Social Determinants Of Health Episodes

March 15, 2024

622: High Food Costs Hurt WIC, Proposed Budget Breakdown

Dr. Scott Harris, state health officer with the Alabama Department of Public Health and ASTHO Member, recalls his recent visit to Congress a few weeks ago; Jeffrey Ekoma, ASTHO senior director for Government Affairs, says AS…
Dec. 22, 2023

570: Policies Protect Health Data, Series Serves as Early-Warning System, ASTHO’s 2024 Federal Legislative Agenda

Lillian Colasurdo, ASTHO director of Public Health Law and Data Sharing, discusses work to protect consumer data gathered from a growing number of health-related transactions; Mike Fraser, ASTHO CEO, reacts to the legislativ…
June 1, 2023

432: An Equity Champion, Leaders Wanted

Dr. Palina Louangketh, Chief of the Bureau of Equity and Strategic Partnerships at the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, explains how her bureau is making healthcare in Idaho more equitable; Dr. Marissa Levine, Directo…
May 24, 2023

427: PH Equity Corps Experience, Academy to Eliminate Structural Racism

Erika Akers, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Equity Corps Fellow, says the fellowship helped develop a health equity lens that she brings into her career; Wilma Alvarado-Little, New York State …
May 5, 2023

414: Five Mental Health Steps, Corporate Health Equity

Schroeder Stribling, President and CEO of Mental Health America, says focusing on early prevention and wellness activities can improve mental health outcomes; the Public Health Review podcast has a new episode on STI care mo…
May 2, 2023

411: Racism Linked to Heart Disease, Benefits of Diverse Leadership

Shanshan Sheehy, Epidemiologist and Assistant Professor at Boston University, studies the correlation between racism and heart disease among black women; Alonza Pamplin, Communicable Disease Supervisor for the Wake County De…
April 27, 2023

408: Childhood Toxic Stress, Encouraging Exercise

Dr. Nathaniel Harnett, Assistant Professor at The Harvard Medical School, discusses findings from his study connecting early childhood stress to mental health problems; Dr. Alison Cuellar, Chair of the Community Preventive S…
April 6, 2023

393: Mental Health is Public Health, Washington Post Opinion

On Day Four of National Public Health Week, Dr. Mark Levine, Commissioner of Health at the Vermont Department of Health, says mental health must be considered if we want to advance public health; Kate Woodsome with the Washi…
March 27, 2023

385: ASTHO Budget Pitch, Workforce Policy Approaches

Dr. Anne Zink, ASTHO President and Alaska Chief Medical Officer, testifies before a House appropriations subcommittee in Washington D.C. seeking sustainable and flexible public health funding; Maggie Davis, ASTHO’s Director …
March 22, 2023

382: Suicide Rates Climbing, Mental Health Funding Opportunities

Deborah Stone, Behavioral Scientist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, explains that after two consecutive years of declines, U.S. suicide rates increased in 2021, nearly returning to their 2018 peak; Hanna…
Feb. 24, 2023

364: Illinois’ COVID-19 Experience, Khaldun’s Equity Plan for CVS

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…
Feb. 23, 2023

363: Live to the Beat Campaign, Pandemic Take-Away

Kinetra Joseph, Campaign Director for the CDC Foundation, says the Foundation’s Live to the Beat initiative has had a successful first year; Dr. Christopher King, Dean of the Georgetown University School of Health, spent muc…
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 Executi…
Feb. 7, 2023

352: Redefining Community Safety, New Capitol Hill Leadership

Chrissie Juliano, Executive Director of the Big Cities Health Coalition, says the Community Safety Campaign is about making sure people who live in communities have livable wages, and affordable and safe housing; Carolyn McC…
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 He…