AmeriCorps Episodes
Oct. 30, 2025
1022: AI Assists Data Infrastructure, AmeriCorps Program Helps Rural Population Needs
Lisa Bari, Vice President of Policy and Partnerships at Innovaccer, shares how public health departments can become better prepared to use AI by addressing their underlying data infrastructure; Angela Davis, Project Coordinator with the Montana Office of Rural Health and Area Health Education Center at Montana State University, explains how they developed a statewide AmeriCorps program grounded in health to address the population health needs of the highly rural state; a new ASTHO State Health P...
Guests: Lisa Bari MBA MPH , Angela Davis, MPA
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April 2, 2025
876: PH Workforce Lessons, Interagency Leadership Convening
Ryan Jury, assistant division director for operational excellence with the Department of Health and Human Services in North Carolina, tells us what he has learned from the ASTHO Leadership Institute and the ASTHO Spring Leadership Forum; Justa Encarnacion...
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March 27, 2025
872: Leadership Skills in Public Health, PH AmeriCorps
Kelly Anderson Thomas, deputy commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health, explains why ASTHO’s Leadership Institute has been so helpful; Ali Grossman, prevention and intervention section supervisor at the Iowa Department of Health and Human...
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March 24, 2025
869: ASTHO Awarded on World TB Day, Island Priorities
Amelia Poulin, assistant director of emerging infectious disease at ASTHO, gives an update on public health’s battle against tuberculosis on World TB Day; Moses Pretrick, assistant secretary for health for the Federated States of Micronesia, tells...
Guests: Amelia Poulin, MPH, PMP, CPH , Moses Pretrick
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March 19, 2025
866: Enhancing Island Workforce, ‘Own The Awk’ Campaign
Soulmaz Rostami, program manager for the Pacific Public Health Fellowship Program, tells us how the program is helping to fill a need for qualified public health workers in the island areas; Susan Gilbert, co-director of the National Coalition for...
Guests: Susan Gilbert, MPA , Soulmaz Rostami MPH
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May 8, 2024
660: Retail Food Safety Barriers, Guam Launches Public Health AmeriCorps
Amber Gibbar, health promotion coordinator for the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, says they have been working for years to dismantle communication barriers in retail food safety; Julia Rivera, program director for the Public Health AmeriCorps...
Guests: Julia Rivera , Amber Gibbar