APHL provides resources for laboratories to aid in their surveillance and testing of infectious diseases. Here you will find online learning activities, training materials and other tools intended to assist international public health laboratories. APHL is not able to offer any continuing education credits for these activities. If you are based in the US and looking for courses offered by APHL for CEUs please proceed to the
APHL Learning Center.
General Learning
On-Demand Activities
This learning activity consists of three modules that focus on the pre-analytical phase of the specimen handling lifecycle. Module one covers specimen labeling upon collection, module two covers transport and accessioning, and module three goes into more detail on accessioning by discussing laboratory data management. Available in English and French. Approximate time to complete course is 1 hour (~20 minutes per module); certificate of completion provided.
This learning activity is offered in two formats: an online version and a version to deliver your own in-person workshop. Each format covers the same topics: overview of the scientific writing process; manuscript preparation and manuscript revision. Available in English, French and Spanish; certificate of completion provided for online version.
Other Resources
The APHL Packaging and Shipping Toolkit is a collection of instructional materials adapted from APHL packaging and shipping trainings. This resource does not confer IATA certification.
Influenza Resources
These training materials consist of didactic lectures, group exercises and a case study designed to facilitate a multi-sectoral discussion of a response to the detection of influenza virus of pandemic potential in poultry and human populations.
Bacterial Meningitis Resources
Standard Operating Procedures
This manual contains standard operating procedures for the identification and characterization of bacterial meningitis pathogens from cerebrospinal fluid by culture. Available in English and French.
On Demand Activities
These recordings are of a live training given over the course of six days in September 2021. The videos include didactic lectures designed to introduce quality management systems and inform laboratorians of best practices to assure quality in laboratory processes. Available in English and French.
This course is separated into three modules that cover biosafety and good laboratory practices, transporting and handling specimens, and examining specimens. Available in English and French.
These recordings are of a live training given over the course of four days in September 2024. The videos include lectures on laboratory data management, accessioning, data privacy, confidentiality and security as well as topics on Microsoft Excel including data cleaning, formulas and functions and tables and graphs. Available in English and French.
Yellow Fever Virus On Demand Activity
These modules demonstrate how to use the Yellow Fever MAC-HD ELISA Test Kit to detect immunoglobulin M antibodies to yellow fever virus, including how to set up and conduct the ELISA, calculation demonstrations and results analysis. Available in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.
Syphilis On Demand Activity
This learning activity will describe the intended use of the manual Rapid Plasma Reagin, or RPR, procedure and then describe and demonstrate how to perform testing (both qualitative and semi-quantitative). The course will also describe interpretation of results, reporting and additional testing considerations. This activity is intended for bench level laboratorians.