Season 3

July 3, 2024

698: Best of PHRME: Website Accessibility Rule, Tick-Borne Disease Awareness

This special episode of Public Health Review Morning Edition revisits a popular episode from June 3rd, 2024. Chris Teale, a journalist with Route Fifty, discusses a federal rule that requires websites to adopt standards outl…
July 2, 2024

697: Best of PHRME: Pacific Islands Embrace PHIG Investments, New Dashboard Calculates Heat Risk

This special episode of Public Health Review Morning Edition revisits a popular episode from May 24th, 2024. ASTHO staff, members, and alumni, discuss a recent meeting focused on the implementation of the Public Health Infra…
July 1, 2024

696: Best of PHRME: Avian Flu Symposium Takeaways, Adolescent Immunization Toolkit

This special episode of Public Health Review Morning Edition revisits a popular episode from May 6th, 2024. Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO chief medical officer, elaborates on a blog he authored on takeaways from the recent Avian…
June 28, 2024

695: LGBTQ+ Inclusivity, Appropriation Season in Full Swing

Dr. Jorge Petit, founder and CEO of Quality Healthcare Solutions, discusses his article in Forbes where he advocates for LGBTQ+ inclusivity; Jeffrey Ekoma, ASTHO senior director for Government Affairs, helps us navigate appr…
June 27, 2024

694: New Data Sources Inform Tobacco Prevention Work, Caring for PH Workers During Disasters

Eli Kern, senior epidemiologist at Public Health - Seattle & King County, says public health teams in Washington are finding new ways to identify tobacco prevention challenges and opportunities; Tiffany Meche, Director of th…
June 26, 2024

693: Lit Scan Examines Workforce Diversity, Vaccination Barriers Impact People with Disabilities

Dr. Elena Rios, president of the National Hispanic Health Foundation, discusses a scan of literature focused on diversity to encourage people to consider work in public health; Dr. Nassira Nicola, deputy director for Access …
June 25, 2024

692: Training New Tobacco Prevention Hires, Challenges Facing Work on Social Determinants

Katie Steffens, deputy program manager for the State of Alaska Tobacco Prevention and Control Program, is working to give potential employees the skills they need to thrive; Suja Shunmugavelu, ASTHO senior director of Engage…
June 24, 2024

691: Building Trust Takes Time, Science Supports Health Equity

Dr. Tara Kirk Sell, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health…
June 21, 2024

690: Medicaid Letter Supports Territories, FDA Food Code Resources

ASTHO CEO Dr. Joseph Kanter and Executive Director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, Kate McEvoy, have sent a letter to Congress to lift the Medicaid funding cap on all U.S. territories and approve a permane…
June 20, 2024

689: Territorial Medicaid Funding, Closing PH Knowledge Gaps

Dr. Joseph Kanter, ASTHO CEO, discusses a letter to Congress that asks lawmakers to lift the Medicaid funding cap on all U.S. territories; Gordon Thane, CEO and principal consultant for Public Health Insight says gaps in pub…
June 18, 2024

688: Telehealth Needs Assessment, Executive Training in Action

Suleima Salgado, an ASTHO Telehealth Consultant, shares details of a new needs assessment focused on telehealth; Dr. Fredrick Echols, CEO and Founder of Population Health and Social Justice Consulting LLC and a DELPH Graduat…
June 17, 2024

687: Island Area Agencies Make Time to Plan, PH Leaders Wanted

Megan Drake-Pereyra, ASTHO advisor for Public Health Infrastructure, says island area agencies are looking to update plans and processes following the pandemic; Arthur U. San Agustin, special assistant to the Office of the G…
June 14, 2024

686: Community Tobacco Control Strategies, Health Equity Science

Ashley Hebert, senior program manager for Community and Government Relations with The Center for Black Health & Equity, says despite challenges organizations must continue their work to protect communities of color from toba…
June 13, 2024

685: Washington State University Disability Data, FSM Improving Healthcare Access

Dr. Liz Wood, scholarly assistant professor at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University, discusses her grant-winning research on disability data; Julia Von Alexander, ASTHO senior analyst for Isl…
June 12, 2024

684: Epidemiology Competencies Toolkit, Advancing Vaccine Equity

Sarah Auer, program analyst for the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, tells us about the Applied Epidemiology Competencies toolkit; Lillie Seels, director of Practice Transformation at the National Community …
June 11, 2024

683: RSV Season Preps Underway, Tips to Build PH Trust

Dr. Michelle Fiscus, chief medical officer at the Association of Immunization Managers, discusses numbers released in March that show the RSV immunization for infants is 90 percent effective; Dr. Tom Frieden, president and c…
June 10, 2024

682: PH Trust in Three Steps, Mobile Clinics Roll in SD

Dr. Tom Frieden, president and chief executive officer of Resolve to Save Lives, shares three steps he says are needed to rebuild trust in public health; Melissa Magstadt, secretary of Health for the South Dakota Department …
June 7, 2024

681: Utah State Disability Research, Maternal Implicit Bias Training

Dr. Audrey Juhasz, researcher at the Institute for Disability Research Policy and Practice at Utah State University, discusses findings from their disability data analysis research; Nada Hassanein, health inequities reporter…
June 6, 2024

680: SC Overdose Dashboard, Disability Data Analysis Grants

Dr. Edward Simmer, director of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, talks about a dashboard for state-wide overdose data; Chevelle Glymph, senior director of Public Health at the Association for…
June 5, 2024

679: Community Health Workers Need Sustained Funding, Pediatricians Feel Ill-Equipped to Help Teens Struggling with Addiction

Denise Octavia Smith, executive director of the National Association of Community Health Workers, discusses the need for sustained funding for Community Health Workers; and Dr. Scott Hadland, chief of Adolescent Medicine at …
June 4, 2024

678: HEALing Communities Study, Heat Impacts on EMS

Monika Salvage, project director for Cayuga County in New York, explains their participation in the HEALing Communities Study; Dr. Hao Yu, associate professor at Harvard Medical School, conducted a national study on the effe…
June 3, 2024

677: Website Accessibility Rule, Tick-Borne Disease Awareness

Chris Teale, a journalist with Route Fifty, discusses a federal rule that requires websites to adopt standards outlined in the Americans with Disabilities Act; Courtney Youngbar, ASTHO director of Environmental Health, tells…
May 31, 2024

676: How Tobacco Cultivates Young Customers, Opioid Crisis Solutions

Ellen Cartmell, Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program manager at the Kentucky Department for Public Health, updates us on her state’s tobacco situation for World No Tobacco Day; an ASTHO blog article outlines how your jur…
May 30, 2024

675: Latest Tobacco Concerns, Overdose Data Brings Mixed Results

John Bowman, executive vice president for U.S. Tobacco Programs at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, sounds the alarm about the tobacco industry’s relentless drive to encourage young people to use their products; Kayley Hu…