Women, Infant, And Family Health Episodes

362: Teen Girls in Crisis, Looking for Diverse Executives
Feb. 22, 2023

362: Teen Girls in Crisis, Looking for Diverse Executives

Robin Matthies, ASTHO’s Director for Public and Behavioral Health Integration, encourages ASTHO members to review a CDC report that says teen girls in the U.S. are in crisis; Harold Gil, a graduate of ASTHO’s Diverse Executives Leading in Public...
Guests: Robin Matthies MSW , Harold Gil MSPH
361: RSV Immunization Considered, Making CPR and AEDs More Common
Feb. 21, 2023

361: RSV Immunization Considered, Making CPR and AEDs More Common

Dr. Christopher Rizzo, Senior U.S. Medical Director for Sanofi, is working on a passive immunization for RSV that could help protect young infants from the virus; Lana McKinney, ASTHO Senior Policy Analyst for State Health Policy, encourages ASTHO...
Guests: Christopher Rizzo MD , Lana McKinney PhD
357: Testing School Vaccination Requirements, Retail Food Safety Focus
Feb. 14, 2023

357: Testing School Vaccination Requirements, Retail Food Safety Focus

Claire Hannan, Executive Director of the Association of Immunization Managers, is worried some who previously supported bills to prevent mandatory COVID vaccinations now might try to also weaken school vaccination requirements; Abe Kulungara, ASTHO...
Guests: Claire Hannan MPH , Abraham Kulungara MPH , Christopher King PhD FACHE
351: A Reporter’s Drug Strategy, Childcare is Public Health
Feb. 6, 2023

351: A Reporter’s Drug Strategy, Childcare is Public Health

Julie Wernau, Health and Science Reporter at The Wall Street Journal, has spent the last year reporting on the opioid crisis and offers some advice for public health; Shannon Vance, ASTHO Senior Analyst for Family & Child Health, says the difficulty...
Guests: Julie Wernau , Shannon Vance MPH
343: Vaccination Disparities, Retail Food Mentorships
Jan. 25, 2023

343: Vaccination Disparities, Retail Food Mentorships

Dr. Shannon Stokley, an Epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, talks about another drop in childhood vaccination rates; Tiara Smith, a Program Analyst for Environmental Health with the National Association of County and...
Guests: Shannon Stokley DrPH , Tiara Smith
341: Investing in PH, Protecting Children
Jan. 23, 2023

341: Investing in PH, Protecting Children

Dr. Nancy Messonnier, Dean of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, says there's still a need for sustained investment in public health three years after the pandemic; Beth Giambrone, ASTHO Senior Analyst for State Health Policy, explains...
Guests: Beth Giambrone MPP , Nancy Messonnier MD
336: MLK in Public Health, Lactation Help for Incarcerated People
Jan. 13, 2023

336: MLK in Public Health, Lactation Help for Incarcerated People

Dr. Kimberlee Wyche Etheridge, ASTHO's Senior Vice President of Health Equity and Diversity Initiatives, reflects on the importance of Dr. King’s message to people working in public health; Shatoria Townsend, ASTHO Senior Analyst for the Maternal...
Guests: Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge MD MPH , Shatoria Townsend MPH
331: Vaccine Hesitancy Study, Diabetes in Palau
Jan. 6, 2023

331: Vaccine Hesitancy Study, Diabetes in Palau

Dr. Kimberly Martin, a President’s Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California San Francisco, says black people likely avoid COVID-19 vaccines because of their distrust of the healthcare system; Antonnette Merur, Chief of Nursing for the...
Guests: Kimberly Martin PhD , Antonnette Merur
330: Reproductive Health, Climate Challenges
Jan. 5, 2023

330: Reproductive Health, Climate Challenges

Dr. Denise Johnson, Acting Secretary of Health for the Pennsylvania Department of Health, says effective reproductive health policies strengthen communities; Dr. Sameer Vohra, Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, says jurisdictions...
Guests: Denise A Johnson MD FACOG FACHE , Sameer Vohra MD JD MA FAAP
329: Synthetic Nicotine, Ending HIV Stigma
Jan. 4, 2023

329: Synthetic Nicotine, Ending HIV Stigma

Rachael Banks, Public Health Director for the Oregon Health Authority, says policymakers need to address the problem of synthetic nicotine; Dr. Scott Harris, State Health Officer for the Alabama Department of Public Health, says stigma often gets in...
Guests: Scott Harris MD MPH FACP FIDSA , Rachael Banks MPA
325: America’s Alarming Preterm Birth Rate
Dec. 16, 2022

325: America’s Alarming Preterm Birth Rate

Dr. Kathryn Mishkin, Head of the Office of Data Science and Mission Strategy with the March of Dimes, discusses the rise in preterm birth in the United States; Emma Carlson, ASTHO Senior Analyst for Environmental Health, says mold and mosquitos are...
Guests: Emma Carlson MPH , Kathryn Mishkin DrPH MPH
295: Island Policy Working Group
Nov. 1, 2022

295: Island Policy Working Group

Karl Ensign, ASTHO’s Vice President for Territorial Support, discusses the idea behind the Island Areas Workgroup, which is celebrating one year of connecting territories, freely associated states, and federal partners; ASTHO is making the case to...
Guests: Karl Ensign , David Goodman PhD
294: Public Health on the Ballot
Oct. 31, 2022

294: Public Health on the Ballot

Jeanne Ayers, Executive Director of Healthy Democracy Healthy People and an ASTHO alum, discusses the impact of voting on public health; Grace Lee, Senior Analyst for Infectious Disease Infrastructure and Policy, authored a blog article about the...
Guests: Jeanne Ayers MPH , Grace Lee MPH CPH
292: Massachusetts Wins Genomics Center Work
Oct. 27, 2022

292: Massachusetts Wins Genomics Center Work

Margret Cooke, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, says the CDC has selected her state to develop one of five Pathogen Genomics Centers of Excellence in the country; there are new and updated Women's Prevention Services...
Guests: Margret Cooke JD , Heather Sebero MPA
287: New Disability Preparedness Toolkit
Oct. 20, 2022

287: New Disability Preparedness Toolkit

Dawn Skaggs, Emergency, Disaster, and Climate Resilience Specialist for the World Institute on Disability, promotes a new Public Health Emergency Planning Toolkit to help agencies better serve people living with disabilities during emergencies; Lillie...
Guests: Dawn Skaggs , Lillie Seels
284: Public Health Careers Website Launches
Oct. 17, 2022

284: Public Health Careers Website Launches

Joanne Pearsol, ASTHO’s Director of Workforce Development discusses the debut of ASTHO’s new public health jobs website, ; an ASTHO blog article assesses Tennessee’s progress on Opioid Use Disorder throughout its maternal and child health...
Guests: Joanne Pearsol MA MCHES , Stephen Shedletzky MBA
283: New National Children’s Health Survey
Oct. 14, 2022

283: New National Children’s Health Survey

Chrissie Juliano, Executive Director of the Big Cities Health Coalition, is joined by local public health directors to discuss public interest in the new COVID-19 booster; ASTHO is working with the National Community Action Partnership and five...
Guests: Chrissie Juliano MPP , Raynard Washington PhD MPH , David Persse MD , Reem Ghandour DrPH
281: Medicaid Approves Housing Waiver
Oct. 12, 2022

281: Medicaid Approves Housing Waiver

Caroline Brazeel, ASTHO’s Senior Director for Population Health and Innovation, discusses two demonstration waivers, one which allows Oregon to provide housing assistance to some people enrolled in Medicaid, that were approved by the Centers for...
Guests: Caroline Brazeel MPH , Scott Shone PhD
280: Promoting the New COVID-19 Booster
Oct. 11, 2022

280: Promoting the New COVID-19 Booster

Dr. Sameer Vohra, Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, explains how he is working to convince more people to get the new COVID-19 booster shot; ASTHO CEO Mike Fraser attends a White House Summit on Indoor Air Quality; Priya Shah, an...
Guests: Sameer Vohra MD JD MA FAAP , Priya Shah MPH
279: Stretching to Improve Equity
Oct. 7, 2022

279: Stretching to Improve Equity

Alicia Justice, ASTHO’s Senior Director for Programmatic Health Equity Initiatives and Strategy, talks about the Strategies to Repair Equity and Transform Community Health project, also known as STRETCH; Danny Staley, ASTHO’s Senior Vice President...
Guests: Alicia Justice MPH , Danny Staley MS
278: How to Push Back on STDs
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
277: Modernize WIC
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
275: PH Can Help End Hunger
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
271: Minnesota Eyes Maternal Disparities
Sept. 27, 2022

271: Minnesota Eyes Maternal Disparities

Dr. Brooke Cunningham, Assistant Commissioner for the Health Equity Bureau with the Minnesota Department of Health, details a report that examined maternal deaths from 2017 to 2018; an ASTHO blog article explains how states and the federal government...
Guests: Maggie Davis JD MA , Brooke Cunningham MD PhD