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APHL Fellowship Update:
Engaging the Next Generation of Fellows APHL Releases Three
Position Statements
by Heather Roney, MA, manager, Fellowship Programs by Nisha Quasba, specialist, Public Policy
APHL released three position statements
in 2018. They will be live for five years
and sunset in 2023.
• PHPR: Field Screening Kits and
Devices Must Work (*New* Position
Statement Format!)—APHL opposes
the use of federally unapproved
field-screening kits and devices
used to detect biological and
chemical warfare agents.
• Global Health: Improving Health
Outcomes by Strengthening
National Public Health Laboratory
Systems Globally—A fully
coordinated and integrated
National Public Health Laboratory
(NPHL) System is essential for
the surveillance, detection and
response to address public health
threats.
Antimicrobial Resistance Fellow Abby Hoffman works on Neisseria gonorrhoeae testing at the Texas State
Health Services Laboratory
APHL has completed recruitment for
its 2018 classes of Bioinformatics and
Antimicrobial Resistance (AR) Fellowship
Programs. We look forward to selecting
the fellows and host laboratories for the
coming program cycles.
Bioinformatics Fellows alumni Kevin
Libuit, Logan Fink and Sean Wang
played critical roles in developing
the curriculum for AMD Academy:
Intermediate Bioinformatics Training
for Microbiologists to be held in January
and May 2019 at the US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in
Atlanta. They will also serve as faculty
for the course. Libuit and his mentor
Denise Toney from the Virginia Division
of Consolidated Laboratory Services are
preparing a podcast about his experience
as an APHL fellow and the integration
of bioinformatics and sequencing into
public health laboratory science.
Three current AR fellows have been
accepted into CPEP-accredited
fellowships. CPEP fellowships are
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prestigious two-year programs accredited
by the American Society for Microbiology’s
Committee for Postgraduate Educational
Programs (CPEP). The fellows are:
• Global Health: Quality Systems for
Point of Care Testing—A Quality
Management System (QMS)
for point of care (POC) testing
including rapid diagnostic tests
(RDT) is needed to ensure that
testing performed in all settings is
of high quality globally. n
• Mimi Precit (Washington State
Department of Health Public Health
Laboratory) CPEP Fellowship: Medical
& Public Health Microbiology
Fellowship at the Children’s Hospital
of Los Angeles/University of Southern
California
• Eric Ransom (Antimicrobial Resistance
Coordination and Strategy Unit,
Division of Healthcare Quality
Promotion, CDC) CPEP Fellowship:
Medical & Public Health Microbiology
Fellowship at Washington University
• Emily Snavely (Wadsworth Center,
New York State Department of Health)
CPEP Fellowship: Medical Microbiology
Fellowship at the University of Utah,
ARUP (Associated Regional and
University Pathologists) Laboratories n
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