Public Health Ethics Episodes

July 17, 2025

949: Improved Leadership in Public Health, Wastewater Surveillance

Laura Knights, CEO and founder of Knights Consulting, shares what the second installment of ASTHO’s Ignite, Accelerate, Activate series has to offer public health leadership; Dr. Anil Mangla, director for disease surveillance and control at the South Nevada Health District...
July 16, 2025

948: ASTHO CEO on PH Workforce Data, STI Testing Trends

Dr. Joseph Kanter, ASTHO CEO, shares how ASTHO will use the Public Health Workforce Interest and Needs Survey (PH WINS) to guide national public health priorities; Emma Pliskin, research scientist at Child Trends, shares what their new study reveals about trends in STI testing...
June 16, 2025

928: Approachable AI for Public Health

Truc Taylor, director of health data analytics at Guidehouse and a founding member of ASTHO’s Innovation Advisory Council, a new multisector collaborative of private sector partners to help ASTHO’s membership and leadership...
March 20, 2025

867: Ethics of Wastewater Surveillance, Opioid Funding for Next Two Decades

Allison Wheeler, wastewater surveillance unit manager at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, and co-director of the Wastewater Center of Excellence in Colorado, tells us about a recently published ASTHO report on ethical considerations in public health wastewater surveillance;…
Jan. 31, 2025

834: AI & PH Comms, HPAI Symposium Still Relevant

Robert Jennings, executive director of the National Public Health Information Coalition, is currently working on guidelines for AI use in public health communications; Dr. Scott Harris, ASTHO president and the state health officer for the Alabama...