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

October 5, 2021

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

September 1, 2021

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

How public health laboratories can track and improve climate change effects

August 11, 2021

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

Wastewater tracking provides warning signs of local COVID-19 burden

August 4, 2021

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