Surveys Episodes
July 14, 2026
1165: Colorado's Healthy Kids Survey Reveals Encouraging Trends for Youth Well-Being
Emily Fine, school and youth survey manager in the Prevention Services Division at the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment, highlights how findings from the 2025 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey showcased record low rates of persistent sadness, suicidal thoughts, and suicide attempts among youth.
Guest: Emily Fine
June 24, 2026
1152: Building a Strong Public Health Workforce Through Onboarding
On today's episode, Mary Ramirez from the South Carolina Department of Public Health discusses the agency’s innovative onboarding program for new employees.
Guest: Mary Ramirez
Dec. 18, 2025
1045: Bringing Island Voices Into the Data: Inside the First PH WINS Territories Survey
For the first time, all eight U.S. territories and freely associated states have been included in PH-WINS, or the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey. Rachel Hare Bork joins the show to discuss how this landmark pilot effort came together, why it took extensive travel and collaboration to make it happen, and what the results reveal about the public health workforce across the islands.
Guest: Rachel Hare Bork PhD
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
329
Aug. 2, 2024
720: Poll Reveals Trust-Building Opportunities, Congress Preps for Recess
Dr. Gillian SteelFisher, director of global polling at the Harvard Opinion Research Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, tells us what a new national poll says about people and their public health priorities; Jeffrey Ekoma,...
288
June 5, 2024
679: Community Health Workers Need Sustained Funding, Pediatricians Feel Ill-Equipped to Help Teens Struggling with Addiction
Denise Octavia Smith, executive director of the National Association of Community Health Workers, discusses the need for sustained funding for Community Health Workers; and Dr. Scott Hadland, chief of Adolescent Medicine at Mass General for Children,...