Public Health AmeriCorps Episodes

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dr. Joseph Kanter, ASTHO CEO, brings us an update directly from ASTHO’s 2025 Spring Leadership Forum; and an upcoming webinar focuses on the positive impact Public Health AmeriCorps can provide.

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...

AJ Pearlman, director of Public Health AmeriCorps, says more than 4-thousand people are learning about public health as part of the program; Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, director of the Ohio Department of Health, and Dr. Debra Bogen, acting secretary of...