Focus on Fellows
Focus on Fellows is an APHL publication that provides an opportunity to see the faces and learn a little more about the Public Health Laboratory Fellowship Program participant who have been working, learning and developing laboratory andprofessional skills alongside you. This publication is a collection of all fellows who participated in, or graduated from the fellowship program between 2024-2025.
Bioinformatics and Molecular Epidemiology
Jeffery Arcilla
US Centers for Disease Control Prevention
Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology: Diagnostics and Capacity Building Team, Viral Special Pathogens Branch
Raheel Ahmed
US Centers for Disease Control
Coronavirus and Respiratory Virus Division
Robert Dickerson
San Mateo County Public Health Laboratory
Hailey Gavigan
Arizona Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
Iryna Goraichuk
Sonoma County Public Health Laboratory
Kyrsten Hall
Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment
Daniel Hartman
Washington Public Health Laboratories
Haejin Hwang-Hinz
Minnesota Public Health Laboratory Division
Dharini Jasti
Arkansas Public Health Laboratory
James Martinez
Georgia Public Health Laboratory
Tyra Mills
Nebraska Public Health Laboratory
Keri Smith
Georgia Public Health Laboratory
Zahra Tayebi
US Centers for Disease Control
Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology : Diagnostics and Capacity Building Team, Viral Special Pathogens Branch
Biosafety and Biosecurity
McKenzie Mullis
Ohio Department of Health Laboratories
Emergency Preparedness and Response
Ifeanyichukwu Ukaumunna
Oregon State Public Health Laboratory
Environmental Health
Keerthi Balaji
New Jersey Division of Public Health & Environmental Laboratories
Kaylene Chiang
Orange County Public Health Laboratory
Alyssa del Rosario
San Mateo County Public Health Laboratory
Arika Hawkins
Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
Paola Hernandez
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Esohe Irabor
New Jersey Division of Public Health & Environmental Laboratories
Chelsea Lucien
Rhode Island State Health Laboratories
Aeryn Olson
Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
Heather Penton
St. Tammany Parish Mosquito Abatement
Kim Phan
San Mateo County Public Health Laboratory
Samira Rezaeian
Orange County Public Health Laboratory
Jean Steele
Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
Tyler Stepps
California Department of Public Health Laboratory
Yadira Farias Valdovinos
New York State Department of Health-Wadsworth Center
Grace Willard
New York State Department of Health-Wadsworth Center
Food Safety
Jesus Bedolla
Maryland State Deptartment of Health Laboratories Administration
Alyssa Deeds
Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
Jomeeka (Meeks) Patton
New York State Department of Health-Wadsworth Center
Chiquita Price
Mississippi State Chemical Laboratory
Esha Sachdev
New Jersey Division of Public Health & Environmental Laboratories
Zoe Watkins
Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services
Infectious Diseases
Kevin Alvarez
New York State Department of Health-Wadsworth Center
Stacy Suarez Cham
Orange County Public Health Laboratory
Annmarie Chang
New York State Department of Health-Wadsworth Center
Eric Cheng
Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory
Danilo da Silva
Dallas County Health and Human Services
Darnell Davis
Howard University Laboratory
Tayler Farrington
New York State Department of Health-Wadsworth Center
Majie Foster
New York State Department of Health-Wadsworth Center
Darrell Gibson Jr
Florida Department of Health Bureau of Public Health Laboratories-Tampa
Hamilton Green
Tennessee Department of Health: Laboratory Services
Jordan Holl
New York State Department of Health-Wadsworth Center
Hedayat Hosseini
San Mateo County Public Health Laboratory
Elizabeth Key
New York State Department of Health-Wadsworth Center
Lauren Kloft
State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa
Lino Lopez
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Division of Vector-borne Diseases: Arboviral Diseases Branch Diagnostic and Reference Lab
Peyton Merriman
Florida Department of Health Bureau of Public Health Laboratories-Tampa
Bryan Nguyen
Orange County Public Health Laboratory
Delia O'Brien
New York State Department of Health-Wadsworth Center
Reed Robinson
New York State Department of Health-Wadsworth Center
Austin Rueda
Arizona Bureau of State Laboratory Services
Brooke Seitter
Utah Public Health Laboratory
Hayley Stauber
Rhode Island State Health Laboratories
Youki Yamasaki
Hawaii Laboratories Division
Informatics
Krithik Duraisamy
Arizona Bureau of State Laboratory Services
Hanley Kingston
San Mateo County Public Health Laboratory
Arvind Murali
City of Milwaukee Health Department
Demetria Yoder
New Jersey Division of Public Health & Environmental Laboratories
Newborn Screening
Courtney Gauchel
University of Utah - Deptartment of Biomedical Informatics
Quality Management
Tomi (Oluwatomi) Ekibolaji
Houston Health Department Laboratory
Autumn Foster
Rhode Island State Health Laboratories
Trey Grant
New York State Department of Health-Wadsworth Center
Jayvon McKinley
Ohio Department of Health Laboratories
