Episodes

ASTHO hosted a Respiratory Virus Season Deskside Briefing attended by national media outlets with Dr. Marcus Plescia, Dr. Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge, Dr. Sameer Vohra, and Dr. Manisha Juthani; Jeffrey Ekoma, ASTHO Senior Director of Government Affairs,...

Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO chief medical officer, updates us on COVID rates across the country; Robert Jennings, executive director of the National Public Health Information Coalition, tells us how AI could benefit public health communication; and an...

Angie Smith-Butterwick, Substance Use, Gambling and Epidemiology manager for the State of Michigan, tells us about a pilot program that offers small incentives to people if they stay on approved substance use treatment plans; Ashley...

Dr. Umair Shah, secretary of health for the State of Washington, outlines the Be Well Washington campaign; two leaders from ”WE in the World” share how collaboration helps create the conditions that lead to better public health; Andre Pierce,...

Tom Cotter, executive director of Healthcare Ready, explains how Healthcare Ready could assist public health leaders in a disaster; Wendy Bell, environmental health supervisor for Mecklenburg County Public Health, discusses the North Carolina Retail...

Maggie Davis, ASTHO director of State Health Policy, updates us on movements that could reshape public health authority; Emily Fine, school and youth survey manager at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, discusses the results of...

Ellen Essick, section chief for the NC Healthy Schools Section at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, explains the results of North Carolina’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey; Byron Lobsinger, environmental health emergency planner for...

Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell, Medical Director of the Louisiana Pregnancy Associated Mortality Review and the Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative, details the work to lower accidental overdose among pregnant persons; Linda Krantz, Health...

Dr. Debra Bogen, secretary of health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, discusses the importance of testing children for lead; Irving Washington, senior vice president and executive director for KFF’s Health Misinformation and Trust Initiative,...

Mark Levine, ASTHO member and commissioner of health for the State of Vermont, recaps some recent updates to a few ASTHO policy statements; Sherri Ohly, co-director of the Envision Equity CHW Training and Technical Assistance Center, says Community...

Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, distinguished professor of practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the former Baltimore City health commissioner, explains the ups and downs of overdose deaths in Baltimore across the last decade;...

Dr. Scott Harris, ASTHO president-elect and Alabama state health officer, discusses his state’s new maternal autopsy program; Calliana Thomas, director of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention in the New York State Department of Health, tells us...

Ben Gamache, policy consultant for the Office of Health Workforce Development at the Department of Health Care Access and Information, explains why California has created a new position; Dr. Lisa Villarroel, chief medical officer for Public Health at...

Dr. Chelsea Langer, program manager for the Environmental Health Program at the New Mexico Department of Health, explains the capabilities of the department’s HEAT dashboard; Amy Maxmen, public health correspondent at KFF Health News, tells us about...

Dr. Jane Harness, clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan’s Department of Psychiatry, discusses the surgeon general’s recent call for warning labels on social media; Bryan Jimenez, program supervisor for communicable disease...

Dr. Gillian SteelFisher, director of global polling at the Harvard Opinion Research Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, tells us what a new national poll says about people and their public health priorities; Jeffrey Ekoma,...

Dr. Scott Harris, ASTHO president-elect and state health officer with the Alabama Department of Public Health, tells us about an education campaign about tick-borne diseases; Sean Newhouse, staff reporter for Government Executive, explains a study...

Dr. Karen Hacker, director of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the CDC, says Medicaid and Medicare may be able to help keep community health workers on the front lines; Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, vice president and...

Christine Schell, manager for the department of environmental protection at the Office of Environmental and Public Health Analysis in New Jersey, tells us about an online portal in New Jersey that explains to people the health impacts of hot summer...

Andy Baker-White, ASTHO senior director for State Health Policy, discusses the ongoing discussion over legal tools needed to ensure public health during outbreaks and emergencies; Maggie Davis, ASTHO director of State Health Policy, says funding and...

Dr. Macarena Garcia, a senior health scientist at the Office of Rural Health at the CDC, summarizes a report focused on preventable premature deaths in rural America; Jeffrey Ekoma, ASTHO senior director for Government Affairs, updates us on the...

Dr. Audrey Juhasz, researcher at the Institute for Disability Research, Policy, and Practice, explains a project she is working on that is focused on accessible healthcare for people with disabilities; Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO chief medical officer,...

Jim Jellison, vice president of technology strategy and innovation at the National Network of Public Health Institutes, describes a new CDC-funded implementation center that will help tribal agencies with their data modernization work; Amy Lavery, an...

Dr. Kristina Kintziger, associate professor and the associate director of the Water, Climate, and Health program at the University of Nebraska, explains the long-term community impacts of a tornado; Nassira Nicola, deputy director for Access and...