Alex Wheatley MPA

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Senior Director, Island Support, ASTHO

March 10, 2025

859: HIMSS Global Health Conference, Important Week for Island Areas

J.T. Lane, ASTHO senior Vice President for Population Health and Innovation at ASTHO, tells us how the HIMSS Global Health Conference and Exhibition is pushing health data modernization forward; Alex Wheatley, ASTHO Senior Director of Island Support,...
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 Infrastructure Grant program for...
May 24, 2024

672: Pacific Islands Embrace PHIG Investments, New Dashboard Calculates Heat Risk

ASTHO staff, members, and alumni, discuss a recent meeting focused on the implementation of the Public Health Infrastructure Grant program for the island areas; Dr. Mark Levine, commissioner of Health for the State of Vermont, says his state’s...
Nov. 16, 2023

546: New Youth Tobacco Data, Celebrate Rural Health

Charla Sutton, senior analyst for Chronic Disease Risk Factors at ASTHO, tracks the latest National Youth Tobacco Survey’s encouraging results; Chris Salyers, director of Programs and Evaluation at the National Organization of State Offices of Rural...
Nov. 9, 2023

542: Veterans Face Health Disparities, Island Areas Examine Indirect Cost Rates

Charity Menefee, lieutenant colonel and public health officer in the Tennessee Air National Guard and the director of the Division of Public Health at the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, highlights the connections between her public...
March 3, 2023

369: Island Officials Advocate, Congressional Mood Toward PH

Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Relations, previews the work ahead in Congress and ASTHO’s public health policy agenda in the first installment of the View from Washington D.C. report; Alex Wheatley,...
March 2, 2023

368: Island Health Push, Ending the X Waiver

Alex Wheatley, ASTHO Assistant Director of the Island Support Team, says there is an urgent need to approve agreements that continue funding for health programs in several island nations; Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO Senior Vice President for Government...
Feb. 22, 2022

123: Territories Visit Capitol Hill

Alex Wheatley, a Senior Analyst on ASTHO’s Territorial Support Team, explains the work Territorial members will do tomorrow during the organization’s annual Hill Day event in Washington, D.C.; Carolyn McCoy, ASTHO’s Senior Director of Federal...