Public Health Data And Technology Episodes
376: Dire Workforce Prediction, PH Tech Talk
March 14, 2023
Dr. Brian Castrucci, President and CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation, says workforce data indicates public health agencies could lose nearly 130,000 employees by 2025; J.T. Lane, ASTHO’s Senior Vice President for Population…
364: Illinois’ COVID-19 Experience, Khaldun’s Equity Plan for CVS
Feb. 24, 2023
Dr. Sameer Vorha, Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, is taking note of the disparities laid bare by COVID-19 in a new guest column written for the Chicago Sun-Times; Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, Vice President and…
359: Vermont’s Pandemic Communications, Gun Violence Grant
Feb. 16, 2023
Dr. Mark Levine, Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Health, offers his colleagues some advice in a new ASTHO video about improving public health through data and communication; Dr. David Grossman, Vice President for S…
342: Racial Healing, Tech Helps Messaging
Jan. 24, 2023
Caroline Brunton, Program Officer for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, talks about the National Day of Racial Healing first celebrated by the Foundation seven years ago; Dr. Brannon Traxler, Director of Public Health with the So…
340: Climate + Health Equity, ARPA Benefits
Jan. 20, 2023
Dr. Umair Shah, Secretary of Health for the Washington State Department of Health, is establishing connections between climate change, environmental justice, and health equity; Dr. David Gifford, Chief Medical Officer at the…
296: Data Model for Violence Prevention
Nov. 2, 2022
Dr. Steven Stack, ASTHO President-Elect and Kentucky Public Health Commissioner, discusses Kentucky’s new online system to report foodborne illnesses; Ankur Jain, ASTHO Senior Analyst for Public Health Data Modernization and…
295: Island Policy Working Group
Nov. 1, 2022
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; ASTH…
292: Massachusetts Wins Genomics Center Work
Oct. 27, 2022
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…
290: Healthy Aging Policy Trends
Oct. 25, 2022
Claire Pendergrast, ASTHO Senior Analyst for Health Improvement and Healthy Aging, discusses a survey of healthy aging policy actions enacted across the states and territories; Dr. LeQuandra Nesbitt, former Director of the D…
285: COVID-19 Spending Oversight
Oct. 18, 2022
Jeffrey Ekoma, ASTHO’s Senior Director of Government Affairs, says oversight of COVID-19 spending might increase if midterm elections lead to change in U.S. House leadership ; Heidi Westermann, ASTHO’s Director of Public Hea…
274: Disaster Planning Tools
Sept. 30, 2022
Annie Evans, ASTHO’s Director of Preparedness and Disability Integration, talks about two tools that examine the needs of people living with disabilities who suffer disproportionate impacts of disasters; Dr. Kristina Box, St…
267: Managing Septic Grants
Sept. 21, 2022
Lance Gregory, Environmental Health Division Director with the Virginia Department of Health, discusses Septic Smart Week and the demand for the agency’s Septic and Well Assistance Program; Joel Cantor, Director of the Rutge…
265: Maternal Health Crisis Blueprint
Sept. 19, 2022
Dr. Jamila Perritt, President and CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health, discusses the White House Blueprint for Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis; Emma Talkington, ASTHO Environmental Health Analyst, explains why AS…
259: Training for Diverse Public Health Pros
Sept. 9, 2022
Jill Miller, Interim Deputy Director, Family Health Services, Alameda County Public Health Department, shares how she learned new leadership skills as a scholar in ASTHO’s Diverse Executives Leading in Public Health program;…
246: Back to School Concerns
Aug. 22, 2022
Dylan George, Director of Operations for the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics with the CDC, discusses trying to evaluate the factors that could drive more COVID-19 infections in the fall as kids return to school…