Public Health Laboratories Overview

• Public health laboratories are a system of interdependent partnerships that work together to meet the needs of public health.
• Public health laboratories focus on providing specialized diagnostic and reference-level testing on a population level of concern.
• Public health laboratories must engage their entire scalable health care communities to varying degrees in their respective regional systems.
• The key functions of a public health laboratory include co-identifying and carrying out the 11 core functions.

Test your knowledge about the key functions and partnerships of public health laboratories, as well as their role in providing specialized diagnostic and reference-level testing on a population level of concern.