Lab Culture Ep. 11: What if there were no public health labs?
Maybe the saying is true: you don’t know what you had until it is gone. For the families in this episode, the absence of public…
infectious diseases
APHL: President Trump’s FY 2019 budget request is “disheartening and disappointing”
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…
Hurricane preparation and response resource list
Updated September 15, 2017 In the wake of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, public health laboratories in affected regions will be busy testing for potential environmental…
3 Zika tests explained
by Anne Gaynor, manager of HIV, hepatitis, STD and TB programs, APHL Public health laboratories around the US have been in the epicenter of Zika…
Fighting antimicrobial resistance requires clinical and public health response
By Kelly Wroblewski, director, Infectious Disease Programs, APHL They may be invisible to the naked eye and their names may be hard to pronounce, but…
APHL urged action on Zika but Congress didn’t listen
By Peter Kyriacopoulos, senior director of public policy, APHL On January 11, 2016, APHL first expressed concern about the public health implications of Zika virus…
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…
APHL’s top blog posts of 2015
As 2015 comes to a close, we’re taking a walk down memory lane. Public health headlines included Listeria in ice cream, the Animas River mine…
The Tenacity of Tuberculosis: MDR-TB
By William A. Murtaugh, MPH, Specialist, TB Program, APHL “Suddenly she stopped, clutched her throat and a wave of crimson blood ran down her breast……
Vector-borne disease vs chemicals in bug spray: Weighing the risks
By Michelle M. Forman, senior media specialist, APHL With hot and humid weather comes news of diseases spread by mosquitos and ticks, while we also…