Category - 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 an unprecedented prenatal lead and mercury screening program

2 weeks ago

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 Epidemic, Overshadowed

2 months ago

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

How public health laboratories can track and improve climate change effects

2 months ago

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

Wastewater tracking provides warning signs of local COVID-19 burden

2 months ago

Dried blood spots used for lead testing

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

August 19, 2020

Lab Matters Spring 2020, Issue 2

New Lab Matters: Biosurveillance and the opioid epidemic

June 19, 2020

Person vaping

APHL EVALI response spurred by strong communication

April 13, 2020

Man vaping

CDC findings mark a breakthrough in investigation of lung injury associated with vaping

November 8, 2019

Stefan Saravia and Maureen Sullivan at the Minnesota Public Health Laboratory

Lab Culture Ep. 20: 20 Years of the Laboratory Response Network

October 17, 2019

Michelle Forman interviewing Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha.

Lab Culture Ep. 19: Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha- Storytelling and the Flint Water Crisis

June 13, 2019