Fantastic training by @aphl.org and @unmc.bsky.social (Dr. Shaun Cross) with Uganda CPHL on @nextstrain.org data viz for #mpox & #Ebola Sudan virus. The workshop brought together lab, epi, and IT staff—and by the end, they were building phylogenetic trees for other pathogens too! 🧬🌍 #GenomicEpi

Great week at #GLOWACON in Panama City hosted by EU_HERA. Honored to represent @aphl.org and discuss wastewater surveillance across LATAM. Exciting to align with partners like CeresNano and PAHO to advance WBE as a public health tool and pandemic early warning system.

We are hiring!!! @aphl.org Thailand Office has an opening for a Bioinformatician position (ON-SITE ONLY - please ignore the link preview title). Come work with us on exciting NGS projects to improve & protect the health and safety of the citizens of the world! careers-aphl.icims.com/jobs/1533/bi...

Great session at @aphl.org #IDLabCon on the backbone of genomic surveillance concurrent session! Great talks by @noahhullphd.bsky.social Sarah Preston Jie Lu and Eric Vaughn!

🚨 Consulting Opportunity: Wastewater-Based Surveillance Data Literacy Training See full details at: tinyurl.com/3fkzjn7j or lnkd.in/gEJ4qwMS (at the bottom of the page "GH003").

📢 Join @UABSOPH for Alumni Week 2025! 🌎✨ The Public Health Webinar Series is open to all! Explore Public Health in Healthcare, Global Health, Public Health & The Environment, and Public Health & Communities the week of March 4. 🔗 Register now: tinyurl.com/sophalumniseries25 #PublicHealth #UABSOPH

🚨 The first human H5N1 HPAI 🦠cases in Wyoming. The individual has been hospitalized, making them the third in the US to be positive and need hospitalization. This is not great news when the least populated state has a human H5N1 case. NGS 🧪 results are pending. health.wyo.gov/wyomings-fir...

It's with great sadness that we share that APHL’s global health program had to stop work temporarily. Our colleagues are like family, and we are grateful for their dedication over many years. Taking time to process this news is natural; we will then resume our work to protect the public’s health.

Excited to share a successful stakeholder meeting in Ndola, Zambia! 🌍 planning to pilot the Illumina Deeplex kit to tackle drug-resistant TB. A huge step forward in diagnostics and AMR response thanks to incredible local and global collaboration! 🧬 #CDCGlobalHealth #TB @aphl.org #TDRC #UTH #NTLP

Explore @aphl.org latest self-paced courses on Viral Amplicon Genomic Characterization & Genomic Epidemiology! 📚🧬 Ideal for public health labs working on Mpox, flu, SARS-CoV-2, & more. Funded by CDC, w/ cloud access for LMICs via @TerraBioApp. 🌐 Details: tinyurl.com/APHL-GC | tinyurl.com/APHL-GE

It is time to make the transfer over to this platform. Looking forward to sharing updates on all things global health, mixed in with some pup pics as well!

"The Applied Genomic Epidemiology Handbook" - a game-changer for public health pros! Kudos to Alli Black, @evogytis.bsky.social, with contributions from Taj Azarian, and Janeece Pourroy. A must-read for anyone in #PublicHealth or #GenomicEpidemiology. And even better - you can get it on Amazon.

Great insights from @erinyoung.bsky.social (at the Utah Public Health Lab) at the Oxford Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston, Texas! 🌐 Her breakout talk on AMR with @nanopore from was a highlight. Kudos to advancements in genomics! 👩‍🔬🧬 #NanoporeConf #Genomics #ScienceTalks

🎉Celebrating innovation with Vuzix smart glasses at 👓 NCDCGeorgia and the Lugar Center. APHL is thrilled to witness the seamless integration of this technology for virtual technical assistance for public health labs across Eastern Europe & Central Asia. 🌐🔬#PublicHealth #NGS #Innovation

Exciting news from Zambia 🇿🇲 as ZNPHI and CHAZ embark on the first week of sampling for the Global Fund Project STELLAR! 🌍🔬 Kudos to the incredible multidisciplinary team of laboratorians, epidemiologists, and environmental engineers. APHL and APHL-Zambia is proud to collaborate with all.

Join APHL and our team as a Lead Specialist in Global Health NGS and Bioinformatics 🌎, dedicated to strengthening global health NGS capacity in Central and South America and beyond. This remote position offers a unique opportunity to make a global impact. Apply now: tinyurl.com/2332bjf3

Just wrapped up an amazing whirlwind training in Nairobi, Kenya with the Association of Public Health Laboratories, Leonard Kingwara, and MoH Kenya NPHRL staff. Discussed expansion to 21 sites and trained on NGS with the Illumina COVIDSeq assay and Freya pipeline from @kgandersen.bsky.social lab.