Association of Public Health Laboratories

Enhancing Public Health laboratory capabilities & increasing capacity (ecic) from july 1, 2020 through june 30, 2025 funded through the centers for disease control & prevention. The Association of Public Health Laboratories, Inc. (aphl) strengthens the Public Health laboratory system by promoting quality Public Health practice, improving the Public Health infrastructure, and strengthening the Public Health laboratory system in developing a well-trained workforce. Aphl also works to address leadership and other issues as it relates to staffing in the highest levels of Public Health Laboratories. This program also ensures that aphl can serve as the clearinghouse of information by, about, and for the Public Health Laboratories.

Other federal awards:the Health resources and services administration (hrsa) cooperative agreements to aphl supports the newborn screening technical assistance and evaluation program, a national newborn screening resource center designed to provide data, technical assistance, and training to newborn screening programs and assist states with quality improvement initiatives. It functions with the goal of improving outcomes for newborns by facilitating newborn screening initiatives and programmatic outcomes to improve the overall quality of the newborn screening system.the food and drug administration (fda) cooperative agreements to aphl works to continue building competency-based integrated training for regulatory laboratory scientists, workshops, and educational resources to Laboratories seeking iso/iec 17025 accreditation, support fda's genometrakr network, and improve the sharing of food testing data via fda's elexnet platform.

Global health:in 2016 aphl received the strengthening Public Health Laboratories internationally (sphli) cooperative agreement to advocate for, shape the development of, and provide technical and management assistance to foster national Public Health laboratory systems held to international standards, led by a strong national Public Health reference laboratory and supported by tiered laboratory services. In sept 2020 aphl received the global Health security partnerships: expanding and improving Public Health laboratory strategies and systems cooperative agreement for protecting and improving Health globally: building and strengthening Public Health impact, systems, capacity and security. Aphl also has a cooperative agreement to support the achievement of the global Health security (ghs) targets in kenya that focus on protecting and improving Health globally through regional, national, and local partnerships. Also, we continue to receive pepfar funding for only select countries: mozambique & ghana.

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