Peer Support Networks Episodes

Aug. 28, 2025

979: Technical Assistance Infrastructure, Community Health Worker Awareness Week

Christy Roby, local public health performance section supervisor with Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, explains how her agency developed a new technical assistance infrastructure referral system; Chelsea Cipriano, managing director of the Common Health Coalition...
Aug. 27, 2025

978: PHIG Annual Recipient Convening, Rural Public Health Grants

Dr. Joseph Kanter, CEO of ASTHO, joined us from the Public Health Infrastructure Grant Annual Recipient Convening to discuss the importance of public health leaders coming together to learn from one another; Dr. Sameer Vohra, ASTHO member and director of the Illinois Department of Public Health...
Aug. 7, 2025

964: MAHA Report, Subrecipient Monitoring

Dr. Susan Kansagra, chief medical officer for ASTHO, discusses the recent Make America Healthy Again report, and the work done by state and territorial health departments that intersects with the report’s themes; Ryan Daly, deputy director of finance and operations for the Nebraska Department of He…
June 21, 2024

690: Medicaid Letter Supports Territories, FDA Food Code Resources

ASTHO CEO Dr. Joseph Kanter and Executive Director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, Kate McEvoy, have sent a letter to Congress to lift the Medicaid funding cap on all U.S. territories and approve a permanent 83 percent federal...