Apr 25, 2018
Public health laboratories do a great deal of work that impacts the daily lives of everyone in America. Do you know exactly how much they’re doing? The first episode produced by members of the Emerging Leader Program cohort 10 looks at some of the work performed by public health lab scientists.
(*indicates ELP cohort 10 member)
Water Quality Testing
Interviewer: *Amanda Hughes, program manager of ambient air quality monitoring, State Hygienic Lab at the University of Iowa
Experts:
Michael Schueller, assistant director of operations, State Hygienic
Lab at the University of Iowa
Nancy Hall, program manager, Environmental Microbiology, State
Hygienic Lab at the University of Iowa
Water quality testing at the State Hygienic Lab at the University of Iowa
Alcohol Testing
Interviewer: *Gitika Panicker, microbiologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Expert: Laura Bailey, director, Office of Alcohol Testing, Arkansas State Public Health Laboratory
Alcohol testing at the Arkansas State Public Health Laboratory
Influenza Testing
Interviewer: *Shondra Johnson, laboratory information management system administrator, Missouri State Public Health Laboratory
Expert: Jessica Bauer, molecular unit manager, Missouri State Public Health Laboratory
Seasonal influenza testing at the Missouri State Public Health Laboratory
Bioterrorism
Interviewer: Avi Singh, food lab lead microbiologist, Washington State Public Health Laboratory
Expert: *Denny Russell, bioterrorism coordinator, Washington State Public Health Laboratory
Foodborne Outbreak Linked to Flour
Interviewer: *Rebecca Lindsey, Whole Genome Sequence Project lead, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Experts:
Heather A. Carleton, bioinformatics team lead, National Center
for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC)
Samuel J. Crowe, National Outbreak Reporting System team lead,
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
E. coli outbreak linked to flour (CDC)
Shiga Toxin–Producing E. coli Infections Associated with Flour