is over 6,800 miles (close to 11,000 kilometers), so…
APHL Annual Meeting Day 1
Climate Change & Public Health: So Much More than Drowning Polar Bears Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH, and Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, of the two UWs…
Building and Sustaining an Efficient Laboratory through the Laboratory Efficiencies Initiative
This week is National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week and National Environmental Laboratory Professionals Week. APHL is honoring the many individuals working public health and environmental laboratories around the world. Stay…
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