LAB MATTERS
WINTER 2020 | CONTENTS
Columns
2 President’s Message
3 Chief Executive Officer’s Message
Departments
Public Health Preparedness and
Response
Informatics
22 Moving to the Cloud Signals
a Bright Future for Public Health
Data Exchange
4 Using vDOT to Strengthen TB Control
in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin
Islands
5 Putting COOP on the Table: California
Tests its Ability to Respond During
Fires
6 Restoring Core Public Health Services
to Ensure Public Safety
Newborn Screening
24 The Impact of Bioinformaticians in
Newborn Screening Systems
Workforce
25 Emerging Leaders Develop Guide to
the Unpredictable
Environmental Health
14 Maine Proposes New Drinking
Water Testing Method Using LRN-C
Equipment Communications
Global Health Membership
15 GLLP Partners Meet in Rome to
Discuss Updates
16 Spanning Borders for a Cohesive
Public Health Approach 28 Aiming Upward in Marion County,
Indiana
30 Waterwise: The Nebraska Public
Health Environmental Laboratory
Infectious Diseases Fellows
18 AR Lab Network Supports Response to
Candida auris Outbreak in California
19 Back to School: Tracking Adenovirus
Outbreaks Impacting College
Campuses and Other Institutions
20 CDC’s Yellow Fever Diagnostic
Kit Could Mean Faster Outbreak
Response, Fewer Deaths 32 APHL Fellows Thrive in Host Labs
and Beyond
APHL LAB MATTERS STAFF APHL BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Gynene Sullivan, MA, CAPM, editor Grace E. Kubin, PhD, president
Karen Klinedinst, art director Bill Whitmar, MS, president-elect
26 Giving Data Its Due: Data
Visualization in PowerPoint
Jody DeVoll, MAT, advisor
8 Unsustainable: The Rise and Fall
of Public Health Funding
According to data published by the advocacy
group Trust for America’s Health, there is
a $4.5 billion gap between current funding
levels and what is needed to achieve “an
adequate level of public health protection”
nationwide. Even though budget news
for FY2020 is better than it has been, it
continues a worrying, long-term trend of
public health underfunding and public
health laboratories being forced to draw
on short-term crisis funding to maintain
day-to-day activities.
Daphne Ware, PhD, secretary-treasurer
Richard S. Steece, PhD, D(ABMM), member-at-large
To submit an article for consideration, contact
Gynene Sullivan, editor, at [email protected].
Denise Marie Toney, PhD, HCLD(ABB), member-at-large
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.
PublicHealthLabs
FEATURE
Anthony “Tony” Tran, DrPH, MPH, D(ABMM),
member-at-large
Maria Lucia Ishida, PhD, associate institutional member
representative
Megan Crumpler, PhD, local institutional member
representative
8515 Georgia Avenue, Suite 700
Silver Spring, MD 20910 Mark Wade, local institutional member representative
Phone: 240.485.2745
Fax: 240.485.2700
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.aphl.org Scott J. Becker, MS, ex officio, chief executive officer, APHL
@APHL
Joanne Bartkus, PhD, D(ABMM), immediate past president
APHL.org
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