Public Health Episodes

Oct. 1, 2024

761: Public Health Career Pathway, OTC Syphilis Test

Dr. Steven Stack, MD, MBA, Commissioner for Public Health and Chief Medical Officer, Commonwealth of Kentucky, and ASTHO President, discusses a partnership with HBCU Kentucky State University to bolster the public health workforce; Julia Greenspan,...

Guests: Julia Greenspan MPH CHES , Steven Stack MD

Sept. 6, 2024

744: ICF AI Webinar, Colorado’s New Mentorship Program

John Auerbach, senior vice president for health at ICF, previews an upcoming webinar on AI; Paula Lee, manager of public health training at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Office of Public Health Practice, Planning, and...

Guests: John Auerbach , Paula J. Lee PhD MAPM MAR , Monica Johnson MA LPC

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,...

Guests: Gillian SteelFisher PhD MSc , Jeffrey Ekoma , Tabatha Offutt-Powell DrPH MPH

June 21, 2024

690: Medicaid Letter Supports Territories, FDA Food Code Resources

ASTHO CEO Dr. Joseph Kanter and Executive Director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, Kate McEvoy, have sent a letter to Congress to lift the Medicaid funding cap on all U.S. territories and approve a permanent 83 percent federal...

Guests: Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Heather Tomlinson , Maria Sarabia , Kate McEvoy JD

April 9, 2024

639: Workforce Pipeline Progress, Strategies to Reduce Congenital Syphilis

AJ Pearlman, director of Public Health AmeriCorps, says more than 4-thousand people are learning about public health as part of the program; Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, director of the Ohio Department of Health, and Dr. Debra Bogen, acting secretary of...

Guests: Anne Zink MD FACEP , Bruce Vanderhoff MD MBA , AJ Pearlman JD , Debra Bogen MD FAAP

March 29, 2024

632: National Public Health Week Goes Local, ASTHO Launches Healthy Brain Resources

Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director at the American Public Health Association, tells us about this year’s National Public Health Week which kicks off on Monday; Kellie Waugh, ASTHO analyst for health improvement and healthy aging, describes a...

Guests: Georges Benjamin MD , Jill Hunsaker Ryan MPH , Kellie Waugh MPH(c)

March 19, 2024

624: Balance Can Benefit PH Authority, Vending Kiosks Offer COVID and Flu Tests

Dr. Michelle Mello, professor of law at Stanford Law School and professor of health policy at Stanford University School of Medicine, studied state lawmakers’ response to the use of public health authority during the pandemic; Dr. Tao Sheng...

Guests: Tao Sheng Kwan-Gett MD MPH , Michelle Mello JD PhD MPhil

March 7, 2024

616: Social Media Epidemic, States Act to Address Youth Eating Disorders

Dr. Matthew Biel, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Georgetown University Medical Center, tells us social media is not necessarily a good part of childhood; Lexa Giragosian, ASTHO senior analyst for Maternal and Infant Health, says...

Guests: Lexa Giragosian MPH , Matthew Biel MD MSc

March 5, 2024

614: New ASTHO CEO Announced

Dr. Steven Stack, ASTHO president and commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health, announces Dr. Joseph Kanter, ASTHO alum, as incoming CEO; Dr. Joseph Kanter, ASTHO’s newly-announced CEO, who joins ASTHO from the Louisiana Department of...

Guests: Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Steven Stack MD

Sept. 6, 2023

497: New Approach to ACEs Prevention, Climate Challenges Lead to Cooperation

Safia Khan, Deputy Commissioner and Chief of Staff at the Minnesota Department of Corrections, outlines how the Healthy Start Act will reduce the negative impact of adverse childhood experiences in Minnesota; Danny Staley, ASTHO’s Senior Vice...

Guests: Danny Staley , Safia Khan

Aug. 11, 2023

480: RSV Messaging, Emergency Contraception

Hear from the experts who participated in an ASTHO online briefing on the coming RSV season; Sophia Durant, ASTHO’s Analyst of Family and Child Health, says access to emergency contraception is a health equity issue; and an ASTHO virtual session...

Guests: Anne Zink MD FACEP , Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Manisha Juthani MD , Sophia Durant MPH MSW

June 30, 2023

452: Making Federal Connections, Malaria in the U.S.

Dr. Anne Zink, ASTHO President and Chief Medical Officer for Alaska Department of Health, explains best practices for building connections with the federal government; Dr. Benjamin Beard, Deputy Director of the CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Diseases,...

Guests: Benjamin Beard PhD MS , Anne Zink MD FACEP , John Auerbach

June 29, 2023

451: Higher Ed Partnership, Leadership Graduate Insights

Arnaldo Machado, Director of Public Health Workforce Development and Resilience at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, talks about a new program that connects public health students with the workforce; ClarLynda Williams-DeVane, Deputy...

Guests: Admiral Rachel Levine MD , Arnaldo Machado , ClarLynda Williams-DeVane PhD

June 28, 2023

450: A Call for Data, Lead Poisoning Prevention

Dr. Janelle Palacios, Nurse Midwife and Researcher at Kaiser Permanente, says we need better data on the health challenges facing American Indian and Alaska Native mothers and their babies; Dr. Clifford Mitchell, Director of the Environmental Health...

Guests: Palina Louangketh DSL MHS , Janelle Palacios PhD CNM , Clifford Mitchell MD MPH

June 27, 2023

449: PH’s Data Challenge, Scholarly Advice

William Kassler, Chief Medical Officer for Palantir Technologies, calls for a comprehensive and collaborative approach to understanding health data; Krystle White, Manager of Health Equity Outcomes for the Gaston County Government in North Carolina,...

Guests: Krystle White MPA , Amy Rubis MPH , William Kassler MD