Jessica Baggett MPH

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Senior Advisor for Public Health Response, ASTHO

April 30, 2024

654: Emergency Preparedness Framework Preview, Website Tells PH Stories

Jessica Baggett, senior advisor for public health response at ASTHO, talks about a package of evidence-based strategies outlined in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice;  Megan Tompkins, director of data modernization for the...
April 15, 2024

643: WIC Packaging Changes; Prep Summit Lessons

Christi Mackie, ASTHO vice president of Community Health and Prevention Programs, tells us about the USDA’s first update to WIC packaging in a decade; Jessica Baggett, ASTHO senior advisor for Public Health Response, reflects on lessons learned from...
Feb. 13, 2024

600: Strategies to Reduce Overdose Deaths, New Long COVID Report

Dr. Robert Goldstein, ASTHO Member and Commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, discusses a new report that shows Massachusetts overdose deaths remain near record highs; Jessica Baggett, ASTHO Senior Advisor for Public Health...
April 13, 2022

156: STD Awareness

Jessica Baggett, ASTHO’s Director of COVID-19 Response, explains the strategies included in ASTHO’s new COVID-19 management plan; Dr. John Hellerstedt, Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, says COVID-19 has led to an...
March 17, 2022

140: COVID-19 Funding Options

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 consideration last week;...
March 11, 2022

136: Grassroots Vaccine Outreach

Dr. Anne Marie Murphy, Executive Director of Equal Hope in Chicago, explains the work her team does to reach unvaccinated populations with COVID-19 information and vaccines; Jessica Baggett, ASTHO’s COVID-19 Response Director, shares what members...
Dec. 9, 2021

81: State of Vaccines

Claire Hannan, Executive Director of the Association of Immunization Managers, says vaccines have benefited from the attention they’ve received during the pandemic; Jessica Baggett, ASTHO’s COVID-19 Response Director, says states and territories...