FELLOWS
Presenting, Graduating, Incoming:
APHL Fellows Develop Leadership Skills
by Heather Roney, MA, manager, Fellowship Programs
APHL offers fellowship programs to
introduce young scientists to careers
in public health laboratory science and
provide the technical expertise and
experience to fill permanent positions
in a public health laboratory upon
completion of the program. To take this
career development a step further, APHL
convened the first APHL Fellow Leadership
Training in Silver Spring, MD from April
29-May 2, 2019. The training provided
hands-on, experience-based learning to
develop and enhance fellows’ leadership
skills, which are crucial to their current
and future success in public health.
APHL’s current and recent fellows were
also well represented at APHL 2019 in St.
Louis. Several presented posters on work
completed during their fellowship terms.
Graduating Bioinformatics and AR fellows
were recognized and presented with
certificates at the awards breakfast during
APHL 2019.
APHL is pleased to announce several
new groups of fellows starting their
assignments:
• Two new Infectious Diseases Laboratory
Fellows recently began year-long
assignments at the New York City
Public Health Laboratory and the New
York State Department of Health.
• The Antimicrobial Resistance
Laboratory Fellowship accepted 12
fellows for the 2019 class. In addition
to the seven regional laboratories of
the Antibiotic Resistance Laboratory
Network, other host laboratories
include CDC, the State Hygienic
Laboratory at the University of Iowa,
the Indiana Public Health Laboratory,
the Michigan Bureau of Laboratories
and Virginia’s Division of Consolidated
Laboratory Services. The fellow working
in the Michigan laboratory will work
exclusively on multi-drug resistant
tuberculosis.
APHL 2019 AR Fellows (l-r): Bradley Craft, Jessica Plemmons,
Abby Hoffman and Nadine Peinvoich
• There will be 10 Bioinformatics Fellows
in the 2019-2020 class. Four will be
placed at CDC and six in state public
health laboratories in California, Iowa,
Massachusetts, New York, Virginia and
Wisconsin.
AR and Bioinformatics Fellows were recognized at APHL 2019
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