Semi-Retired Public Health Laboratory Scientist; Retired Public Health Laboratory Director
Location: Baltimore, MD
Phone: 301-490-8977
Length of Time in Public Health:
Current Work Setting:
- Semi-retired public health laboratory scientist and retired public health laboratory director
Relationship Building Experience:
- I have been involved in developing an academic health department (AHD)
About Me:
Earlier in my career I served as a laboratory training coordinator, as Chairman of the National Registry of Microbiologists, and as a member of the American Society for Microbiology's Education Committee. Recently I have been serving as Chairman of the Association of Public Health Laboratories' (APHL) Workforce Development Committee, as a member of the Council on Linkages' AHD Workgroup, and as APHL's appointed representative to the Council on Linkages. Prior to retiring as a state laboratory director I participated in APHL's Global Health Program as a lecturer and by providing a public health laboratory practice site for scientists from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. I also served as a preceptor and mentor for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in public health laboratory science and practice.
About My Institution:
Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)
- Is a non-profit organization
- Represents over 800 members and employees
- Serves urban, rural, and suburban geographic areas
- Is currently working to support the formation of AHD partnerships
- Has relationships with AHD professions institutions through its standing committees and Association members for:
- Public health education/training
- Public health research
- Notes on AHD-related activities:
- The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) is a non-profit organization uniquely representing state and local public health environmental, agricultural and other public sector laboratories. APHL advocates for its laboratory and individual members through public policy campaigns that result in laboratory workforce and education funding opportunities. Many public laboratory directors and laboratorians participate in academic learning communities by serving as adjunct faculty, by providing laboratory practice and research sites, and by actively working to prime the pipeline that provides and supports the current and next generation of public laboratory scientists through both workforce research and development.