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The LabAspire Program provides partial funding to two post-doctoral programs to support the training of post-doctoral candidates to become Public Health Laboratory Directors. These programs prepare professionals to pass one of the board exams required under the Clinical Laboratories Improvement Amendments (CLIA). The two programs are: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, is providing post-doctoral training in a 2-year American Board of Medical Microbiology (ABMM) Clinical Microbiology and Public Health Program accredited by the Committee on Postgraduate Education Programs (CPEP) of the American Society for Microbiology. Fellowship candidates should have an MD or a PhD in a microbiology related field. Fellows in this program will rotate through the Los Angeles County Public Health Laboratory for three months of public health laboratory training and will also have a brief period of training at Orange County Public Health Laboratory and California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Microbial Disease Laboratory in Richmond. Additional rotations in other public health laboratories can also be arranged depending on the interests of the trainee. The program also supports attending public health and microbiology meetings and research in topics related to microbiology and public health. These activities will allow the Post-doctoral Fellows to become familiar with the public health microbiology mission.
The Microbial Diseases Laboratory Branch, California Department of Public Health (CDPH), located in Richmond, provides a 2-Year Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program in Public Health and Medical Microbiology. This program, established in Fall 2008, accepts 1-2 new fellows per year.
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