New Lab Matters: Public health on the frontier

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Most public health laboratories across the US share the same challenges, such as lack of sustained funding and worries over staff recruitment and retention. But laboratories in more rural areas and remote locations, or in large states with sparse populations, have their own unique set of challenges. These circumstances often necessitate ingenuity, independence and creativity, as seen in this issue’s feature article.

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APHL’s Top 10 Stories of 2023

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This year was full of growth and progress for APHL thanks to our members, partners and staff. As we look back on 2023, there are countless stories that represent the hard work and dedication of the entire public health laboratory community. These ten stories are just a small selection that demonstrate why we are so proud of everything public health laboratory teams around the globe do year after year.

While these stories had the most views or downloads in their respective publications, there are many more excellent stories in Lab Matters, on the APHL Blog or on the Lab Culture podcast so be sure to check those out too! This list is in chronological order of the date they were published:

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New Lab Matters: Building trust in public health through communications

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In addition to their round-the-clock work on testing during the COVID-19 pandemic, public health laboratories quickly became a focal point for providing information. And as misinformation seemed to spread as quickly as the virus itself, APHL and laboratory staff found themselves in the role of “truth-tellers.” The new environment presented challenges, but also opportunities to make public health laboratories–and their stories–more visible to the public. In this issue’s feature article, we not only talk to laboratorians who were thrust into the spotlight, but also look at key components to thoughtful, grounded communications.

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APHL and ISNS Honor 2023 Newborn Screening Award Winners

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For Immediate Release

Sacramento, CA, October 19, 2023 – At the 2023 Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)/ International Society for Neonatal Screening (ISNS) Newborn Screening Symposium, APHL presented awards to leaders in the field of newborn screening. Additionally, ISNS honored those from around the globe for their commitment to the field of newborn screening. The winners were announced during a ceremony on Wednesday, October 18. Congratulations to all award winners!

The following APHL awards were presented:

The George Cunningham Visionary Award in Newborn Screening is given to someone who has made the greatest contribution to expanding or improving the screening of newborns by public health agencies in one or more states. This year’s award recipient is:

  • Rachel Lee, PhD, medical screening unit director, Laboratory Services Section, Texas Department of State Health Services

The Judi Tuerck Newborn Screening Follow-up and Education Award honors someone who has made significant and outstanding contributions in one or more of the following areas: enhancing the caliber of the newborn screening system; improving follow-up and education; developing creative short term follow-up strategies that significantly reduce the time to diagnosis and treatment of affected infants; developing or enhancing long term follow-up strategies; establishing novel approaches or methods for managing the integration of new technologies in newborn screening; translating novel approaches or methods into best practices or guidelines for follow-up and education; providing innovative newborn screening follow-up training/education for best practices; or improving practices to ensure timely detection, reporting, intervention and treatment for newborns detected with disorders/conditions. This year’s award recipient is:

  • Carol Johnson, newborn screening follow-up coordinator, Iowa Newborn Screening Program, State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa

The Everyday Life Saver Award in Newborn Screening highlights the meaningful, ongoing ways the recipient contributes to the morale of their team and/or operations of their program on a daily basis. This year there are two recipients:

  • Kimberly Blake, newborn screening manager, North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health
  • Ron Hardy, owner (retired), Central Delivery Services of Iowa

The Harry Hannon Laboratory Improvement Award in Newborn Screening award honors someone who has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas: assuring the quality of testing, enhancing the specificity of tests, establishing new creative laboratory approaches and technologies, providing laboratory training/education for new technologies and tests, or improving the detection of newborn disorders/conditions. This year’s recipient is:

  • Patrick Hopkins, newborn screening project specialist, Missouri State Public Health Laboratory

The Clinician Champion Award honors someone involved in patient care and who has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas: ensuring newborns receive adequate screening and appropriate follow-up; assuring timely and effective communication of screening results to patients and families; and contributing to efforts to strengthen the impact of the public health newborn screening system by being directly involved in follow-up care, community affairs, newborn screening advocacy and/or community activities. This year there are two recipients:

  • Philip Farrell, MD/PhD, emeritus dean and professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Population Health Sciences, UW School of Medicine and Public Health
  • Paul Levy, MD, director, Inherited Metabolic Disease Specialty Care Center, Montefiore Medical Center

The Achievements in Public Health Informatics Award honors a person working in any aspect of newborn screening worldwide and has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas: enhancing implementation practices for electronic messaging; developing strategies for achieving effective data management; improving laboratory capability for health information data exchange; or providing new and creative approaches to communicate findings through data visualization. This year’s recipient is:

  • Craig Newman, PhD, Public Health Interoperability Subject Matter Expert, Altarum Institute

The ISNS awardees are:

The Robert Guthrie Award is given annually to honour a member of ISNS who has made an outstanding contribution to newborn or other population-based screening which is recognized as such worldwide. The awardees are:

  • 2019 Awardee: R. Rodney Howell, MD, FAAP, FACMG; Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics, Emeritus; Emeritus Member, Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
  • 2020 Awardee: Georg F. Hoffmann, MD, Univ.-Prof. Dr. med., Prof. h.c. mult. (RCH); Chairman/Department of Pediatrics, University of Heidelberg
  • 2021 Awardee: Joanne Mei, PhD; Chief, Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Program, Newborn Screening and Molecular Biology Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • 2022 Awardee: Michael Gelb, PhD; Professor and Boris and Barbara L. Weinstein Endowed Chair in Chemistry; Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington

The Jean Dussault Medal for young investigators is given annually to honour a member of ISNS who has made a significant contribution to neonatal or other population-based screening which is recognized as such. The awardees are:

  • 2019 Awardee: Stephan Borte, MD, PhD; Head of Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hospital St. Georg Leipzig
  • 2020 Awardee: Francyne Kubaski, MSc, PhD; Staff Scientist, Biochemical Genetics Laboratory, Greenwood Genetic Center
  • 2021 Awardee: Ulrike Mütze, MD; Metabolic Pediatrician, PI Long-term outcome metabolic newborn screening; Metabolic Center Heidelberg, Metabolic Laboratory, Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital
  • 2022 Awardee: Amy M. Gaviglio, MS, CGC; Genetics and Public Health Consultant, Connetics Consulting

The Gerard Loeber Award for Contributions to Newborn Screening Expansion in Developing Countries (NBS Development Award) is given every third year at the occasion of the ISNS international symposium. The awardee is:

  • 2023 Awardee: Kate Armstrong, DrPH, B Med, DCH, MPH, FAFPHM; President and Founder, Caring & Living as Neighbors (CLAN)

APHL and ISNS congratulate all award winners, and we thank them for their contributions to advancing the essential work of newborn screening.

Learn more about the APHL/ISNS Newborn Screening Symposium.

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The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) works to strengthen laboratory systems serving the public’s health in the US and globally. APHL’s member laboratories protect the public’s health by monitoring and detecting infectious and foodborne diseases, environmental contaminants, terrorist agents, genetic disorders in newborns and other diverse health threats. Learn more at www.aphl.org.

Contact Michelle Forman at 240-485-2793 or michelle.forman@aphl.org

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2023 Public Health Laboratory Appreciation Month: Celebration Wrap-up and Art Contest Winners

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While Public Health Laboratory Appreciation Month officially ended with September, our appreciation continues year-round. Thank you to everyone who shared their messages of thanks and recognition including local and state agencies, public health partners and so many individuals!

Microbe Masterpieces and Chemistry Creations Art Contest Winners

Thanks to QIAGEN for their continued support by sponsoring the 3rd Annual Microbe Masterpieces and Chemistry Creations Art Contest! All submissions are being showcased in a Facebook album so don’t miss it. And the winners are…

Public Health Laboratory Appreciation Month Highlights

Texas Department of State Health Services Laboratory leadership pose with Flat Labby!

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Enter the 3rd Annual QIAGEN-sponsored Microbe Masterpieces and Chemistry Creations Art Contest

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Unleash your creativity this September! In celebration of APHL’s Public Health Laboratory Appreciation Month, please join the 3rd Annual QIAGEN-sponsored Microbe Masterpieces & Chemistry Creations art contest to showcase your artistic skills and win some prizes!

Create artwork to showcase your love of laboratory science: a microbe, microbial colony, biochemical analyte, chemical agent, anything! Sketch, paint, sculpt, bake, knit – use any technique you like. Anyone who works for a local, state, federal or territorial public health laboratory is eligible to enter. When we say “public health laboratory,” we are including environmental health, agricultural and food safety labs too!

Send your entry to PHLinfo@qiagen.com by midnight (UTC) on September 30, 2023.

  • Every entry gets a submission gift. Please include your shipping address with your submission.
  • Winners will be chosen in three categories: Most Creative, Most Realistic and Most Inspiring. These winners will receive a choice of a QIAGEN Gut Check Board Game or a T-shirt.
  • A Grand Prize Winner will win a catered lunch for you and your colleagues, a gift basket of QIAGEN giveaways and a mural of all collected artwork.

Share your submission on social media with the tags #ThanksPHLabs and #QIAGEN so others can see!

View the QIAGEN-sponsored Microbe Masterpieces art contest terms and conditions.

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2023 Public Health Laboratory Appreciation Month Toolkit

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Public Health Laboratory Appreciation Month is here! Join APHL in celebrating public health lab staff supporting newborn screening, environmental testing, foodborne illness outbreak detection, infectious disease testing, biological threat monitoring or so much more. Whether a microbiologist or chemist, an informatician or administrator, everyone deserves our appreciation!

Below you will find tools and resources to help you celebrate Public Health Laboratory Appreciation Month. Whether a lab director, a partner organization or an individual who just loves public health labs, there’s something here for everyone. Please share this post with others in your network!

Be sure to follow and subscribe so you don’t miss a thing!

Use and follow #ThanksPHLabs throughout September to join the conversation on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok!

Which laboratories are “public health” laboratories?

When we say “public health laboratory” we mean local, state and territorial government laboratories whose primary focus is on monitoring, detecting and responding to health threats. That means government environmental, agricultural and food safety labs are also public health laboratories! They are all public sector laboratories focused on protecting the public’s health by testing human, animal and environmental samples for potential threats. Here are some downloadable graphics that share this message:

This year we will be highlighting just a few of the different types of scientists working in all types of public health laboratories doing a range of work. Stay tuned for some graphics that you can share so that all public health lab scientists know they are included. Coming soon!

Is there a public health laboratory in my community?

Every state has at least one public health laboratory. Some states have more than one laboratory at the state level, and some also have local or regional laboratories. While not all public health laboratories in the US are APHL members, most are. So check out our member list and map to see what types of public health lab(s) are in your state or territory.

Celebrate Public Health Laboratory Staff

Public health laboratory staff work hard every day to keep their community safe from public health threats. Whether you are a microbiologist, an administrative assistant, a custodian, a chemist or hold any other job role, you are vital to ensuring the laboratory operates efficiently and effectively. You are appreciated and deserve to be celebrated!

Check out these photos from laboratory teams who celebrated Public Health Laboratory Appreciation Month in years past to get some inspiration:

And don’t miss this amazing video of Flat Labby touring the Missouri State Public Health Laboratory!

Below are suggestions for laboratory leaders, laboratory staff, partners and community members. You will also find graphics that you are free to use on your own social networks along with some sample posts.

Ideas for Laboratory Leaders:

  • Create a video using online tools like Memento, Tribute or Vidday with messages of appreciation for your staff. Or have your staff make one for another lab!
  • Hold a virtual or in-person open house for media, elected officials, school groups, staff families and other members of the public. Help your community see the interesting and valuable work your team is doing to keep them safe and healthy.
  • Reach out to your agency’s public information officer and ask them to share posts of appreciation on social media! Sample posts and graphics are below.
  • Hold a Flat Labby t-shirt design contest! The Flat Labby Cool cut-out page has a blank t-shirt, so everyone can create a fun, one-of-a-kind logo or design! Get everyone involved and have a contest for the best shirt!
  • Invite staff to have lunch or a break together! Coloring is a great way to relax and have some fun. Print these Flat Labby coloring pages or NEW All Star coloring pages, gather markers or other coloring tools, and invite staff to take a break with others around the lab!
  • Games are coming soon!

Ideas for Laboratory Staff:

  • Print these activity sheets to celebrate individuals throughout the lab! Give one sheet to each staff person and ask them to add their name and photo. Then hang them together and invite everyone leave notes of appreciation for each other.
  • Take Flat Labby on some fun adventures around the lab or out on the town – here’s how! Print your own Flat Labby, take them with you, snap some pictures of your adventures, and share during Public Health Laboratory Appreciation Month using #ThanksPHLabs and #FlatLabby.
  • Send a letter of gratitude to your staff, coworkers, family and friends. Here are some fun fillable letters for you to use or you can write your own:
  • Sign up with Skype-A-Scientist to virtually connect with students to help them understand public health laboratory careers.
  • Games are coming soon!

Ideas for Partners and Community Members:

  • Contact the public health laboratory in your area and offer to send coffee, lunch, snack or other treats as a token of your appreciation. This list of APHL member laboratories is a great place to start.
  • Post on your social channels using #ThanksPHLabs to let everyone know how appreciative you are of the work public health labs do every day to protect the community. Graphics and sample posts are below.
  • Send thank you notes to public health laboratories and encourage others to do the same.
  • Make a video sharing how much you appreciate public health laboratories and share on social media using #ThanksPHLabs! We will compile the posts and share with APHL member laboratories.

Sample Social Media Posts:

  • Every September we recognize public health laboratory professionals who work passionately to protect the health of all people and all communities. Their work saves lives daily. Join us in saying #ThanksPHLabs!
  • Public health laboratory teams often work behind the scenes but our appreciation for them should be front and center! #ThanksPHLabs for keeping our communities protected from health threats and making us all feel safe!
  • Public health laboratories play a crucial role in pursuing health equity and supporting health justice. “The diseases, conditions and exposures that we track reflect socially driven inequities…” Read more: https://buff.ly/3JigMXG #ThanksPHLabs
  • “Hey now, you’re an all-star, get your game on, go play!” September is Public Health Laboratory Appreciation Month, but we are grateful year-round to public health lab teams who detect health threats like COVID-19, rabies and more! #ThanksPHLabs
  • Stars don’t just shine at night because all public health laboratory professionals are superstars! If you know someone who works in a public health lab, shine a light of appreciation their way by using the hashtag #ThanksPHLabs
  • Remember the cough that canceled your vacation…for two years? Thanks to the work of public health laboratories, tests are conducted that cross human, animal and environmental health domains. Learn more https://bit.ly/PHL_OneHealth #ThanksPHLabs

Stories to Share:

Downloadable Public Health Laboratory Appreciation Month graphics

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Public health laboratories collecting critical data on non-fatal drug overdoses

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By Melanie Padgett Powers, writer

Some public health laboratories are collecting data on non-fatal drug overdoses so the information can be used in substance use prevention and treatment efforts.

During the May 23 session “Innovative Laboratory Surveillance Projects for Drug Overdose: Successes, Challenges and Future Directions” at the 2023 APHL Annual Conference, experts explained how public health laboratories can create biosurveillance programs for non-fatal drug overdoses.

These programs involve partnering with hospital emergency departments, where hospital staff collect urine specimens from patients who survive drug overdoses. The samples are de-identified — meaning the patients are anonymous to the laboratory staff — and shipped or delivered to the state public health laboratory for testing.

Fentanyl drives overdose deaths

There have been three waves of the opioid overdose epidemic in the US, explained Desiree Mustaquim, PhD, MPH, senior health scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The first wave started in the late 1990s with an increase in prescription overdose deaths. Following this, around 2010 there was an increase in heroin overdose deaths, and then starting about 2013, there was a large increase in synthetic opioid deaths, mostly from fentanyl, she said.

Preliminary data predict that there were 109,680 overdose deaths in the US in 2022. While that is a slight increase from 2021, Mustaquim said, it appeared the number of overdose deaths might be leveling off.

“Fentanyl continues to be the main driver,” she said. “Co-involvement on multiple substances also continues to be a major problem. The drug supply is incredibly complex, and it is constantly evolving. So, those three things are indicators as to why laboratory surveillance is incredibly important in this space.”

Public health laboratories can apply for funding for these biosurveillance programs through the CDC Overdose Data to Action (ODA) program. CDC announced an expansion of the ODA program this year with two new funding opportunities, one designed for states and one designed specifically for localities and territories. Both awards will support five-year cooperative agreements.

To analyze the samples, public health laboratories are using high-resolution mass spectrometry, which is more sensitive and more accurate. In Minnesota, laboratory scientists also analyzed benzodiazepine dropper bottles submitted by law enforcement. The results of six bottles showed multiple types of benzodiazepines but only two that were consistent across the six bottles, said Rosie Rushing, MS, research scientist at the Minnesota Department of Health Public Health Laboratory. The bottles also had traces of delta-9 THC (found in cannabis), methamphetamine and synthetic cannabinoids.

“So, depending on how these bottles were used to either transport or store previous material could impact the future components or drugs that were put into these dropper bottles, and people could be using them without even knowing what was in them,” Rushing said.

The dropper findings support the urine sample results, which often show multiple substances as well. In fact, Rushing said, in one of the more complex urine samples there were 23 unique substances.

One of the emerging drugs is xylazine, a non-opioid animal tranquilizer that can be fatal to humans. In April 2023, the Biden administration designated fentanyl associated with xylazine as an emerging threat. However, individuals may not know they are being exposed to xylazine; drug producers may be adding it to other drugs to enhance drug effects or to increase street value by increasing their weight, according to the CDC.

Hospital partnerships important

These biosurveillance systems rely on participation of hospital emergency department staff. Experts said this makes the development of the partnership between the hospital and public health laboratory critically important.

The South Carolina public health laboratory staff found it helpful to partner with the South Carolina Hospital Association and to get program buy-in directly from hospital CEOs, said Beth Bair, MS, chemistry division director at the public health laboratory of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.

Through those efforts, 41 hospitals in 28 South Carolina counties agreed to participate. Over the past three years, 30 of the hospitals actually sent in samples, with samples coming from 12 hospitals a month on average. Recently, the laboratory received over 400 samples in one month for the first time; the average is 370 a month.

The laboratory initially tested for 21 compounds, mostly fentanyl analogs. Staff have added to that every year based on what drugs were emerging or suspected in the state. Now, they test for more than 40 compounds, which takes up a lot of time.

The speakers stressed that one of the critical components is what the laboratories do with all that data. South Carolina has created an online data dashboard that is expected to go public soon.

“We’ve worked really hard on finding meaningful ways to present this data because we really want this data to be impactful,” Bair said. “We want it to be useful for the people who are actually going out and targeting treatment and prevention efforts to address this epidemic.”

Melanie Padgett Powers is a freelance writer and editor specializing in health care and public health.

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Public health laboratories are necessary in the call to dismantle health inequities

Dr. Jeffrey Hall, acting deputy director of the CDC Office of Health Equity, speaks to the audience at the 2023 APHL Annual Conference.

By Melanie Padgett Powers, writer

Public health laboratory professionals have the opportunity and the power to reduce health inequities and support health justice, said Jeffrey Hall, PhD, MSPH, MA, acting deputy director of the Office of Health Equity at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in his May 22 opening plenary session, “Reducing Health Inequity, Pursuing Health Equity and Seeking Health Justice” at the 2023 APHL Annual Conference.

Hall presented a call to action for health justice: “Everyone deserves a fair and just opportunity to be and stay as healthy as possible. … We all have a right to a system of health promotion, protection and preservation that provides equity of opportunity to enjoy the highest attainable level of health.”

Seeking health equity and health justice are complementary approaches that both require addressing the fundamental root causes of health inequities in our society, Hall explained.

Pursuing health inequity includes placing outcomes at the center of assessment and policy development. It entails actively and routinely highlighting, in practice and policy, the needs of historically marginalized populations.

Seeking health justice includes participating in movements to eliminate health inequities and expand access to health care. It entails recognizing and building the power of individuals and communities affected by health inequities, as well as focusing on the roles and influence of laws, policies and institutions in creating and perpetuating inequities.

The role of public health laboratories

Public health laboratory professionals play critical roles connected to health justice, Hall contended, such as surveillance of diseases and environmental exposures and supporting efforts for clean water, air and other environmental factors.

“The diseases, conditions and exposures that we track reflect socially driven inequities,” Hall said. “What we see in our labs reflect a highly complex, socially stratified world. [It] reflects differential social — and in many cases, physical — placements relative to hazards and sources of acute, as well as chronic, risks or toxic sources of stress.”

Pursuing health equity and seeking health justice requires removing obstacles to health, he said. “This means stepping out — or for some of us even further out — of our comfort zones to help cultivate access to factors that vary access to conditions that are vital for health and for well-being. That can mean taking on factors with which we are not necessarily used to dealing with or comfortable dealing with.”

This includes addressing discrimination and the “interlocking systems of differential privilege, advantage and oppression” that plague our society, such as racism, sexism, heterosexism, cisgenderism, ableism, ageism, nativism and classism, he said.

“Health justice requires a probing and critical eye to root out the influence of these ‘isms’ on the design and on the implementation of efforts addressing health disparities,” Hall said.

Hall called for a “health for all policy” approach, which is an evolution from a “health in all policy” approach. The change is warranted in 2023 because although many people acknowledge that everything affects health, “not everyone actually thinks that health is their specific problem to solve,” he said.

He shared several prompts that public health laboratory professionals can ask as they consider how to incorporate health equity in all policies. These include:

  • What social conditions and economic policies make some people more likely to be unhealthy?
  • What institutional policies and practices prevent people from accessing services?
  • What fundamental policy changes do we need to eliminate disparities?
  • How can we work within our communities to define and prioritize public health concerns?

Hall acknowledged that his call to action might feel overwhelming to many, as they are already working hard in their public health laboratory roles.

“I know as you think about everything that I’ve mentioned, you may have many, many other responsibilities and that this particular task that I’m asking you to look at is huge,” he said. “But I want to reiterate that we cannot do this without each and every one of you. No matter what your position is, no matter the length of time you’ve been in the field or in your position, there is a unique spot for you with this work. Together, we can do this. Together, we must do this.”

Melanie Padgett Powers is a freelance writer and editor specializing in health care and public health.

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New Lab Matters: Leveraging the power of privilege in public health

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Privilege is multifaceted and shaped by a myriad of factors. Knowing that privilege underlies many of the inequities that reside within the public health system, it is critical to ask what roles public health laboratories and their laboratorians might play in addressing some of these inequities in not only their workspaces, but also in the communities they serve. In this issue’s feature article, we discuss some of the ongoing efforts – in the classroom, in the workspace and as individuals – about how to identify and acknowledge the sources and effects of privilege, and how laboratorians can start to harness that privilege to drive positive change.

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