379: Changes to Emergency Powers, Hill Gives ASTHO Recess Homework
March 17, 2023
Gregory Sunshine, Public Health Analyst with the Centers for Disease Control, explains how state and territorial emergency powers have shifted during the COVID-19 pandemic; and Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO Senior Vice President of …
374: New COVID-19 Dashboard, Biden’s Proposed Budget
March 10, 2023
Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO Senior Vice President for Government Affairs and Public Relations, works through the numbers of President Biden’s proposed budget to evaluate the impact on public health funding and programs in this wee…
369: Island Officials Advocate, Congressional Mood Toward PH
March 3, 2023
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. re…
346: Federal Budget Partners, Rural Telehealth Strategies
Jan. 30, 2023
Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Relations, is keeping an eye on the budget wrangling taking place on Capitol Hill; Ashley Cram, with ASTHO, explains how ASTHO members are working …
328: Opioids, Equity, and the Medicaid Cliff
Dec. 21, 2022
Dr. Mark Levine, Vermont Department of Health's Commissioner of Health, discusses the opioid crisis in America and the policies his state has employed to save lives; Alicia Justice, ASTHO Senior Director of Programmatic Heal…
326: 2023 Federal Policy Agenda
Dec. 19, 2022
Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Relations, is getting set to work on key public health policy issues with a new Congress taking office in a few weeks; Rachel Scheckman, ASTHO Seni…
250: ASTHO Seeks More Monkeypox Funding
Aug. 26, 2022
Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO Senior Vice President for Government Affairs and Public Relations, discusses a letter CEO Mike Fraser sent to the White House this week seeking additional funding to respond to the Monkeypox outbreak; D…
140: COVID-19 Funding Options
March 17, 2022
Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO’s Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Relations, says Congress and the Administration are considering all the options to revive an emergency COVID-19 funding proposal pulled from cons…
130: ASTHO’s State of the Union Response
March 3, 2022
Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO’s Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Relations, reacts to President Biden’s comments about public health in his State of the Union address Tuesday night; Jeffrey Ekoma, ASTHO’s Senio…
97: Announcing ASTHO’s 2022 Federal Policy Agenda
Jan. 13, 2022
Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO’s Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Relations, outlines the organization’s 2022 federal policy agenda and tells members what they ought to expect from Washington this year; ASTHO CE…
85: Public Health on Capitol Hill
Dec. 15, 2021
Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO’s Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Relations, analyzes the Build Back Better Act and looks ahead to the possibility of another continuing resolution in February; Dr. Nicole Alexand…
83: Senate Vaccine Mandate Resolution
Dec. 13, 2021
Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO’s Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Relations, says it’s unlikely Congress will roll back one of President Biden’s vaccine mandates; Devon Page, a government affairs analyst at ASTH…
26: Congressional Priorities
Sept. 15, 2021
Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO’s Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Relations, outlines Congressional priorities as lawmakers return to Capitol Hill; Dr. Lisa Grohskopf, with the CDC’s Influenza Division, discusse…