PHIG Impact Report Episodes
420
Oct. 21, 2025
1015: PHIG Grant Management Improvements
In today's installment of the PHIG Impact Report, Amy Ferris, chief financial officer at the Washington State Department of Health, shares how her department is using the Public Health Infrastructure Grant to centralize its grant management system.
Guest: Amy Ferris
411
Oct. 7, 2025
1006: PHIG Funding The Future Workforce
In today's installment of the PHIG Impact Report, Celeste Jorge, epidemiologist and evaluator with the Connecticut Department of Public Health, discusses how her department is using the Public Health Infrastructure Grant.
Guest: Celeste Jorge MPH
396
Sept. 16, 2025
991: PHIG Funding + Interoperable Systems
In today's installment of the PHIG Impact Report, Dr. Edward Simmer, ASTHO member and the interim director of the South Carolina Department of Public Health, discusses how his department is using the Public Health Infrastructure Grant.
Guest: Edward Simmer MD MPH
386
Sept. 2, 2025
981: CDC‘s PHIG Perspective
In today's episode of the PHIG Impact Report, Sara Patterson, acting director of CDC’s Public Health Infrastructure Center, details her view of the Public Health Infrastructure Grant.
Guest: Sara Patterson MA
377
Aug. 19, 2025
972: PHIG Funding in Data Infrastructure
Dr. Lindsay Weaver, ASTHO member and the state health commissioner for the Indiana Department of Health, discusses how her state is using the Public Health Infrastructure Grant in today's PHIG Impact Report.
Guest: Lindsay Weaver MD
367
Aug. 5, 2025
962: Data Modernization + PHIG
In today's installment of the PHIG Impact Report, Dr. Brooke Cunningham, ASTHO member and the commissioner of health for the Minnesota Department of Health, discusses how her department is using the Public Health Infrastructure Grant.
Guest: Brooke Cunningham, MD, PhD
359
July 22, 2025
952: PHIG Funding + Data Modernization
In today's PHIG Impact Report, Dr. Robert Goldstein, ASTHO member and the commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, takes us through how his department is using the Public Health Infrastructure Grant.
Guest: Robert Goldstein, MD, PhD
349
July 8, 2025
942: PHIG Funds Critical Services
In today's PHIG Impact Report, Patricia Tilley, associate commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, details the critical needs the Public Health Infrastructure Grant has helped with in her state.
Guest: Patricia Tilley MS Ed
336
June 17, 2025
929: PHIG Funding for PH Workforce
In the latest PHIG Impact Report, Dr. James McDonald, commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, explains how the Public Health Infrastructure Grant strengthens the state’s public health workforce.
Guest: James McDonald, MD, MPH
327
June 3, 2025
919: Local PH Departments + PHIG Funding
In today's 'Investing in Tomorrow: PHIG Impact Report,' Autumn Watson, public health organizational development director for the Mecklenburg County Public Health Department, explains how PHIG is being used at the local level.
Guest: Autumn Watson, MPH, REHS
322
May 27, 2025
914: Island Area PHIG Impacts
In today's PHIG Impact Report, Moses Pretrick, assistant secretary for the Department of Health & Social Affairs with the Federated States of Micronesia, explains how the Public Health Infrastructure Grant has worked for his team.
Guest: Moses Pretrick
513
May 13, 2025
905: PHIG Funding Bolsters Core Capabilities
In today's installment of the 'PHIG Impact Report,' Esther Muña, Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation and Territorial Health Official for the Northern Mariana Islands, explains how their Public Health Infrastructure Grant (PHIG) funds allowed them to improve...
493
April 15, 2025
885: PHIG Funds PH Residency Program
Dr. Jamie Means, workforce development director for the Metro Public Health Department of Nashville and Davidson County, explains how they have used Public Health Infrastructure Grant dollars to fund a public health residency program in the latest PHIG Impact Report.
Guest: Jamie Means DBA MPH SHRM-CP
483
April 1, 2025
875: PHIG Showcases Public Health Success Stories
Dr. Joseph Kanter, ASTHO CEO, gives examples from across the country of success stories that stem from the Public Health Infrastructure Grant in the latest PHIG Impact Report.
Guest: Joseph Kanter, MD, MPH
473
March 18, 2025
865: PHIG Funds Help Create New Office
Dr. Puthiery Va, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, explains how PHIG has helped Maine create a new Office of Violence Prevention in the latest PHIG Impact Report.
Guest: Puthiery Va DO
464
March 4, 2025
855: PHIG Funding Breaks Down Silos
Dr. Sarah Lyon-Callo, senior deputy director for public health administration and the state epidemiologist for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, tells us how the unique ability to use PHIG across sectors helps break down silos in the latest PHIG Impact Report.
Guest: Sarah Lyon-Callo PhD
454
Feb. 18, 2025
845: The Multiple Uses of PHIG
Dr. Laura Herrera Scott, secretary of health for the Maryland Department of Health, explains how her team used the Public Health Infrastructure Grant to fund a myriad of initiatives in the latest PHIG Impact Report.
Guest: Laura Herrera Scott MD MPH
445
Feb. 4, 2025
836: Workforce Investments w/ PHIG
Dr. Manisha Juthani, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health and the ASTHO president-elect, tells us how the Public Health Infrastructure Grant has allowed her team to invest in her workforce’s well-being.
Guest: Manisha Juthani, MD
435
Jan. 21, 2025
826: Rethink Public Health Funding With PHIG
Melissa Magstadt, secretary of health for the South Dakota Department of Health, explains how her state has used Public Health Infrastructure Grant funding to bolster public health.
Guest: Melissa Magstadt CNP MBA
426
Jan. 7, 2025
817: Illinois PHIG Impact Report
Dr. Sameer Vohra, ASTHO member and director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, takes us through how his team is using the Public Health Infrastructure Grant (PHIG) to impact the state of Illinois.
Guest: Sameer Vohra MD JD MA FAAP
416
Dec. 10, 2024
807: ASTHO President Praises PHIG
Dr. Scott Harris, State Health Officer for the Alabama Department of Public Health and the ASTHO President, tells us exactly how his state has benefited from PHIG.
Guest: Scott Harris, MD, MPH
403
Nov. 19, 2024
794: Inaugural PHIG Impact Report Features Kentucky Success
Dr. Steven Stack, commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health and ASTHO’s immediate past president, tells us how his state is using the Public Health Infrastructure Grant to improve the state of public health in Kentucky, in the first PHIG Impact Report segment; ASTHO...
Guest: Steven Stack, MD