LAB MATTERS
summer 2018 | contents
COLUMNS Newborn Screening
2 24 NewSTEPs Hosts Newborn Screening
National Meetings
President’s/Executive Director’s
Message
Industry Matters
25 A Bold Proposition: Taking a
Prototypical Approach to Global Lab
Design
SECTIONS
Environmental Health
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Leaders in Addressing Environmental
Health Issues: MN and WA Host
System Meetings
Partner Profile
12 15 Minutes With Dr. Mary Travis
Bassett
From the Bench
14 Indiana and Wisconsin Respond
to Synthetic Cannabinoid
Contamination
Training & Workforce Development
26 A Decade of Excellence: Celebrating
10 Years of APHL’s Emerging Leader
Program
27 Pasadena Middle School Students
Become “Toxic Crusaders” for a Day
Fellows
28 Endings and Beginnings: APHL
Fellowship Programs Update
Membership
Global Health
16 Increasing Viral Load Testing in
Zimbabwe from 3% to 46% in a Year
Quality Systems
18 L-SIP Increases Assessment,
Reassessment Numbers
Public Health Preparedness
and Response
20 Supporting and Promoting Biosafety
Worldwide
30 Protecting Public Health in the
Roughrider State
32 Home on the Range: Wyoming
Department of Agriculture, Analytical
Services Lab
34 APHL Annual Meeting 2018:
Public Health in Pasadena
Digital Extra
37 Annual Meeting Poster Abstracts
21 APHL Biosafety Peer Network
Strengthens Connections
22 Sharing the Future: Data Exchange in
the Laboratory Response Network
23 APHL Updates Resources and
Outreach for Sentinel Clinical
Laboratories
APHL LAB MATTERS STAFF APHL BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Gynene Sullivan, MA, editor Joanne Bartkus, PhD, D(ABMM), president
Karen Klinedinst, art director Grace E. Kubin, PhD, president-elect
Jody DeVoll, MAT, advisor
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FEATURE
Elevating the Role of PHLs in
Reducing Health Disparities
Healthy People 2020 defines health
equity as “the attainment of the
highest level of health for all people.”
And public health laboratories
have been indirectly addressing
health disparities as long as they
have existed. Yet there is now a
growing effort to more consciously
address the concept of health equity.
Instead of waiting for residents
to ask for services, more public
health laboratories are thinking
critically about the role they play in
providing services to underserved
communities, and are reaching out
to other public health partners in
new collaborations.
Bill Whitmar, MS, secretary-treasurer
To submit an article for consideration, contact
Gynene Sullivan, editor, at [email protected].
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) works to
strengthen laboratory systems serving the public’s health in the US
and globally. APHL’s member laboratories protect the public’s health
by monitoring and detecting infectious and foodborne diseases,
environmental contaminants, terrorist agents, genetic disorders in
newborns and other diverse health threats.
Richard S. Steece, PhD, D(ABMM), member-at-large
Denise Marie Toney, PhD, HCLD(ABB), member-at-large
Scott J. Zimmerman, DrPH, MPH, HCLD(ABB), member-
at-large
Maria Lucia Ishida, PhD, associate institutional member
representative
Tamara Theisen, MT(ASCP), local institutional member
representative
8515 Georgia Avenue, Suite 700
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
Web:
240.485.2745
240.485.2700
[email protected]
www.aphl.org
Mark Wade, local institutional member representative
Ewa King, PhD, immediate past president
Scott J. Becker, MS, ex officio, executive director, APHL
PublicHealthLabs
@APHL
APHL.org
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