LAB MATTERS
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COLUMNS Global Health
2 17 Strengthening the PHL System:
Twinning in Botswana
President’s and Executive
Director’s Message
18 Building Workforce Capacity to
Create Safer Labs in Ethiopia
SECTIONS
Infectious Diseases
3
New VPD Reference Center PCR Assay
to Rapidly Identify Measles Vaccine
Strain Now Available
From the Bench
9
CDC Launches Bioinformatics App
to Determine Sequence Type from
Legionella pneumophila NGS Data
20 APHL’s Global Health Team: Working
Together to Build Stronger, More
Resilient Lab Systems
Workforce
21 ELP Cohort 9 Project: Budget and
Finance for Lab Scientists
10 Alaska Puts NGS into Action for
Canine Parvovirus Outbreak
Environmental Health
12 Preventing History from Repeating:
The Evolution of Risk Assessments
Since 1918
22 Preparing for PFAS: An Emerging
Chemical Threat
24 New Jersey Uses Biomonitoring
and Environmental Data to Assess
Intervention Effectiveness
Public Health Preparedness
and Response
14 APHL Deploys Lab Assessment Team
to Puerto Rico
Membership
15 Florida Scientists Tackle Lab Biosafety
and Biosecurity
16 2017 APHL All-Hazards Survey:
A Year in Review
19 APHL Holds First ToT Session on
HIV/AIDS Diagnosis and Biological
Monitoring in DRC
26 The Results Are In!:
2017 Membership Survey
Member Spotlight
28 Urban Growth and Rural Tradition at
the Oregon PHL
30 Reinventing a Public Health
Laboratory in Riverside County
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FEATURE
100 Years of Influenza:
Will Public Health Be Ready
for the Next Pandemic?
In 1918, no one even knew for
sure that influenza was a viral
disease; but then, the field of public
health laboratory practice was
still in its infancy. One hundred
years later, public health is in a
much better place, but critical
preparedness gaps still persist.
Fellows
32 From Atlanta to France, APHL Fellows
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