Insights

To acknowledge the work done by phlebotomists, the Registered Phlebotomy Technicians (RPT) and American Medical Technologists (AMT) have designated February 10-14, 2025, as National Phlebotomists Recognition Week (NPRW).

World Standards Day is an annual celebration to pay tribute to the collaborative efforts of thousands of experts worldwide who develop the voluntary technical agreements that are published as international standards.

Public Health Laboratory Appreciation Month is a celebration that recognizes public health laboratory staff, scientist, and technicians, and their essential role in protecting and improving global public health and ensuring the safety of our communities. This month serves as a reminder to honor all of the the hardworking public health professionals.

National Preparedness Month (NPM) is an observance each September to raise awareness about the importance of preparing for disasters and unexpected emergencies.

CLSI’s Committees Weeks are an opportunity for the CLSI expert community to meet and connect with colleagues for a week of information sharing, consensus building, networking, and camaraderie. Committees Weeks are where the hard work behind CLSI’s standards and guidelines takes place—committees and subcommittees, following CLSI’s voluntary consensus process, work together on new and revised CLSI standards in development.

CLSI recently partnered with the Ohio State University (Ohio State) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) for the first training of its kind that brought together official veterinary diagnosticians in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) working in national reference labs monitoring antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

November 3, 2023 is the eighth annual One Health Day. This global campaign highlights the need for an integrated approach to tackle shared health threats around the world. The One Health approach spans a multitude of disciplines and sectors to achieve optimal health outcomes for people, animals, plants, and their shared ecosystems, through coordinated interventions.

Newborn screening (NBS) is an important component of public health that helps health care providers identify hereditary and metabolic disorders in newborns and enables early therapeutic intervention, which can be lifesaving or altering. Newborn screening programs are typically state- or country-based public health programs. Today, newer and more complex technology is increasingly being integrated into NBS.

CLSI’s CEO, Barb Jones, PhD, sat down with Association 100 (A100) Podcast host, Megan Henning, to talk about her role as CLSI’s CEO, how she sees AI impacting the standards setting process, and the unique challenges and opportunities of overseeing a fully remote workforce.

We’re celebrating Public Health Laboratory Awareness this September. To find out more about why public health laboratories are so important to all our lives, we spoke with Victor Waddell, PhD, MS, CLSI’s Board President, and Bureau Chief of the Arizona State Public Health Laboratory.