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Oct. 28, 2022

293: Delaware Youth Go Positive in New Campaign

Katie Capelli, an Epidemiologist in the Office of Health Crisis Response at the Delaware Division of Public Health, discusses a new public service campaign to promote a positive, drug free, lifestyle to youth across the state; Dr. Umair Shah,...

Guests: Umair Shah MD MPH , Katie Capelli MPH

Oct. 26, 2022

291: Vermont’s New “Facing Suicide” Campaign

Dr. Mark Levine, Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Health, discusses the state’s new Facing Suicide VT campaign, which focuses on encouraging people to discuss the issue of suicide; ASTHO is working with states and territories to highlight...

Guest: Mark Levine MD

Oct. 19, 2022

286: Creative Vaccine Strategies

Margaret Jaco Manecke, the Director of Practice Improvement at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, is looking for public health professionals to join the Council’s next annual learning community; an ASTHO work group recommends improvements to...

Guests: Geetika Nadkarni MPH , Margaret Jaco Manecke MSSW

Oct. 6, 2022

278: How to Push Back on STDs

Dr. Leandro Mena, Director of the Division of STD Prevention at the CDC, discusses the latest preliminary data that counts 2.5 million reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis last year; Reyna Olaguez, Executive Director of South Kern Sol,...

Guests: Leandro Mena MD MPH , Reyna Olaguez MPA

Oct. 5, 2022

277: Modernize WIC

Brian Dittmeier, Senior Director of Public Policy for the National WIC Association, discusses ways to modernize the WIC program; Ali Hard, Senior Policy Advisor for Strategic Initiatives at the USDA, says states have more flexibility to work with...

Guests: Brian Dittmeier JD , Ali Hard MS RD , Allison Budzinski MSW CAPSW CWWS

Oct. 3, 2022

275: PH Can Help End Hunger

ASTHO CEO Michael Fraser reflects on last week’s White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health; Dr. Nirav Shah, ASTHO Immediate Past President and Director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, makes a seasonal vaccine...

Guests: Nirav Shah MD JD , Michael Fraser PhD MS CAE FCPP , Jessica Frain MSW

Sept. 29, 2022

273: Classroom Mental Health

Dr. Sharon Hoover, Co-Director of the National Center for School Mental Health, describes how students are wrestling with mental health challenges; Stephen Massey, Director of the Health Action Alliance, discusses a playbook to guide businesses...

Guests: Stephen Massey MIA , Sharon Hoover PhD

Sept. 28, 2022

272: Oregon’s Regional Health Equity Coalitions

Jeffrey Ekoma, ASTHO’s Senior Director of Government Affairs, discusses a White House summit he attended in recognition of National Recovery Month; Mike Fraser, ASTHO’s CEO is heading to the White House for the bipartisan Conference on Hunger,...

Guests: Jeffrey Ekoma , Danielle Droppers MSW

Sept. 22, 2022

268: ACEs Legislative Scan

Dr. Jonathan Purtle, Associate Professor at New York University's School of Global Public Health, discusses an ASTHO report on preventing adverse childhood experiences; Lisa Peterson, ASTHO’s Senior Director for Preparedness, talks about ASTHO’s...

Guests: Lisa Peterson MPH , Jonathan Purtle DrPH , Stephen Massey MIA

Sept. 15, 2022

263: Youth Worried About Climate Change

Rachael Banks, Public Health Director for the Oregon Health Authority Division of Public Health, discusses the results of a new study exploring the connections between climate change and youth mental health; Rebecca Fronberg, Program Manager at the...

Guests: Rachael Banks MPA , Rebecca Fronberg

Sept. 6, 2022

256: Helping Youth in Crisis

Heather Sebero, ASTHO Senior Analyst for Social and Behavioral Health, discusses the alarming mental health crisis impacting young people across the country; Dr. Anne Zink, ASTHO President-Elect and the Chief Medical Officer for the State of Alaska,...

Guests: Anne Zink MD FACEP , Heather Sebero MPA

Sept. 2, 2022

255: New Naloxone Strategy

Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta, Innovation Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, discusses a new way to get more generic Naloxone to people who need it; Colorado works with six counties to respond to...

Guests: Nabarun Dasgupta PhD MPH , Greg Holzman MD MPH

Aug. 31, 2022

253: Breastfeeding Policies

Deborah Backman, ASTHO’s Senior Analyst for Maternal and Infant Health, calls attention to policies in place to protect breastfeeding during National Breastfeeding Month; Dr. Gary Anthone, Chief Medical Officer and Director of Public Health for the...

Guests: Deborah Backman MPH , Gary Anthone MD

Aug. 9, 2022

237: New School Year, New COVID-19 Strategy

Dr. Manisha Juthani, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health, discusses the state’s plan to help schools deal with COVID-19 this fall and how it is different than past years; the CDC has a website for back-to-school public health...

Guests: Manisha Juthani MD , Aashna Panjwani MPH

Aug. 4, 2022

234: PH WINS Survey Released

Dr. Brian Castrucci, de Beaumont Foundation President and CEO, discusses the concerning results of the latest PH Wins Survey of nearly 45,000 public health workers across the nation; ASTHO is teaming with the Association of Maternal and Child...

Guests: Brian Castrucci DrPh MA , Stacy Collins MSW