About the SHL

 

About the SHL

What is a public health laboratory?

The Association of Public Health Laboratories is answering the question, "What is a public health laboratory?" with an animated video released in October 2012. In slightly more than one minute, the video makes the connection between disease detection, environmental surveillance and newborn screening and the public health laboratory system.

What is environmental health testing? What are environmental health laboratories?

In this video, the Association of Public Health Laboratories explains how lab scientists keep communities safe from contaminants that may be in the environment.