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

6 days 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 week 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

Public Health Laboratory Appreciation Month Art Contest: Unleash Your Creativity

2 weeks ago

Cartoon drawing of microbes with silly faces.

New Lab Matters: The true promise of metagenomics

2 weeks ago

Lab Matters Summer 2021

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

3 weeks ago

Team members from the Florida Bureau of Public Health Laboratories pose wearing masks holding a sign that says "End Overdose."

Celebrate Public Health Laboratory Appreciation Month 2021 with APHL

1 month ago

Graphic for Public Health Laboratory Appreciation Month showingFlat Labby wearing a cape.

How public health laboratories can track and improve climate change effects

1 month ago

Scientist taking a sample from algae-covered body of water.

Wastewater tracking provides warning signs of local COVID-19 burden

2 months ago

Three scientists work on wastewater testing in the Wyoming Public Health Laboratory.

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

Lab scientist performing test

APHL Announces Third Cohort of Newborn Screening Systems Quality...

Iowa Parents’ Perspectives: Newborn screening truly saved their babies’ lives

Opportunities to enhance newborn screening follow-up exist and improve outcomes

Strengthening the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel

Environmental Health

Team members from the Florida Bureau of Public Health Laboratories pose wearing masks holding a sign that says "End Overdose."

The Convergence of the Opioid Crisis and COVID-19: A Silent...

How public health laboratories can track and improve climate change effects

Wastewater tracking provides warning signs of local COVID-19 burden

How has COVID-19 created challenges for pediatric lead testing?

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

Securing public health data in the age of COVID-19

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

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

COVID-19 exposure notifications expand among public health community

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