APHL Sustaining Membership offers companies increased visibility, industry insight and valuable connections across the public health laboratory community. Gain access to events, communications, leadership opportunities and resources that support and strengthen public health laboratories.
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As a 501(c)(3) organization, APHL represents a unique network of over 1,500 members from public health, environmental, agricultural and other public sector laboratories. With more than 70 years of history, APHL serves as a vital link between its members, government health agencies and private sector partners, working together to strengthen the laboratories that protect public health and safety.
APHL’s Sustaining Membership is designed for industry and corporate entities that have an interest in public health or environmental laboratories and wish to actively support and engage with the work of APHL and is ideal for companies looking to:
Opportunities include complimentary exhibit booth space and registrations at the APHL Annual Conference, discounts on advertising, logo placement with a website link on the APHL homepage and a complimentary set of member mailing labels. Top-tier members receive additional promotional benefits.
Members gain valuable insight into the public health laboratory landscape through participation in APHL committees, speaking engagements at association events, and the annual Corporate Leadership Council meeting, which connects industry leaders with public health laboratory professionals.
APHL acts as an information broker for sustaining members, providing timely updates through member communications, alerts, the weekly eUpdate newsletter and the quarterly Lab Matters magazine.
APHL offers five sustaining membership tiers, which offer scaled access to participation and exposure opportunities.
APHL is a 501(c)(3) organization that represents a unique membership of over 1,600 members from public health, environmental, agricultural and other public sector laboratories. With a history of more than 70 years, APHL serves as a link between members, government health agencies and private sector partners working to strengthen the laboratories that protect public health and safety. With five levels of membership to choose from, there’s a place for everyone to support public health laboratory science and practice.
The APHL Sustaining Member Program is a recognition and stewardship program. A “Sustaining Member” is an industry or corporate entity that has an interest in public health, environmental or agricultural laboratories. APHL is grateful for the industry and corporate entities that invest in the public health community and help make our mission possible.
Sustaining Membership is open to for-profit organizations and corporate entities that provide services or products to member laboratories and support the mission and goals of APHL. This is a non-voting membership category. Sustaining Members are not eligible to join APHL committees. (Note: Sustaining Membership does not carry with it an APHL endorsement of a Sustaining Members’ products, services or activities.
APHL's sustaining membership guarantees your company visibility to institutional and individual members through:
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Additional access and engagement opportunities for sustaining members include:
Sustaining Members can present to a select committee for a direct engagement and educational session. Once the request has been approved, we will work with your team to schedule a date and time to present to the committee, workforce group, task force or communities of practice.
Exhibit at one of the APHL-sponsored conferences including our Annual Conference, which attracted over 1,100 participants in 2025. Sponsorships of meeting activities and other items are available for any of the APHL-sponsored meetings. Advertising in the final program and other visibility opportunities are available.
See below for our advertising placement opportunities and find pricing in our Media Kit.
Our quarterly magazine, Lab Matters, which is read by APHL members and partners and accessed by others online, has advertising at affordable rates.
Send out materials to the entire membership by requesting a membership mailing list.
APHL works with countries around the world to build strong and resilient national laboratory systems. We welcome financial or in-kind support for our initiatives.
While there are limited opportunities for non-sustaining members to engage with APHL’s communities, such as exhibiting at events or arranging targeted product discounts, we encourage companies to reach out to APHL to discuss how you can scale up your impact by becoming a sustaining member.
