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Social Media Ad Campaigns Successfully Recruit Newborn Screening Research Participants

7 days ago

Screenshots of social media ads that were part of a campaign to reach parents of babies with rare conditions.

APHL Celebrates 2021 Newborn Screening Award Winners

2 weeks ago

Graphic that says "APHL Newborn Screening Symposium 2021: Awards"

Newborn Screening Lessons Learned When Internet and Cell Service Went Down

2 weeks ago

Satellite view of Nashville, TN showing where the AT&T building was in relation to the explosion.

Lab Culture Ep. 26: How two New Jersey lab scientists launched an unprecedented prenatal lead and mercury screening program

3 weeks ago

The New Jersey prenatal lead and mercury screening team pose for a group photo.

The Exposure Notifications System’s one-year anniversary: Lessons learned and what’s ahead

3 weeks ago

A woman wearing a face mask looks at her phone.

Public Health Laboratory Appreciation Month: Celebration Wrap-up and Microbe Masterpiece Winners

3 weeks ago

Photos of the four Microbe Masterpieces art contest winners

New Public Health Laboratory Workforce Pipeline Project Receives Historic and Much-Needed $282 Million Investment

1 month ago

An APHL-CDC Fellow works under a hood in a laboratory as her supervisor looks on.

APHL: White House COVID-19 Action Plan is the right move at the right time

1 month ago

Quote testing remains an important tool in our toolbox. Robust public health laboratory testing, clinical laboratory testing and rapid testing are all critical to helping slow the pandemic. End quote

Infectious Diseases

During a 2021 APHL Annual Conference session, Scott Shone, PhD, director of the North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health, held up a mini poster that still hangs on his wall that says at the top “States Are Now In Charge of Testing.”

Pandemic regulatory challenges created public health laboratory...

Flu practically disappeared during COVID-19 pandemic

Detecting, Sequencing and Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 Virus Variants

APHL Welcomes Biden Administration’s Boost to COVID-19 Testing Strategy

Newborn Screening & Genetics

Screenshots of social media ads that were part of a campaign to reach parents of babies with rare conditions.

Social Media Ad Campaigns Successfully Recruit Newborn Screening...

APHL Celebrates 2021 Newborn Screening Award Winners

Newborn Screening Lessons Learned When Internet and Cell Service Went Down

APHL Announces Third Cohort of Newborn Screening Systems Quality Improvement Projects Awards

Environmental Health

The New Jersey prenatal lead and mercury screening team pose for a group photo.

Lab Culture Ep. 26: How two New Jersey lab scientists launched...

The Convergence of the Opioid Crisis and COVID-19: A Silent Epidemic, Overshadowed

How public health laboratories can track and improve climate change effects

Wastewater tracking provides warning signs of local COVID-19 burden

Public Health Preparedness

Bridging the gap between clinical and public health

How Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands rebuilt public health after catastrophic hurricanes

COVID-19 and biosafety: Perspectives and lessons learned from a public health laboratory

The importance of sustained federal funding for public health

Informatics

A woman wearing a face mask looks at her phone.

The Exposure Notifications System’s one-year anniversary:...

New Lab Matters: Securing public health data in the age of COVID-19

APHL enables public health reporting of Abbott’s BinaxNOW COVID-19 test results via the NAVICA app

Making Sense of the COVID-19 Data Story

Global Health

APHL's Sierra Leone team

Lab Culture Extra: Progress in Sierra Leone

Nigerian malaria researcher joined the Milwaukee laboratory for a cultural exchange beyond the bench

Improving newborn sickle cell screening in Africa: ‘We can affect change there just like we did in the US’

Lab Culture Ep. 7: APHL’s International Team Meeting

Food Safety

Preparing a salad in the kitchen

Five food safety tips to keep your family healthy

In Puerto Rico, a new molecular bacteriology lab allows better control of foodborne outbreaks

Lab Culture Ep. 4: Past, Present and Future of PulseNet

PulseNet key to solving 2010 E. coli outbreak linked to lettuce

Workforce & Professional Development

An APHL-CDC Fellow works under a hood in a laboratory as her supervisor looks on.

New Public Health Laboratory Workforce Pipeline Project Receives...

Public Health Laboratories Can Play Important Health Equity Role

APHL: Historic Investments Will Strengthen Public Health Laboratory Workforce

Lab Culture Ep. 24: In pursuit of diversity, equity and inclusion in the public health laboratory