Using Wastewater Surveillance to Understand Infectious Disease Trends
In this 3rd session of the Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community series, we are excited to bring you a case study featuring collaborations in support of the CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System. Wastewater Surveillance has been used since the 1960s to identify communities with polio transmission. During the COVID pandemic, this surveillance approach was modified to detect infection trends. Wastewater data is a leading indicator of increases and decreases in COVID and is used to inform public health messaging, resource allocation and personal decisions, like masking and travel.
3D-Printed Nasal Swabs for the City of Austin’s COVID-19 Response
In this second session of the Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community series, ASCP and CDC are excited to bring you a case study featuring Juan Gomez, Ph.D. on how his team re-purposed existing and idle 3D printers at Texas State University to produce nasal swabs in support of the City of Austin’s COVID-19 testing response. This innovative strategy helped to locally address the widespread supply chain bottleneck involving access to nasal swab observed early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Gomez will share his experience collaborating with the city and other academic centers to support this effort as well as
Exchanging Best Practices & Creating Statewide Policy Change for the Lab Workforce
The New York State Laboratory Leadership Consortium, presenting on their mobilization to exchange laboratory best practices at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to support local COVID-19 testing and emergency responses and subsequently to collectively impact state-wide policies affecting laboratory licensure for laboratory professionals in New York.
In the Field/Surveillance
In the fifth session, professionals serving field-based and/or surveillance-related positions in federal branches and industry laboratories will be featured. This 90-minute webinar session will feature 5 esteemed panelists highlighting their career trajectory, as well as a moderated Question and Answer session. We encourage all ASCP members to share promotions on this series widely with their trainees, students, and others who may be interested in entering the laboratory workforce or navigating career transitions within the laboratory workforce!
International Lab Scientists Practicing in the US
In the final session, international laboratory scientists who have navigated career transitions into the US laboratory workforce will be featured. This 90-minute webinar session will feature 4 esteemed panelists highlighting their career trajectory. In addition, the session will feature two sessions on immigration processes and policies to support laboratory scientists navigating international career transitions from the perspectives of an immigration lawyer and ASCP’s Center of Public Policy. The session will conclude with a moderated Question and Answer session. We encourage all ASCP members to share promotions on this series widely with their trainees, students, and others who may be interested