HIV Testing Where Ice Melts Fast: EID Fellow Reports from Botswana
By R. Suzanne Beard, PhD, Emerging Infectious Disease Research Fellow Dried blood spots (DBS), drops of blood collected to screen newborns for congenital disorders, are the…
Workforce & Professional Development
Life After the Military: Consider a Career in Public Health
By A. Christian Whelen, PhD, D(ABMM), State Laboratories Director, Hawaii Department of Health Aloha from the fiftieth state. Almost eight years ago, I hung up my uniform and joined…
Public Health Laboratory Internship: Keeping an Eye Out for Drug-Resistant Influenza
By Nikeshan Jeyakumar, PHASE Intern, Laboratories Division of Virology and Immunology, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Public health as a discipline derives its…
Are Girls Being Nipped in the STEM?
By Rohini G. Sandesara, APHL/CDC Training Fellow, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NCEZID, DVBD, Dengue Branch, Molecular Diagnostics and Research Laboratory On October 1,…
A Public Health Scientist’s Series of Fortunate Events
By Bonnie Rubin, Associate Director, State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa I trained as a clinical laboratory scientist, or medical technologist as it was called…
Would You Recommend the Laboratory Profession to a Young Person?
By Linette Granen, Director of Membership & Marketing, APHL This was a question recently posted to one of my LinkedIn groups’ discussion boards, and I realized…
Exciting New Laboratory Training Opportunities This Fall
By Beaker, Your Lab Training Partner Hi there! Beaker here again, your lab’s best friend! I want to alert you to some great APHL webinars coming up…
Dogs Ease Work Stress and Great Lab Continuing Education Does Too
By Beaker, Your Lab Training Partner I don’t know if you remember me, but I’m Beaker, APHL’s unofficial mascot for its laboratory training program. You…
Unlocking My Unselfish Gene
By Sharon Master, Biological Sciences Bureau Chief, Scientific Laboratory Division, New Mexico Department of Health If I were yanked off the street five years ago…
Into the Wild: Lab Edition
By Samantha Case, APHL/CDC EID Training Fellow, Arctic Investigations Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention It looks like a scene from one of the…