Lab Culture Ep. 21: 2019 Year in Review
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…
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Lab Culture Ep. 12: Bitten by the public health bug — How I found my lab niche
The people who work in public health laboratories make a difference in your community daily. In this third episode, members of the Emerging Leader Program…
Lab Culture Ep. 9: What is the APHL Emerging Leader Program?
What is the Emerging Leader Program (ELP)? APHL staff, Pandora Ray and Kajari Shah, share how the ELP got its start and how it has…
Leading the Zika relay race and other presidential priorities for 2017
By A. Christian Whelen, PhD, D(ABMM), laboratory director, Hawaii Department of Health State Laboratories; president, APHL Board of Directors Hau`oli Makahiki Hou (“Happy New Year”…
APHL/CDC Laboratory Fellowship Program is Back!
After a brief hiatus due to funding, the APHL/CDC fellowship program is back! Formerly known as the Emerging Infectious Disease (EID) fellowships, the newly reinstated…
Discovering the Link Between Environmental Health and Public Health
April 20-26 is Laboratory Professionals Week! This year APHL is focusing on environmental health and the laboratorians who work to detect the presence of contaminants in both people…
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…
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…
The track to becoming a public health laboratory director
By Michelle Landes, Ph.D., APHL/CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) Laboratory Research Fellow at the Tennessee Department of Health As a recent graduate of a microbiology doctoral…