Joseph Kanter MD MPH

Dec. 4, 2024

803: ASTHO Legislative Prospectus Series Kicks Off

Dr. Joseph Kanter, ASTHO CEO, gives us an overview of what to expect from ASTHO’s annual Legislative Prospectus Series; ASTHO’s INSPIRE: Readiness Series can help you foster innovation in your public health systems; and learn all about PHIG by...

Guest: Joseph Kanter MD MPH

Nov. 25, 2024

798: Public Health Thank You Day

Dr. Scott Harris, ASTHO president and state health officer of the Alabama Department of Public Health and Dr. Joseph Kanter, ASTHO CEO, share their thoughts on Public Health Thank You Day; and Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American...

Guests: Scott Harris MD MPH FACP FIDSA , Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Georges Benjamin MD

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, offers straightforward...

Guests: Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Tara Kirk Sell PhD MA , Locola Hayes MBA

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 permanent 83 percent federal...

Guests: Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Heather Tomlinson , Maria Sarabia , Kate McEvoy JD

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 public health knowledge can...

Guests: Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Gordon Thane BMSc MPH PMP®

April 29, 2024

653: HPAI National Symposium, 30 Days of Public Health

A national symposium on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, moderated by ASTHO CEO Dr. Joseph Kanter and attended by many ASTHO members, discussed many aspects of the virus; Dr. Janice Phillips, assistant director at the Illinois Department of Public...

Guests: Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Janice Phillips PhD RN CENP FAAN

April 8, 2024

638: New ASTHO CEO Kanter Starts Today, Where to Talk About Emergency Preparedness

Dr. Joseph Kanter, ASTHO CEO, looks forward to a smooth transition as he begins his new job; Rebecca Adamson, preparedness section director at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, discusses the sixth day of National Public Health Week as...

Guests: Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Sameer Vohra MD JD MA FAAP , Rebecca Adamson DrPH MSN MPH APRN-C/FNC

March 6, 2024

615: Grad Considers DELPH Colleagues Family, New ASTHO CEO is “Nice, Kind, Caring”

Keon Lewis, equity and development coordinator for the Cabarrus Health Alliance, talks about his experience as a recent graduate of ASTHO’s DELPH program; Dr. Joseph Kanter is ASTHO’s new CEO and begins his role in April; Dr. Steven Stack, ASTHO...

Guests: Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Steven Stack MD , Keon Lewis MHSA

March 5, 2024

614: New ASTHO CEO Announced

Dr. Steven Stack, ASTHO president and commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health, announces Dr. Joseph Kanter, ASTHO alum, as incoming CEO; Dr. Joseph Kanter, ASTHO’s newly-announced CEO, who joins ASTHO from the Louisiana Department of...

Guests: Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Steven Stack MD

Oct. 20, 2023

528: Flexible Climate Funding, New Federal Budget Deadline

State Public Health Officials Dr. Umair Shah, Dr. Joseph Kanter, and Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, discuss the public health impacts of climate change; Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Relations, discusses hot...

Guests: Umair Shah MD MPH , Carolyn Mullen , Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Natasha Bagdasarian MD MPH

Aug. 11, 2023

480: RSV Messaging, Emergency Contraception

Hear from the experts who participated in an ASTHO online briefing on the coming RSV season; Sophia Durant, ASTHO’s Analyst of Family and Child Health, says access to emergency contraception is a health equity issue; and an ASTHO virtual session...

Guests: Anne Zink MD FACEP , Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Manisha Juthani MD , Sophia Durant MPH MSW

July 28, 2022

229: Heat Waves Require New Thinking

Dr. Evan Mallen, an ORISE Fellow with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says cities and states need to adapt plans and programs to changes in climate that impact public health; Dr. Joseph Kanter, State Health Officer at the Louisiana...

Guests: Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Amy Ladley PhD , Evan Mallen PhD

July 25, 2022

226: CDC’s Multi-Billion Dollar Investment

Nick Davidson, Senior Deputy for Public Health with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, discusses the CDC’s plan to invest almost four billion dollars in public health capacity, workforce, and data upgrades; Dr. Joseph...

Guests: Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge MD MPH , Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Nicholas Davidson MS

July 19, 2022

222: Better Data, More Equity

Dr. Carlos Oronce, an Advanced Health Services Research Fellow at the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, discusses the challenges of COVID-19 being exacerbated by a lack of good data; Dr. Joseph Kanter, State Health Officer for the Louisiana...

Guests: Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Carlos Oronce MD PhD MPH

April 6, 2022

151: Collaboration – Public Health Week

Dr. Joseph Kanter, Louisiana’s State Health Officer, explains the importance of collaboration and resilience in public health; ASTHO considers two states with children’s cabinets in a new blog article now online; and CDC Director Dr. Rochelle...

Guests: Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Rochelle Walensky MD MPH

Jan. 24, 2022

103: Ending the HIV Epidemic

Dr. Joseph Kanter, Louisiana’s State Health Officer, talks about fighting the HIV epidemic during the COVID-19 pandemic as ASTHO releases a set of 10 policy briefings focused on public health issues expected to be priorities this year; ASTHO offers...

Guests: Joseph Kanter MD MPH , John Wiesman DrPH MPH

Jan. 11, 2022

95: ProPublica’s Syphilis Investigation – Part 2

Dr. Joseph Kanter, Louisiana’s State Health Officer, explains the evolution of messaging required by the fast-moving Omicron variant during an appearance on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal morning show Monday; ProPublica journalist Caroline Chen...

Guests: Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Caroline Chen

Oct. 4, 2021

39: Territories Avoid Medicaid Cliff

Carolyn McCoy, ASTHO’s Senior Director of Federal Government Affairs, explains how an extension of Medicaid funding for U.S. Territories gives them more time to work toward a permanent policy solution; Dr. Joseph Kanter, Louisiana’s State Health...

Guests: Carolyn McCoy MPH , Joseph Kanter MD MPH

Sept. 30, 2021

37: Workforce Reforms Pitched

Dr. Joseph Kanter, Louisiana’s State Health Officer and Medical Director, calls on Congress to take steps to address urgent public health workforce needs; Dr. Umair Shah, Secretary of Health for Washington state, reminds public health leaders to...

Guests: Umair Shah MD MPH , Joseph Kanter MD MPH , Scott Becker

Sept. 28, 2021

35: Medicaid Cliff Nears

Karl Ensign, ASTHO’s Vice President for Territorial Support, discusses the potential for Congressional action to approve enhanced financial support for Medicaid services in the U.S. Territories, as a Thursday deadline nears; Dr. Joseph Kanter,...

Guests: Karl Ensign , Joseph Kanter MD MPH