Episodes

Sept. 12, 2025

989: HIV and STI Efforts in States

Dr. Sameer Vohra, ASTHO member and director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, discusses the op-ed he co-authored in the Chicago Tribune on the progress his state has made in treating HIV; Brandon Kufalk, STI unit supervisor for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, explains...
Sept. 11, 2025

988: New Data Modernization Expertise, Hearing Loss and Public Health

Dr. Jen Layden, senior vice president for population health and innovation at ASTHO, discusses her previous experience in data modernization and what’s to come as she takes on her new role; Dr. Rick Neitzel, professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public H…
Sept. 10, 2025

987: One Health, Fall Vaccination Season

Dr. Catherine Brown, state epidemiologist and state public health veterinarian at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, discusses ASTHO’s recent meeting with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) and the importance of the One Health approach; a recent ASTHO blog artic…
Sept. 9, 2025

986: Infant Mortality Programs, CHW Alzheimer’s Course

Dr. Lindsay Weaver, ASTHO member and state health commissioner of Indiana, discusses the public health programs that Indiana employed to achieve its lowest infant mortality rate in more than a century; Corinne Gillenwater, chronic disease and health improvement analyst at ASTHO...
Sept. 8, 2025

985: Rural Health Transportation Program, Workplace Communication Skills

Dr. Dan Edney, ASTHO member and state health officer of the Mississippi State Department of Health, and Dr. Susan Kansagra, chief medical officer at ASTHO, discuss the Rural Health Transformation Program and the recent ASTHO panels that covered what states can expect and how some agencies are prepa…
Sept. 5, 2025

984: Childhood Vaccination Efforts; FY26 Public Health Funding

Dr. Arti Barnes, chief medical officer at the Illinois Department of Public Health, describes how her agency is working collaboratively with other state departments to enhance access to pediatric vaccinations; Jeffrey Ekoma, senior director of government affairs at ASTHO, discusses changes to the C…
Sept. 4, 2025

983: Accessible Public Health Data; Disaster Preparedness

Former ASTHO president Dr. Anne Zink, senior clinical fellow at Yale University and practicing emergency medicine physician, shares how PopHIVE, a database of de-identified, population-level health data, draws data from various sources, allowing public health providers to find patterns and make inf…
Sept. 3, 2025

982: Collated Public Health Data; Succession Planning

Former ASTHO president Dr. Anne Zink, senior clinical fellow at Yale University and practicing emergency medicine physician, shares how PopHIVE, an interactive database of de-identified, population-level health data, can help public health providers navigate health trends in their respective jurisd…
Sept. 2, 2025

981: CDC‘s PHIG Perspective

In today's episode of the PHIG Impact Report, Sara Patterson, acting director of CDC’s Public Health Infrastructure Center, details her view of the Public Health Infrastructure Grant.
Aug. 29, 2025

980: New Rural Health Program, Synthetic Opioid Policy Update

Madison Hluchan, ASTHO assistant director of Medicaid and value-based payment, details how a new ASTHO resource can help your team with the Rural Health Transformation Program; and JoAnne Deehr, ASTHO senior analyst for state health policy, shares prevention and response policies to reduce overdose…
Aug. 28, 2025

979: Technical Assistance Infrastructure, Community Health Worker Awareness Week

Christy Roby, local public health performance section supervisor with Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, explains how her agency developed a new technical assistance infrastructure referral system; Chelsea Cipriano, managing director of the Common Health Coalition...
Aug. 27, 2025

978: PHIG Annual Recipient Convening, Rural Public Health Grants

Dr. Joseph Kanter, CEO of ASTHO, joined us from the Public Health Infrastructure Grant Annual Recipient Convening to discuss the importance of public health leaders coming together to learn from one another; Dr. Sameer Vohra, ASTHO member and director of the Illinois Department of Public Health...
Aug. 26, 2025

977: CDC Mental Health Data Channel, PH Education Goals

Dr. Kayla Anderson, senior advisor for mental health and adverse childhood experiences in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, shares how the CDC’s new Mental Health Data Channel streamlines access to essential data and resources that often become siloed by different sources; Dr. …
Aug. 25, 2025

976: New DELPH Cohort, Global Partnership for Telehealth

Keyonie 'Key' James, reproductive health unit manager with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, shares her takeaways as a recent graduate of ASTHO’s Developing Executive Leaders in Public Health program; Suleima Salgado, CEO of the Global Partnership for Telehealth and principal in…
Aug. 22, 2025

975: CANNRA Priorities, ASTHO INSPIRE Web Page

Dr. Gillian Schauer, director of the Cannabis Regulators Association, discusses the recent Cannabis Regulators Association external stakeholders meeting; Amelia Poulin, ASTHO assistant director of emerging infectious disease...
Aug. 21, 2025

974: Rural Health Priorities, Nursing Workforce Focus

Dr. Dan Edney, ASTHO member and state health officer with the Mississippi Department of Health, explains what the state is doing to meet the public health needs of rural communities across the state; Shirley Orr, executive director for the Association of Public Health Nurses...
Aug. 20, 2025

973: Never A Bother Campaign, Expanding Academic Partnerships

Darcy Pickens, program coordinator for the office of suicide prevention at the California Department of Public Health, explains how the state’s “Never a Bother” youth suicide prevention campaign collaborated with youth to develop a campaign tailored to their needs; Courtney Dezendorf, director for …
Aug. 19, 2025

972: PHIG Funding in Data Infrastructure

Dr. Lindsay Weaver, ASTHO member and the state health commissioner for the Indiana Department of Health, discusses how her state is using the Public Health Infrastructure Grant in today's PHIG Impact Report.
Aug. 18, 2025

971: Medicaid & Public Health Team Up, Respiratory Virus Season

Dr. Joseph Kanter, ASTHO CEO, and Kate McEvoy, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, discuss a new partnership between the two organizations; Dr. Joseph Kanter, ASTHO CEO,...
Aug. 15, 2025

970: Respiratory Virus Season Briefing, CICT Course

Dr. Joseph Kanter, ASTHO CEO, Dr. Susan Kansagra, ASTHO chief medical officer, Dr. Scott Harris, ASTHO president and state health Officer for the Alabama Department of Public Health, Dr. Ayanna Bennett, director of the District of Columbia Department of Health, and Dr. Manisha Juthani, ASTHO presid…
Aug. 14, 2025

969: Record Low Infant Mortality, Island Areas Learning Series

Dawn Shanafelt, director of the division of maternal and infant health for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, shares the policies and program that helped the state record its lowest infant mortality rate on record; Dulce Mendoza, senior analyst of island support at ASTHO, explai…
Aug. 13, 2025

968: Long COVID Education, Shah Addresses Public Health Leaders

Dr. Michelle Morse, acting commissioner and chief medical officer for the New York City Health Department, explains how the city’s new video series aims to help educate communities about the impact of Long COVID; Dr. Nirav Shah, ASTHO alum and former principal deputy director at the CDC, discusses …
Aug. 12, 2025

967: Healthcare-Associated Infection Response, Public Cannabis Education

Dr. James Lewis, health officer for the Snohomish County Health Department in Washington State, explains how data can help quicken healthcare-assosciated infection response; Lyla Hunt, deputy director of public health and education at the New York State Office of Cannabis Management, tells us...
Aug. 11, 2025

966: Get To Know ASTHO, Workforce Well-Being

Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO senior vice president of government affairs and public relations, shares more of her story in this installment of "Get To Know ASTHO;" Juliane Walker, public health program specialist at the Wichita State University Community Engagement Institute, discusses the Public Health E…