Episodes

226: CDC’s Multi-Billion Dollar Investment
July 25, 2022

226: CDC’s Multi-Billion Dollar Investment

Nick Davidson, Senior Deputy for Public Health with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, discusses the CDC’s plan to invest almost four billion dollars in public health capacity, workforce, and data upgrades; Dr. Joseph...
Guests: Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge MD MPH , Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Nicholas Davidson MS
225: Health Equity Summit Preview
July 22, 2022

225: Health Equity Summit Preview

Dr. Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge, ASTHO’s Senior Vice President of Health Equity and Diversity Initiatives, previews the goals of next Wednesday’s Health Equity Summit 2022; Dr. Lorraine Backer, Senior Environmental Epidemiologist at the National...
Guests: Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge MD MPH , Lorraine Backer PhD MPH
224: Children’s Mental Health
July 21, 2022

224: Children’s Mental Health

Annie Evans, ASTHO’s Director of Preparedness and Disability Integration, discusses the results of an 18-month project that placed disability and preparedness specialists in jurisdictions across the states and territories; John Clymer with the...
Guests: Annie Evans MPH , Amy Ladley PhD , John Clymer
223: New PFAS Water Quality Advisories
July 20, 2022

223: New PFAS Water Quality Advisories

Bruno Pigott, Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water at the Environmental Protection Agency, calls attention to new drinking water guidance that considers exposure to PFAS chemicals from all sources of exposure; Margret Cooke,...
Guests: Margret Cooke JD , Bruno Pigott
222: Better Data, More Equity
July 19, 2022

222: Better Data, More Equity

Dr. Carlos Oronce, an Advanced Health Services Research Fellow at the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, discusses the challenges of COVID-19 being exacerbated by a lack of good data; Dr. Joseph Kanter, State Health Officer for the Louisiana...
Guests: Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Carlos Oronce MD PhD MPH
221: Massachusetts Opioid Strategy
July 18, 2022

221: Massachusetts Opioid Strategy

Margret Cooke, Commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, reflects on new preliminary data showing possible improvement this year for opioid-related overdose deaths; Dr. Amy Ladley, the State Perinatal Quality Program Manager for...
Guests: Margret Cooke JD , Amy Ladley PhD
220: You Can Help Build the Health Equity Tracker
July 15, 2022

220: You Can Help Build the Health Equity Tracker

Daniel Dawes, Executive Director for the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine, discusses a new Health Equity tracker that recently marked its first year online; ASTHO is talking about equity during its upcoming Health...
Guests: Daniel Dawes JD , Amelia Poulin MPH PMP CPH
219: New Opioid Use Disorder Infographics
July 14, 2022

219: New Opioid Use Disorder Infographics

Sanaa Akbarali, ASTHO’s Senior Director for Maternal and Infant Health, discusses strategies to improve care for pregnant and postpartum people with opioid use disorder; ASTHO produces a special supplement for the American Journal of Public Health...
Guests: Sanaa Akbarali MPH , Gaffar Uherbelau
218: Workforce Listening
July 13, 2022

218: Workforce Listening

Johnny Taylor Jr., President and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, discusses how COVID-19 has forever changed the relationship between employers and their teams; Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt, the Director of the District of Columbia...
Guests: LaQuandra Nesbitt MD MPH , Johnny Taylor Jr.
217: Opioid Abuse Child Impact Task Force
July 12, 2022

217: Opioid Abuse Child Impact Task Force

Dr. Denise Johnson, Acting Secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of Health, outlines the goals of a new task force considering the impact opioid abuse has on children in the state; Jon Rubin, Deputy Secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of...
Guests: Denise A Johnson MD FACOG FACHE , Jon Rubin , Christy Jones MS
216: Best of ME: Teen Mental Health Campaign
July 11, 2022

216: Best of ME: Teen Mental Health Campaign

This special edition revisits a popular episode of Public Health Review Morning Edition from May 24th. Jill Hunsaker Ryan, Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, explains the Forward Together campaign; Dr....
Guests: Jill Hunsaker Ryan MPH , James Bell DSW MSW
215: Best of ME: Consulting School Nurses
July 8, 2022

215: Best of ME: Consulting School Nurses

This special edition revisits a popular episode of Public Health Review Morning Edition from May 19th.   Linda Mendonca, President of the National Association of School Nurses, discusses nurses needing a break, but also wanting more input...
Guests: Linda Mendonca DNP MEd PHNA-BC NCSN FNASN , Thomas Simon PhD
214: Best of ME: Encouraging the Public Health Workforce
July 7, 2022

214: Best of ME: Encouraging the Public Health Workforce

This special edition revisits a popular episode of Public Health Review Morning Edition from May 31st.   Dr. Karyl Rattay, Director of the Delaware Division of Public Health, looks back on the past 13 years of her career in Public Health. She has...
Guest: Karyl Rattay MD MS FAAP
213: Best of ME: A New Way to Address Dementia
July 6, 2022

213: Best of ME: A New Way to Address Dementia

This special edition revisits a popular episode of Public Health Review Morning Edition from June 6th. Chelsea Kline, Associate Director of the Center of Excellence with the Alzheimer's Association, discusses how to address dementia through the social...
Guests: Admiral Rachel Levine MD , Chelsea Kline MPH
212: Best of ME: LGBTQI+ Health Equity
July 5, 2022

212: Best of ME: LGBTQI+ Health Equity

This special edition revisits Episode 201 of Public Health Review Morning Edition from June 16th. Dr. Jan Malcom, Minnesota Health Commissioner, discusses steps to ensuring health equity for people belonging to the nation’s LGBTQI+ community; and...
Guests: Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge MD MPH , Jan Malcolm
211: Monkeypox Response
July 1, 2022

211: Monkeypox Response

Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO’s Chief Medical Officer, discusses the growing concern over the monkeypox virus; Ellen Pliska, ASTHO’s Family and Child Health Senior Director, details a new supplement to the American Journal of Public Health addressing...
Guests: Marcus Plescia MD MPH , Ellen Pliska MHS
210: Responses to Gun Violence
June 30, 2022

210: Responses to Gun Violence

Lindsey Myers, ASTHO’s Vice President for Social and Behavioral Health, discusses a new blog article she authored with Chief Medical Officer Dr. Marcus Plescia about men and gun violence; Dr. Steven Stack, Commissioner of the Kentucky Department for...
Guests: Lindsey Myers MPH , Steven Stack MD , Kini Tinkham
209: New Tool Predicts PH Risks
June 29, 2022

209: New Tool Predicts PH Risks

Dr. Lisa Lines, Senior Health Services Researcher with RTI International, discusses a new tool built to help public health leaders measure, predict, and respond to social factors that impact population health; Kini Tinkham, Executive Director for the...
Guests: Lisa Lines PhD MPH , Kini Tinkham
208: Inclusive Communications Tips
June 28, 2022

208: Inclusive Communications Tips

Susan Laird, a health communications specialist with the CDC, discusses the need to use more inclusive communication when working with individuals or groups; Sheila Nelson, Program Manager for Adolescent Health and Injury Prevention with the Maine Center for...
Guests: Susan Laird DNP MSN RN , Sheila Nelson
207: How to Address Burnout
June 27, 2022

207: How to Address Burnout

Dr. Anne Zink, ASTHO President-Elect, reflects on the problem of burnout among health care providers; Amelia Poulin, Senior Analyst for Infectious Disease Outbreak Response and Recovery at ASTHO, discusses the importance of COVID-19 case investigators...
Guests: Anne Zink MD FACEP , Amelia Poulin MPH PMP CPH
206: New Tobacco Policy Recommendations
June 24, 2022

206: New Tobacco Policy Recommendations

Dawn Berkowitz, Chair of the Tobacco Control Network Executive Committee, discusses a new policy recommendations guide released by the group; Liz Hendrix, the Policy Control Officer for the Tobacco Control Network Executive Committee details what she...
Guests: Ellen Pliska MHS , Dawn Berkowitz MPH , Liz Hendrix MPP
205: Why Listening is Important in Public Health
June 23, 2022

205: Why Listening is Important in Public Health

Dr. Randall Williams, Missouri’s former Director of the Department of Health and Senior Services, joins us for a special edition of the newscast to discuss his upcoming book and the importance of listening in public health.
Guest: Randall Williams MD
204: Smart Approaches to Brain Health
June 22, 2022

204: Smart Approaches to Brain Health

Dr. Jewell Mullen, Associate Dean for Health Equity in the Office of Health Equity at The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, offers her assessment of the work that still needs to be done to address Alzheimer’s and related concerns;...
Guests: Jewell Mullen MD MPH MPA , Stephen Flores PhD
203: Support for Syringe Services
June 21, 2022

203: Support for Syringe Services

Dr. Denise Johnson, Pennsylvania’s Acting Secretary of Health, explains how a statewide law permitting syringe services would give cover and funding to local programs trying to battle the opioid epidemic; Laura Edison, an epidemiologist in the...
Guests: Denise A Johnson MD FACOG FACHE , Laura Edison DVM MPH