The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) is a national professional association that represents public health laboratories and works to strengthen laboratory systems in the United States and globally. Its mission is to promote the value and contributions of public health laboratories and improve public health laboratory systems and practices.
Public health laboratory policy, disease surveillance and testing, laboratory preparedness and response, workforce development, scientific and professional standards, and advocacy for funding and support of public health laboratory systems.
Primarily membership dues, grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements, including federal public health funding.
State, local, territorial, and federal public health laboratories; CDC and other public health partners; APHL board and member laboratory leaders.
non-profit professional association
