Season 2 - Page 4 | Public Health Review Morning Edition

Nov. 23, 2022

310: Teaching Vaccine Advocates

Becky Christensen, Founder and Campaign Director for Science and Families Engaging Communities Coalition and Action Fund, discusses protecting public access to vaccines; Kinetra Joseph, Campaign Director for the CDC Foundation, explains the...

Nov. 22, 2022

309: South Dakota’s Tribal Partnerships

Dr. Georges Benjamin, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association, discusses how the organization’s 150th anniversary was celebrated at its annual meeting held recently in Boston; Joan Adam, Secretary of the South Dakota Department...

Nov. 21, 2022

308: Thankful for People in Public Health

Dr. Anne Zink, ASTHO President and Chief Medical Officer of the Alaska Department of Health, shares some encouraging words to celebrate Public Health Thank You Day; Mike Fraser, ASTHO CEO, appreciates the significance of Public Health Thank You Day,...

Guests: Anne Zink MD FACEP , Michael Fraser PhD MS CAE FCPP , Beth Giambrone MPP

Nov. 17, 2022

307: New Congress Means More Oversight

Susan Best, Program Manager for the Division of Food and Lead Risk Assessment with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, discusses the implementation of virtual restaurant inspections; Devon Page, ASTHO Government Affairs...

Nov. 17, 2022

306: A Strategy to Ban Menthol

Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO Chief Medical Officer, discusses the important role states and local jurisdictions have in removing flavored tobacco products, including menthol, from the market; Tamira Moon, ASTHO’s Director of Health Equity and Diversity...

Nov. 16, 2022

305: Prepping for Ebola

Dr. David Lakey, former Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, discusses the Texas response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak as a wave of Ebola cases in Uganda expands; Robert Gottlieb, a GIS Data Analyst for the Indiana Department...

Nov. 15, 2022

304: COVID-19’s Lessons on Homelessness

Dr. Emily Mosites, Senior Advisor on Special Populations for the CDC, discusses lessons learned from work done during the pandemic to help people experiencing homelessness; Heather Krasna, Associate Dean of Career Services at the Columbia University...

Nov. 14, 2022

303: A Win for Public Health

Dr. Judy Monroe, CDC Foundation President and CEO, announces ASTHO as one of the winners of the 2022 Fries Prize for Improving Health; Ericka McGowan, ASTHO Senior Director for Emerging Infection Disease, discusses a new CDC report about racial and...

Nov. 10, 2022

302: Veterans Working in Public Health

In a special edition of the newscast, we celebrate Veterans Day with thoughts from two veterans working in public health: Keith Reed, Oklahoma Commissioner of Health, is a registered nurse and a colonel in the Oklahoma Air National Guard and Dr....

Guests: Keith Reed RN MPH , Edward Simmer, MD, MPH , Edward Simmer MD MPH

Nov. 9, 2022

301: Health in All Policies Primer

Kerry Wyss, ASTHO’s Director of Environmental Health, outlines a new report about the value of a Health in All Policies approach to public health; Ali Aslam, ASTHO’s Senior Analyst for Environmental Health, discusses how grantmakers can...

Guests: Kerry Wyss , Donna Levin JD , Ali Aslam MPH

Nov. 8, 2022

300: New Tool for Suicide, Overdose, ACEs

Caitlin Langhorne Griffith, ASTHO’s Director of Behavioral Health, unveils a new public health tool known as SPACECAT, or Suicide, Overdose and Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Capacity Assessment Tool; Talyah Sands, ASTHO Director of Health...

Guests: Talyah Sands MPH , Grace Lee MPH CPH , Caitlin Langhorne Griffith MPH

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. 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