From the President’s Desk: Lab leadership in public health, 6/15

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June 2015—More than 11,000 dead of Ebola virus disease in Africa; measles recurring in the United States after a 15-year hiatus; 40 million poultry dead from bird flu or culled in the hope of containing it. The world gets smaller, the agents stay strong, the zoonotic threats multiply. Anticipating and managing such challenges is an important part of laboratory leadership.