Bio-Buzz Words and CDC’s Select Agents Program
By Christopher Chadwick, MS, Specialist, Public Health Preparedness and Response, APHL In the bio world, scientists throw around several words that tend to confuse people:…
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Nothing New: Sequestration Poses Serious Risk to Public Health
By Peter Kyriacopoulos, Senior Director of Public Policy, APHL Congress' frustration over its inability to effectively manage federal spending and the impact of that spending…
Improving Outbreak Response with FoodCORE: an Introduction to Food Safety Success Stories
By Jessica A. Monmaney, Senior Technician, Food Safety and Infectious Diseases, APHL A few months ago, you may have heard about an ongoing and growing Salmonella outbreak.…
What We’re Reading — A Month of Blog Posts
As you probably know, this month has been both National Preparedness Month and Newborn Screening Awareness Month. And as you may have noticed, our blog…
National Preparedness Month and Serendipity
By Jim Garrow, Guest Blogger Jim is the Operations and Logistics Manager for the Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness Program at the Philadelphia Department of…
System Built for Responding to Bioterrorism Confirms Plague in Colorado Girl
By Larry Sater, MS BT/CT Coordinator, Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Laboratory Services Division When the Laboratory Response Network (LRN) was established in…
My Path To Public Health Preparedness and Response
By Christopher Chadwick, MS, Senior Specialist, Public Health Preparedness and Response, APHL This month is National Preparedness Month. Follow APHL on our blog and our…
Are you ready? September is National Preparedness Month
Did you know that September is National Preparedness Month? People around the nation are renewing their efforts to increase awareness of emergency preparedness in all…
Preparedness and Politics in Florida: All in a Day’s Work
By Chris N Mangal, MPH, Director of Public Health Preparedness and Response, APHL; Rick France, PhD, MPH, Chemical Threat Coordinator, Bureau of Public Health Laboratories…
APHL Members Take to the Hill
By Annie Carlin, Senior Specialist, Public Policy, APHL It’s March! Federal budget information is coming out fast and furiously. First we had the President’s Budget…