Episodes - Page 26 | Public Health Review Morning Edition

Nov. 7, 2022

299: Pediatric Respiratory Cases Cause Concern

Dr. Anne Zink, ASTHO President, releases a statement addressing the response to a spike in respiratory infections; Dr. Jose Romero, Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC, addresses the latest concerns...

Guests: Anne Zink MD FACEP , Jose Romero MD , Jeanne Ayers MPH , JoAnne McClure MSW , Dawn O'Connell JD

Nov. 4, 2022

298: Washington’s Opioid Agreement

Dr. Umair Shah, Secretary of Health for the State of Washington, discusses a settlement with three companies the state says played a key role in driving the opioid epidemic; Donna Levin, Director of Act for Public Health, discusses the legal landscape...

Guests: Umair Shah MD MPH , Donna Levin JD

Nov. 3, 2022

297: Virus Triple Threat

Dr. Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge, ASTHO’s Senior Vice President of Health Equity and Diversity Initiatives, discusses concerns with RSV infections and the triple threat that comes with treating those cases at the same time people are getting sick with...

Guests: Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge MD MPH , Mark Starr DVM

Nov. 2, 2022

296: Data Model for Violence Prevention

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 Informatics, examines a...

Guests: Steven Stack MD , Ankur Jain

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

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

Oct. 28, 2022

293: Delaware Youth Go Positive in New Campaign

Katie Capelli, an Epidemiologist in the Office of Health Crisis Response at the Delaware Division of Public Health, discusses a new public service campaign to promote a positive, drug free, lifestyle to youth across the state; Dr. Umair Shah,...

Guests: Umair Shah MD MPH , Katie Capelli MPH

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

Oct. 26, 2022

291: Vermont’s New “Facing Suicide” Campaign

Dr. Mark Levine, Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Health, discusses the state’s new Facing Suicide VT campaign, which focuses on encouraging people to discuss the issue of suicide; ASTHO is working with states and territories to highlight...

Guest: Mark Levine MD

Oct. 25, 2022

290: Healthy Aging Policy Trends

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 District of Columbia...

Guests: Erica Pan MD MPH , LaQuandra Nesbitt MD MPH , Claire Pendergrast MPH

Oct. 24, 2022

289: Monkeypox Communication Strategies

Dr. Carlton Thomas, a gastroenterologist in San Diego, discusses a recent CDC report on monkeypox which he says is an argument in favor of communicating on mobile apps and other platforms that are familiar to people in at-risk communities; Kyle...

Guests: Kyle Gasaway , Carlton Thomas MD

Oct. 21, 2022

288: ACIP Immunization Decisions Explained

In a special episode of the newscast, Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO’s Chief Medical Officer, explains the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices decision earlier this week. The committee voted Thursday to add pediatric COVID-19 vaccines to...

Guest: Marcus Plescia MD MPH

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

Oct. 19, 2022

286: Creative Vaccine Strategies

Margaret Jaco Manecke, the Director of Practice Improvement at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, is looking for public health professionals to join the Council’s next annual learning community; an ASTHO work group recommends improvements to...

Guests: Geetika Nadkarni MPH , Margaret Jaco Manecke MSSW

Oct. 18, 2022

285: COVID-19 Spending Oversight

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 Health Systems and...

Guests: Jeffrey Ekoma , Heidi Westermann MPH

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

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

Oct. 13, 2022

282: Pandemic Achievements

Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO’s Chief Medical Officer, talks about an article he helped author in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, which discusses the work public health did in response to the pandemic; Bea Martinez, Southern...

Guests: Marcus Plescia MD MPH , Bea Martinez

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

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

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

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

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

Oct. 4, 2022

276: Learning from NASA

Dr. Judy Monroe, President and CEO of the CDC Foundation, says public health could learn a lot from America’s space agency; Joshua Berry, ASTHO’s Director of Chronic Disease Risk Factors, discusses ways that ASTHO remains focused on providing...

Guests: Joshua Berry MPH , Judy Monroe MD