Business Process Improvement Episodes
April 20, 2026
1109: Modernizing Grants Management
In this episode, ASTHO's Colton Anderson explains how agencies across the country are rethinking and improving their grants management processes.
Guest: Colton Anderson, MPH, CHES
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Aug. 14, 2025
969: Record Low Infant Mortality, Island Areas Learning Series
Dawn Shanafelt, director of the division of maternal and infant health for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, shares the policies and program that helped the state record its lowest infant mortality rate on record; Dulce Mendoza, senior analyst of island support at ASTHO, explains...
Guests: Dulce Mendoza , Dawn Shanafelt MPA BSN RN
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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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July 18, 2024
709: Guam’s Business Process Improvement Program, Leveraging Medicaid to Support CHWs
Karl Ensign, ASTHO vice president of island support, tells us about ASTHO’s work on the Guam Interagency Business Process Improvement Program to Strengthen Administrative Capacity project; Diana Crumley, former associate director of delivery system...
Guests: Karl Ensign , Diana Crumley JD MPAff
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June 14, 2024
686: Community Tobacco Control Strategies, Health Equity Science
Ashley Hebert, senior program manager for Community and Government Relations with The Center for Black Health & Equity, says despite challenges organizations must continue their work to protect communities of color from tobacco industry campaigns;...