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​Training Needs Assessments (TNAs) are a systematic process to evaluate and identify training needs and the best solutions. This is to ensure that training programs and resources are tailored to address specific gaps in knowledge, skills and competencies, ultimately leading to enhanced performance, professional growth and a resilient workforce.​

APHL Real-time Training Needs Assessment

Launched in May 2025, the real-time TNA is APHL's new way to listen, learn and create value through a very brief survey that laboratory leaders and professionals can complete to share what they need for training, as they need it. The inputs directly shape future APHL training offerings and resources. They also help APHL refine and share valuable resources that may have been missed. Results from this assessment are featured in a dynamic real-time dashboard below. 
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Take the survey now: APHL Training Needs Assessment​

Dashboard

This interactive dashboard provides a real-time feed from APHL's Real-time Training Needs Assessment (TNA) survey conducted across the states and territories. It is designed to help members, partners and decision-makers visualize and analyze training needs at a glance.

You can use the dashboard below to:

  • Explore territories and statewide results
  • Filter by region, program area, year or generation
  • Identify priority areas for workforce development

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2023/2024 APHL Training Needs Assessment 

APHL launched a new series of TNAs in September 2023, focused on the technical and scientific skills of laboratory professionals. The assessments were conducted through brief and easy-to-complete surveys with the objective of identifying the most urgent and essential needs, prioritizing what resources are needed, and identifying the best avenues to make those available. Recognizing the challenge of reaching every individual laboratory staff and managing responses for this larger set of surveys, APHL targeted program managers and supervisors to complete the assessments on behalf of their staff. 

Concurrently, APHL engaged in identifying training needs for skills in leadership essentials, which was launched in January 2024. This survey targeted individual laboratory staff across the membership, with additional promotion through the new Laboratory Leaders of Today program, Emerging Leaders Program​ and their alumni, and the Regional Consortia across the United States. 

APHL utilizes the findings to enhance and adapt its training offerings and further augment its support for its valued members. 

​APHL aimed to conduct two T​NAs each quarter and you can access the summary reports on this page:


​Historical Training Needs Assessment Reports​

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​Learn More

If you are ​​interested in learning more about the 2023 APHL TNA, please contact Lorelei Kurimski, senior director of Quality Systems and Analytics, at lorelei.kurimski@ap​hl.org​