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News from APHL Laboratory Fellowship Programs
By Heather Roney, MA, fellowship program manager
APHL has completed recruitment of fellows and host laboratories for the 2017 Antimicrobial Resistance, Bioinformatics, and Infectious Diseases Fellowship Programs. We look forward to reviewing all applications and interviewing finalists for these programs. Fellows are expected to start their assignments in APHL member laboratories and CDC laboratories in the summer.
Updates from the Environmental Public Health Laboratory Fellows
• Maria del Rosario Amado Sierra started her fellowship at the California Department of Public Health Laboratory in July 2016. She will increase the lab’ s biomonitoring capabilities by establishing a screening or master method for representative semi-volatile organic compounds from the Biomonitoring California Designated Chemical List that could be present in urine.
• Mitchell Popko began his fellowship at the South Dakota Public Health Laboratory in August 2016. His work includes bench rotations for the four environmental conditions currently on the South Dakota list of reportable diseases: elevated blood lead, acute pesticide illness, carbon monoxide poisoning and silicosis.
See our website for more information about APHL’ s laboratory fellowship programs. www. aphl. org / fellowships
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