What is the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)?
We are a national nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting public health laboratories in support of national and global objectives. We do this in several ways. For one, we act as a link between the public health labs and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We also help the public health labs communicate amongst each other so that they can learn from each other. Additionally, we provide public health laboratorians with continuing education resources and we give them recommendations about best practices in public health so that they can excel in their field. What is your position at APHL? I am a course logistics assistant. This means that I work in our Department of Continuing Education and Training to ensure that laboratorians have access to the information we post online about our continuing education training courses. We offer a number of courses for which laboratorians receive credit: teleconferences, webinars, hands-on lab workshops, seminars, and on-demand pr
