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Summer 2025

APHL’s Twinning Initiative Is Strengthening Global Laboratory Systems and Practice
Four public health laboratory directors convened during a session at the APHL 2025 Annual Conference to discuss their experiences twinning with public health laboratories throughout the world. APHL’s Laboratory Twinning Initiative pairs US state and local public health laboratories with national reference laboratories in other countries. The laboratories, who are paired based on expertise and need, work together in a peer-to-peer relationship that increases the knowledge of both parties and builds a global public health network.
AIMS is Revolutionizing How Laboratory Data is Shared to Help Save Lives
Timely laboratory test results can mean the difference between life and death. That’s why the APHL Informatics Messaging Services (AIMS) platform is a critical piece of the nation’s public health system. It serves as a hub to securely and quickly share vital public health data.

Lots of data.

Today, the essential health data that could save the life of a newborn in the NICU, detect a tumor in a loved one at an early stage or protect the US population from an emerging threat can be shared in near real time. And by investing in the latest technologies and centralizing these intermediary services into a single platform instead of replicating efforts across every public health agency, AIMS saves money, time and lives.
How APHL and One Scientist are Helping Shape the Next Generation of Public Health Laboratory Professionals
Ori Roe is a research scientist at the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) and a passionate advocate for public health. Roe is trained in analytical chemistry, helping, for example, to analyze soil samples taken from locations impacted by wildfires, such as those that occurred recently in Los Angeles.

In addition to their laboratory duties, Roe—in collaboration with other DTSC staff and volunteers—has organized and developed the curriculum for DTSC’s student outreach program, Toxic Crusaders. As a member of APHL’s Public Health Laboratory Ambassadors Program, which promotes public health laboratory careers to students, Roe uses their knowledge of environmental health to shape the next generation of public health laboratory science professionals.

We caught up with Roe to learn more about their work and how they’re using outreach to build trust in science and government.

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Our Work Mega Menu	https://www.aphl.org/Lists/Mega Menu Story/DispForm.aspx?ID=2	Our Work Mega Menu	<div class="ExternalClass3018644464274CF1A442E6A7546F310E"><p>APHL is helping Zimbabwe to convert to viral load (VL) testing for monitoring of HIV patients. Below, the US Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Ambassador Nichols, vists Masvingo Provincial Laboratory.</p></div>	Our Work	<img alt="" src="/PublishingImages/US-Ambassador-Zimbabwe.JPG" style="BORDER:0px solid;" />
Your Resources Mega Menu	https://www.aphl.org/Lists/Mega Menu Story/DispForm.aspx?ID=3	Your Resources Mega Menu	<div class="ExternalClass1BF7DB5AC26D44A08CEFAE1E89BC7C71"><p>APHL helped 16 state newborn screening programs to implement one or more new disorders with $1,386,820 in direct funding.</p></div>	Your Resources	<img alt="" src="/PublishingImages/Baby%20-%20PHO_INF_MEIGS_2.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" />
Your Development	https://www.aphl.org/Lists/Mega Menu Story/DispForm.aspx?ID=4	Your Development	<div class="ExternalClassC1476CEF6CAA4C9A84B74137AA769F43"><p>Each year APHL partners with a public health lab to sponsor an event for local students. Here, Pasadena middle school students become “toxic crusaders” at the city’s environmental chemistry lab. </p></div>	Your Development	<img alt="" src="/PublishingImages/toxic_crusaders.JPG" style="BORDER:0px solid;" />
I Want To	https://www.aphl.org/Lists/Mega Menu Story/DispForm.aspx?ID=5	I Want To	<div class="ExternalClass6F92F0D3EF0C4D3083DEDA3F0D150994"><p>In collaboration with CDC, APHL sponsors multiple fellowships in diverse disciplines. Below, Infectious Disease Fellow Chelsea Carmen works at the bench.</p></div>	I Want To	<img alt="" src="/PublishingImages/ID-Fellow-ChelseaCarman.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" />

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