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APHL Fellowship Programs Update
by Heather Roney, MA, manager, Fellowship Programs
February 28 marked the end of
recruitment for the 2018 APHL-CDC
Antimicrobial Resistance Fellowship.
Applications were reviewed by
representatives from the US Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention’s
(CDC’s) Antimicrobial Resistance
Coordination and Strategy Unit, as well as
representatives from state public health
laboratories with extensive background
in molecular and microbiology. Finalists
are currently being interviewed by
the Antibiotic Resistance Laboratory
Network’s (ARLN) regional laboratories.
Accepted fellows will be placed in the
regional laboratories and are expected to
start their fellowship this summer.
APHL received a record number of
applications for this year’s Bioinformatics
Fellowship. Moreover, two-thirds of the
host lab applications came from public
health labs. Applications were reviewed
by previous fellows and representatives
from CDC and state public health
l aboratories. Matching between fellows
and host was completed in April; fellows
are expected to begin their assignments
in the summer. As states move further
along in implementation and use of next
generation sequencing, bioinformatics
fellows are an invaluable resource for
building capacity and infrastructure
and PHLs are an excellent training
environment, allowing a fellow exposure
to a breadth of NGS applications in
infectious disease.
Infectious Diseases Fellow Thomas Moore
gave a presentation at the January 2018
Tennessee Mosquito & Vector Control
Association Annual Meeting based on
his work at the Tennessee Department
of Health: “Arbovirus Outbreak at the
Nashville Zoo.” At the North Carolina State
Laboratory of Public Health (NCSLPH),
ID Lab Fellow Mia Warlick at the Florida Bureau of Public
Health Laboratories-Tampa
Infectious Diseases Fellow Michael
Mash worked with post-doc fellow and
Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory
Fellowship alumnus Kara Levinson on
validating MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry
to identify enteric pathogens. Their work
resulted in a reduction of turn-around-
time for identification and typing of
pathogens submitted to NCSLPH. n
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