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New Lab Matters: Public health laboratory leadership in the 21st century

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit public health laboratories everywhere with an unforgiving combination of intense demands, logistical challenges and heightened scrutiny from officials and the…

New Lab Matters: The new world order of COVID-19

September 30, 2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic has become one of the largest defining events of 2020 for public health. A hyperfocus on testing has thrust public health laboratories…

Beyond COVID-19: How public health laboratories keep us safe every day

June 3, 2020

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by Jody DeVoll, advisor, Communications, APHL Public health laboratories have figured so prominently in media coverage of coronavirus (COVID-19) testing that one might assume that…

Responding to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) emerging in Wuhan, China

January 24, 2020

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By Scott J. Becker, executive director, APHL As news spreads of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) emerging in Wuhan, China, we at APHL are taking…

Lab Culture Ep. 21: 2019 Year in Review

December 16, 2019

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Are we already at the end of 2019?! While to many of us it felt like the year flew by, APHL staff, members and partners…

APHL’s newborn screening program goes global

November 18, 2019

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Outside of the US and other resource-rich nations, few countries have the capital, infrastructure and human resources required to sustain a newborn screening program. Despite…

Lab Culture Extra: Progress in Sierra Leone

August 21, 2019

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APHL has a long history of involvement in Sierra Leone where we’ve provided technical assistance to strengthen the nation’s laboratory system for over a decade.…

Nigerian malaria researcher joined the Milwaukee laboratory for a cultural exchange beyond the bench

May 15, 2019

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Nearly two years ago, a malaria researcher named Dr. Abel Olusola “Sola” Idowu left Lagos, Nigeria and emerged into the frosty, winter air of Milwaukee,…

Improving newborn sickle cell screening in Africa: ‘We can affect change there just like we did in the US’

September 21, 2018

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by Kim Krisberg In the US, nearly all children born with sickle cell disease survive into adulthood. Across the globe in sub-Saharan Africa, more than…

APHL: President Trump’s FY 2019 budget request is “disheartening and disappointing”

February 13, 2018

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The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) is very concerned about the decline in federal funding for public health functions such as detection, surveillance and…