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Healthiest Laboratory Award

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APHL Award

About the Healthiest Laboratory Award

The Healthiest Lab Award is generously sponsored by APHL Diamond Level Sustaining Member, HDR.

The Healthiest Laboratory Award celebrates excellence in environmental stewardship and health promotion in both practice and policy. It recognizes APHL member laboratories demonstrating outstanding efforts to reduce their collective environmental impact and to promote health and wellness programs. Winning laboratories receive the option of choosing from a suite of laboratory-related prizes associated with environmental sustainability and health promotion.

Formal recognition for this award takes place at the APHL Annual Conference.

Eligibility

Laboratories are eligible to receive the award only once every three years.

Selection Process

Winners are chosen based solely on responses to the Healthiest Laboratory Self-Assessment Survey, distributed to APHL member laboratories during the annual nomination period.

  • All eligible laboratories are encouraged to complete the survey.
  • Progress can be saved and revisited at a later date, but submission of the survey is final, so please review your responses carefully before submitting.

The State and Local jurisdictional winners of the Healthiest Laboratory Award are reimbursed up to $1,500 towards one or more of the following prizes:

  • Purchase or repair of fitness equipment
  • Funding mass transit passes for employees
  • Funding recycling program
  • Purchasing trees/greenery for around the lab or starting a small garden
  • A health and wellness expo for lab employees
  • Other green purchase to be approved by APHL.

Prizes must first be approved by APHL.

AWARDEES

Winners of the Healthiest Laboratory Award

California Department of Public Health Center for Laboratory Sciences

2025 State Winner:

Healthiest Laboratory Award

San Diego County Public Health Laboratory

2025 Local Winner:

Healthiest Laboratory Award

Kentucky State Public Health Laboratory

2024 State Winner:

Healthiest Laboratory Award

San Francisco Public Health Laboratory

2024 Local Winner:

Healthiest Laboratory Award

San Jose—Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility Laboratory

2022 Local Winner:

Healthiest Laboratory Award

Nebraska Public Health Laboratory

2023 State Winner:

Healthiest Laboratory Award

State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa

2022 State Winner:

Healthiest Laboratory Award

Kentucky Public Health Laboratory

2021 Winner:

Healthiest Laboratory Award

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2025 Winner:

Healthiest Laboratory Award