Women, Infant, And Family Health Episodes
362: Teen Girls in Crisis, Looking for Diverse Executives
Feb. 22, 2023
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…
361: RSV Immunization Considered, Making CPR and AEDs More Common
Feb. 21, 2023
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 P…
357: Testing School Vaccination Requirements, Retail Food Safety Focus
Feb. 14, 2023
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 requiremen…
351: A Reporter’s Drug Strategy, Childcare is Public Health
Feb. 6, 2023
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…
343: Vaccination Disparities, Retail Food Mentorships
Jan. 25, 2023
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 A…
341: Investing in PH, Protecting Children
Jan. 23, 2023
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 Stat…
336: MLK in Public Health, Lactation Help for Incarcerated People
Jan. 13, 2023
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 An…
331: Vaccine Hesitancy Study, Diabetes in Palau
Jan. 6, 2023
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, Ch…
330: Reproductive Health, Climate Challenges
Jan. 5, 2023
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 He…
329: Synthetic Nicotine, Ending HIV Stigma
Jan. 4, 2023
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, …
325: America’s Alarming Preterm Birth Rate
Dec. 16, 2022
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, say…
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…
294: Public Health on the Ballot
Oct. 31, 2022
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 …
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…
287: New Disability Preparedness Toolkit
Oct. 20, 2022
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…