Research

The development of a Research Agenda for APHL represents an engagement in a larger discussion of the public health laboratory’s role in the public health system. In completing the first step, APHL has created a foundation for becoming a more proactive organization. As a part of this process we gained insights into what our members, partners and stakeholders see as the "big questions" facing public health laboratories as well as public health.

The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) will fund recipients (APHL Members) to implement innovative projects which help to define and assess quality public health laboratory practice, systems and services.  Topics were identified by APHL laboratory leaders as areas of importance to public health laboratories. The examples listed on the application page are there to illustrate projects that could be developed as a proposal; they are not the only priority projects that will be considered. Laboratories are encouraged to create or further develop partnerships with other public health agencies, academia or other types of laboratories to complete or carry out the projects.