2 President ’ s Message 3 CEO ’ s Message

Environmental Health 10 Biomonitoring and Environmental

Justice

12 Wastewater Surveillance for More than SARS-CoV-2

Food Safety

13 Improving Information Sharing for Cyclospora cayetanensis

From the Bench 14 Collaborations Yield Success in North

Carolina

Global Health 16 Infection Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases in Vietnam

17 NGS Expansion and Capacity Building in Kenya for COVID-19 and Beyond

Industry Matters

18 Leveraging Genomics and Automation to Address Rise in Multi-drug Resistant Bacteria Outbreaks

20 What ’ s Next for Respiratory Diagnostic Testing

Infectious Diseases 21 Public Health Laboratories Respond to

Familiar Avian Influenza Threat

Informatics 22 How to LOINC ^® and SNOMED ^® in

Pandemic Times

23 Building an Informatics Community

Public Health Preparedness & Response 24 The Future of Real-time PCR in the

LRN-B

25 Maintaining the Biosafety and Biosecurity Workforce Post- COVID-19

Membership 26 APHL 2022 : Where Laboratory Science and Public Health Meet ( In-person and Virtually )

Fellows

28 APHL Receives Record Number of Applications for 2022 Fellowship Program

4 The COVID-19 Endemic : Building Strong Surveillance Systems in Public Health Laboratories

Public health laboratories across the United States were consumed by COVID-19 diagnostic testing in the pandemic ’ s early months . But after clinical laboratories began to do most of the testing , and as more people tested themselves at home with rapid antigen tests , public health laboratories shifted from diagnostic to surveillance testing . Nearly two and a half years into the pandemic , public health laboratories are developing new surveillance systems , taking advantage of new equipment and staff , and improving programs based on lessons learned from COVID-19 .

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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 .

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Gynene Sullivan , MA , editor Karen Klinedinst , art director David Fouse , advisor

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APHL 2021-2022 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Denise Toney , PhD , HCLD ( ABB ), president Daphne Ware , PhD , president-elect Godfred Masinde , PhD , MBA , HCLD ( ABB ), secretary-treasurer Michael Pentella PhD , D ( ABMM ), member-at-large Scott Shone , PhD , HCLD ( ABB ), member-at-large Timothy Southern , PhD , member-at-large

Sally Flowers , PhD , associate institutional member representative

Sanjib Bhattacharyya , PhD , local institutional member representative

Megan Crumpler , PhD , local institutional member representative

Grace Kubin , PhD , past president Scott Becker , MS , ex officio , chief executive officer , APHL