Social Media As a Tool for Real Time Tracking of Diseases?
By Sikha Singh, MHS, Senior Specialist, Laboratory Response Network Recently CNN.com featured an article titled Using social media for disease surveillance, providing examples of real life breakouts...
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Using Technology to Combat HIV/AIDS in Swaziland
This week is National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week and National Environmental Laboratory Professionals Week. APHL is honoring the many individuals working public health and environmental...
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One World. One Health… and the Vector at Our Back Door
You don’t have to explain to public health laboratorians that the health of humans, animals and the environment are inextricably linked. HIV/AIDS, SARS, 2009 H1N1, West Nile Virus: laboratorians know...
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Japanese and US Public Health Labs: Not So Far Apart
By Jody DeVoll, Director of Strategic Communications, APHL The distance between the US mainland and Japan is over 6,800 miles (close to 11,000 kilometers), so you might assume that their public health...
View ArticleGetting to Zero: Lab Scientists Fight HIV/AIDS in Africa
By APHL Global Health Program Over three decades have passed since the words “HIV” and “AIDS” became part of our everyday lexicon. Though we have yet to reach the United Nations’ goal of zero new HIV...
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My Global Experience as a Public Health Microbiologist
By Sally Liska, DrPH Being a public health microbiologist can mean more than just working at the lab bench helping diagnose communicable diseases or being involved in public health outbreak...
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APHL Belongs in South Sudan — It’s About Saving Lives
By Lucy Maryogo-Robinson, MPH, Director of Global Health, APHL Sometimes people ask, “Why does APHL do global health work?” Granted I hear this less often than I did five or ten years ago – public...
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Sochi? So What? Public and Environmental Health at the Winter Olympics
By Michael Heintz, MS, JD, senior specialist, environmental laboratories, APHL Hi. I’m Michael and I admit it: I’m a Winter Olympics fanatic. From learning new geography at the Opening Ceremonies, to...
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APHL Global Health: My Touchstone
by David Mills, PhD, Director, Scientific Laboratory Division, NM Department of Health It all began with a late afternoon phone call from my boss, asking if I had any interest in volunteering my time...
View ArticleAPHL Coaching Initiative Spans Continents
By Michelle M. Forman, senior specialist, media, APHL Andy Cannons was a member of APHL’s Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) Cohort III in 2011, an intensive year-long leadership development program for...
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APHL joins partners in Sierra Leone to strengthen lab capacity in Ebola’s wake
This week a team of APHL staff and consultants traveled to Freetown, Sierra Leone where they will join US federal and Sierra Leonean partners to launch a year-long project to support and strengthen the...
View ArticleAPHL is a proud partner in the Global Health Security Agenda
Today President Obama announced the United States and 30 other nations have committed to join together to achieve the targets of the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA). APHL is proud to be a key...
View ArticleSmall but mighty Zimbabwe lab team meets challenges in reaching HIV testing...
For decades, APHL has worked in more than 30 nations to train and support lab professionals fighting HIV/AIDS, often under agreements with CDC and the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief...
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One Health and the Global Health Security Agenda must go hand in hand
By Samantha Dittrich, manager, Global Health Security Agenda, APHL Did you know that most infectious diseases are caused by pathogens transferred between animals and humans? At least 75% of emerging...
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Zimbabwe makes significant strides in the fight against HIV/AIDS
From Zimbabwe’s first diagnosed case of HIV/AIDS in 1985 until 1997, the country’s health situation became increasingly dire: At the disease’s peak, 29% of the population was infected. Since then,...
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Laboratory twinning builds strong lab systems and relationships
By David Mills, PhD, retired director, Scientific Laboratory Division, New Mexico Department of Health When I first got involved in twinning, I had no idea that Halloween costumes would be part of the...
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From Paper to PC in Mozambique: Implementing Electronic Laboratory...
By Elizabeth Toure, senior specialist, Global Health, APHL, and Reshma Kakkar, manager, Global Health LIS, APHL Dr. Isabel Pinto, Director of the National Directorate of Medical Assistance (DNAM) at...
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Biorisk management is fundamental to global health security
By Samantha Dittrich, manager, Global Health Security Agenda, APHL Over the past 60 years, the number of new diseases per decade has increased nearly fourfold. Since 1980, the number of outbreaks per...
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Scaling-up viral load testing in Ghana is critical to stopping HIV
By Robyn Sagal, specialist, Global Health, APHL; Samantha Dittrich, manager, Global Health Security, APHL When HIV first struck Ghana in 1986, it didn’t adhere to global trends. There was a high...
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Lab Culture Ep. 7: APHL’s International Team Meeting
The APHL International Team Meeting allows for US-based APHL leadership and global health program staff and consultants working in-country to discuss organizational operations and key programmatic...
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