Performance Improvement Episodes

On today's installment of the PHIG Impact Report, Francyne Wase-Jacklick, ASTHO member and secretary of Health and Human Services for the Republic of the Marshall Islands, discusses how the agency incorporated key performance indicators into its strategic plan to strengthen how public health leaders measure progress, use data, and make decisions.

ASTHO's Greg Papillon, senior director, Public Health Partnerships and Innovation, discusses AI policies and action plans across various jurisdictions and what they reveal about the current state of AI governance, workforce readiness, equity, and oversight.

On today's installment of the PHIG Impact Report, hear from ASTHO's Colton Anderson and DeMatt Harkins from the Mississippi State Department of Health on how a Quality Advisory Group creates a space to share challenges, exchange tools, and build stronger systems for performance management.

In this episode, ASTHO’s Catherine Jones, senior analyst for government affairs, breaks down the 2025 federal government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history, and what made it uniquely disruptive compared to the 2018–2019 closure.

In today's installment of the PHIG Impact Report, Nicole Yerkes, data modernization director with the Utah Department of Health and Human Services, shares how the state is using PHIG funding to advance a unified, future-ready public health data system. She discusses innovations like AI-assisted analysis, real-time lab data exchange, and the power of cross-agency collaboration through Utah's Data Modernization Council. Yerkes also highlights the importance of academic partnerships and sustainable funding to ensure modernization efforts endure and evolve.