At a glance
Find digital resources to help you promote Medical Laboratory Professionals Week throughout your network.
Purpose
Join us as we celebrate the 49th Medical Laboratory Professionals Week! This event is to recognize clinical and public health laboratory professionals for their contributions to the health of our communities.
The theme for Lab Week 2024 is The Future is Lab. We celebrate laboratory professionals who protect our future by skillfully adapting to meet today's evolving patient care and public health challenges. Their resilience, innovation, and expertise are key to their success. This theme also creates awareness and excitement about working in a laboratory setting.
How to use this toolkit
Use this digital toolkit to increase awareness of the significant contributions of laboratory professionals. Show your support by sharing the following with your colleagues and throughout your networks:
- Social media hashtags and messages
- Key messages
- Digital graphics
Messaging
Main message:
We celebrate laboratory professionals who protect our future by skillfully adapting to today’s evolving patient care and public health challenges with resilience, innovation, and expertise.
Sub message 1:
The Future is Evolving: The laboratory workforce remains resilient in the face of continually emerging public health threats, responding with poise, and demonstrating versatility as its role in diagnostic testing has expanded.
Sub message 2:
The Future is a Work in Progress: The laboratory is a collaborative workplace where laboratory professionals attend continuing education classes and take innovative training modules that are instrumental to the future of laboratory medicine.
Sub message 3:
The Future is You: The laboratory offers many exciting career paths for you to consider wherever you are on your professional journey.
During the week of April 14-20, 2024, CDC’s Division of Laboratory Systems (DLS) celebrates the 49th Medical Laboratory Professionals Week to recognize clinical and public health laboratory professionals for their contributions to the health of our communities.
Our Lab Week theme for 2024 is The Future is Lab. This year’s lab week theme celebrates laboratory professionals who protect our future by skillfully adapting to meet today’s evolving patient care and public health challenges with resilience, innovation, and expertise.
Show your appreciation by accessing our digital Lab Week toolkit and sharing it with other laboratory professionals and partners in your networks.
Dear [Partner Organization],
Join CDC’s Division of Laboratory Systems (DLS) on April 14-20, 2024, as we celebrate the 49th annual Medical Laboratory Professionals Lab Week to recognize clinical and public health laboratory professionals for their contributions to the health of our:
Communities, through their work in public health and clinical laboratories
Family members, friends, and colleagues who are patients in clinical settings
Our 2024 theme for Lab Week, The Future is Lab, celebrates laboratory professionals who protect our future by skillfully adapting to meet today’s evolving patient care and public health challenges with resilience, innovation, and expertise. This theme also creates awareness and excitement about working in a laboratory setting.
We encourage you to use The Future is Lab digital toolkit to honor, showcase, and reflect on the valuable contributions of all laboratory professionals and their direct impact on public health and patient care. Share and repost through your social media channels using these hashtags: #LabWeek2024 #TheFutureisLab
Please share these resources with your colleagues and throughout your networks.
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Happy Lab Week 2024! We celebrate laboratory professionals who protect our future by skillfully adapting to meet today’s evolving patient care and public health challenges with resilience, innovation, and expertise. Use our partner toolkits to show appreciation to your staff, family, and friends who work in laboratories or point-of-care testing sites.
Happy Lab Week 2024! We celebrate laboratory professionals who protect our future by skillfully adapting to meet today's evolving patient care and public health challenges with resilience, innovation, and expertise.
Know an amazing laboratory professional? Tag them below!
Happy Lab Week 2024! We celebrate laboratory professionals who protect our future by skillfully adapting to meet today's evolving patient care and public health challenges with resilience, innovation, and expertise.
Know an amazing laboratory professional? Tag them below!
Happy Lab Week 2024! We celebrate laboratory professionals who protect our future by skillfully adapting to meet today's evolving patient care and public health challenges with resilience, innovation, and expertise.
Know an amazing laboratory professional? Tag them below!
