7 times public health preparedness proved critical
Our nation’s public health system responds to emergencies such as natural disasters, infectious disease outbreaks, bioterrorism attacks and more both domestically and globally. There’s no…
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2016 Annual Meeting — Day 1
Today APHL kicked-off our largest annual meeting yet! We are thrilled to be in Albuquerque, New Mexico with over 600 public health laboratory leaders and partners from around…
CDC Emergency Operations Center: Always on Alert
By Tyler Wolford, senior specialist, Laboratory Response Network, APHL Positioned among administrative offices, high containment laboratories and extensive corridors at the US Centers for Disease…
APHL joins partners in Sierra Leone to strengthen lab capacity in Ebola’s wake
This week a team of APHL staff and consultants traveled to Freetown, Sierra Leone where they will join US federal and Sierra Leonean partners to…
September 30, 2014: As Ebola Arrived, the Texas Public Health Lab was Ready
This post was originally written for From The Lab Bench on October 2, 2014. ________ By Michelle M. Forman, senior media specialist, APHL The world…
APHL’s Top 10 Blog Posts of 2014
Wow, this has been quite a year for public health. Vaccine preventable disease outbreaks, MERS-CoV, chikungunya, EV-D68, and Ebola on top of the usual critical food…
TIME’s 2014 Person of the Year: Recognizing the Ebola Fighting Laboratorians
By Chris N. Mangal, MPH, director, Public Health Preparedness and Response, APHL This year saw the deadliest outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, specifically in…
Public Health and Freedom: Reflecting on Berlin, AIDS and Ebola
By Scott J. Becker, executive director, APHL Twenty-five years ago I was huddled by a radio listening to the BBC broadcaster tell of the fall…
For Global Handwashing Day, the ABCs of Washing Your Hands
Did you know that today, October 15, is Global Handwashing Day? It's true! Even without a designated day, proper hand washing should always be a…
In US, Massive Effort to Detect and Respond to Ebola Already Underway
By Tyler Wolford, MS, Specialist, Laboratory Response Network, APHL Our curiosity and fears have been running wild since the 2014 Ebola* outbreak in West Africa…