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Carrie Anglewicz, Biosafety Officer, Bureau of Laboratories - MDHHS
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Bureau
of Laboratories plays a key role in the state public health laboratory system
as Michigan’s state public health laboratory. The laboratory is charged with provision and
assurance of a full range of laboratory services required to support public
health in Michigan. Training and education of healthcare partners has been deemed as
one of the eleven essential core functions to guide the Bureau of Laboratory services
within the state public health system.
As part of our responsibility toward upholding public health
laboratory core functions, the Bureau of Laboratories continues to work with
clinical partners around the state to improve laboratory safety. The Ebola
virus outbreak in 2015 stressed the importance of evaluating laboratory
procedures when handling the “unknown,” but the safety practices utilized
during this outbreak should also be applied to everyday laboratory testing. A
major initiative, along with Ebola-special pathogen preparedness, has been the
provision of biosafety risk assessment tools and biosafety training for our
clinical laboratory partners. A biosafety risk assessment is a major step toward
the improvement of laboratory safety and mitigation of identified exposure
risks. If your laboratory does not have a process for conducting biosafety risk
assessments or would like a consultative biosafety visit, please contact the
Bureau of Laboratories. Our Biosafety Officer maybe contacted by email at AnglewiczC@Michigan.gov
or by telephone (517) 335-9654.
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