Public Health Review Morning Edition

343: Vaccination Disparities, Retail Food Mentorships

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Shannon Stokley, an Epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, talks about another drop in childhood vaccination rates; T...

342: Racial Healing, Tech Helps Messaging

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Caroline Brunton, Program Officer for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, talks about the National Day of Racial Healing first celebrated by the Foundation s...

341: Investing in PH, Protecting Children

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Nancy Messonnier, Dean of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, says there's still a need for sustained investment in public health thr...

340: Climate + Health Equity, ARPA Benefits

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Umair Shah, Secretary of Health for the Washington State Department of Health, is establishing connections between climate change, environmental j...

339: Messonnier's COVID Reflections, Equity Tops Pandemic Lessons

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Nancy Messonnier, Dean of the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic with her uni...

338: Medicaid Cliff, Global View for Public Health

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Carolyn McCoy, ASTHO Senior Director of Federal Government Affairs, shares the good news that Congress has addressed Medicaid funding concerns that ha...

337: Dr. Nirav Shah's Big News, National Day of Racial Healing

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Nirav Shah, ASTHO Immediate Past President, will leave his job as director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention to take the numb...

336: MLK in Public Health, Lactation Help for Incarcerated People

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Kimberlee Wyche Etheridge, ASTHO's Senior Vice President of Health Equity and Diversity Initiatives, reflects on the importance of Dr. King's mess...

335: Conflict Training, Diverse Executives Search

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Montrece McNeill Ransom, Director of the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training at the National Network of Public Health Institutes, ...

334: Flu Messaging, Pandemic Partner

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Umair Shah, Washington Secretary of Health, says Congress needs to be continually updated about the winter flu season; Elke Shaw-Tulloch, Idaho St...

333: COVID Booster Strategy, Medicaid Policies

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO Chief Medical Officer, says public health agencies are increasing the focus on COVID-19 boosters for those living in nursing...

332: Public Health Polling, Flu Vaccine Strategies

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Meredith Li-Vollmer, Risk Communication Manager for the Seattle and King County Public Health Department, says polling data helped agencies better...

331: Vaccine Hesitancy Study, Diabetes in Palau

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Kimberly Martin, a President's Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California San Francisco, says black people likely avoid COVID-19 vaccine...

330: Reproductive Health, Climate Challenges

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Denise Johnson, Acting Secretary of Health for the Pennsylvania Department of Health, says effective reproductive health policies strengthen commu...

329: Synthetic Nicotine, Ending HIV Stigma

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rachael Banks, Public Health Director for the Oregon Health Authority, says policymakers need to address the problem of synthetic nicotine; Dr. Scott ...

328: Opioids, Equity, and the Medicaid Cliff

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Mark Levine, Vermont Department of Health's Commissioner of Health, discusses the opioid crisis in America and the policies his state has employed...

327: COVID Impacts Top Issues in 2023

20 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Fraser, ASTHO CEO, discusses the purpose of the organization's annual legislative series which identifies the top 10 public health issues to watc...

326: 2023 Federal Policy Agenda

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Relations, is getting set to work on key public health policy issues with...

325: America's Alarming Preterm Birth Rate

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Kathryn Mishkin, Head of the Office of Data Science and Mission Strategy with the March of Dimes, discusses the rise in preterm birth in the Unite...

324: Vaccine Anniversary

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brent Ewig, ASTHO Chief Policy and Government Relations Officer, marks the second anniversary of COVID-19 vaccines this week; Jamie Pina, ASTHO Vice P...

323: Mental Health Outlook

14 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lindsey Myers, ASTHO Vice President for Social and Behavioral Health, discusses the growing mental health crisis, and options available to public heal...

322: Sorting Anti-Vaccine Legislation

13 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brent Ewig, Chief Policy and Government Relations Officer for the Association of Immunization Managers, is tracking legislative attempts to weaken loc...

321: Celebrating ASTHO's 80th Birthday

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Anne Zink, ASTHO President and Chief Medical Officer for the State of Alaska, discusses the significance of ASTHO's 80th anniversary; Dr. Nirav Sh...

320: Hurricane Health Hazards

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sidnie Christian, ASTHO Analyst for Infectious Diseases, calls attention to the public health impacts of hurricanes; Mike Fraser, ASTHO CEO, discusses...

319: Mpox Readiness

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Manisha Juthani, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health, explains how the agency's Mpox response benefitted from its COVID-19...

318: STI Strategies in Rural Wyoming

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Leslie Fowler, Prevention Program Manager with the Wyoming Department of Health, discusses the challenges of reaching people with STI information and ...

317: Removing Barriers to HIV Treatment

06 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kim Martin, ASTHO's Director of Immunization, reminds us that vaccines this winter are more important than ever as we recognize National Influenza Vac...

316: Mental Health Needs of School-Age Girls

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Amber Williams, ASTHO's Senior Vice President for Leadership and Organizational Performance, talks about the organization's annual winter retreat happ...

315: Historic PH Investment News

02 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Amber Williams, ASTHO Senior Vice President for Leadership & Organizational Performance, discusses the CDC's announcement that ASTHO will receive sign...

314: Ending the AIDS Epidemic

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, CDC Director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, discusses the ongoing HIV epidemic on World AIDS Day; Mike Fraser, ASTHO ...

313: Tennessee's Health Resilience Grants

30 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Beth Kallmyer, Vice President of Care and Support at the Alzheimer's Association, discusses National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month; Dr. Morgan M...

312: Tracking Tobacco Policy

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ann Abraham, ASTHO Chronic Disease Prevention Analyst, discusses the need for tobacco control staff members to stay informed of the latest policies in...

311: More Flexible Opioid Guidelines

28 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Christopher Jones, Acting Director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, discusses new guidelines that are meant to give provi...

310: Teaching Vaccine Advocates

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Becky Christensen, Founder and Campaign Director for Science and Families Engaging Communities Coalition and Action Fund, discusses protecting public ...

309: South Dakota's Tribal Partnerships

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Georges Benjamin, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association, discusses how the organization's 150th anniversary was celebrated ...

308: Thankful for People in Public Health

21 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Anne Zink, ASTHO President and Chief Medical Officer of the Alaska Department of Health, shares some encouraging words to celebrate Public Health ...

307: New Congress Means More Oversight

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Susan Best, Program Manager for the Division of Food and Lead Risk Assessment with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, ...

306: A Strategy to Ban Menthol

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO Chief Medical Officer, discusses the important role states and local jurisdictions have in removing flavored tobacco product...

305: Prepping for Ebola

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. David Lakey, former Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, discusses the Texas response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak as a wa...

304: COVID-19's Lessons on Homelessness

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Emily Mosites, Senior Advisor on Special Populations for the CDC, discusses lessons learned from work done during the pandemic to help people expe...

303: A Win for Public Health

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Judy Monroe, CDC Foundation President and CEO, announces ASTHO as one of the winners of the 2022 Fries Prize for Improving Health; Ericka McGowan,...

302: Veterans Working in Public Health

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In a special edition of the newscast, we celebrate Veterans Day with thoughts from two veterans working in public health: Keith Reed, Oklahoma Commiss...

301: Health in All Policies Primer

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kerry Wyss, ASTHO's Director of Environmental Health, outlines a new report about the value of a Health in All Policies approach to public health; Ali...

300: New Tool for Suicide, Overdose, ACEs

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Caitlin Langhorne Griffith, ASTHO's Director of Behavioral Health, unveils a new public health tool known as SPACECAT, or Suicide, Overdose and Advers...

299: Pediatric Respiratory Cases Cause Concern

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Anne Zink, ASTHO President, releases a statement addressing the response to a spike in respiratory infections; Dr. Jose Romero, Director of the Na...

298: Washington's Opioid Agreement

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Umair Shah, Secretary of Health for the State of Washington, discusses a settlement with three companies the state says played a key role in drivi...

297: Virus Triple Threat

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge, ASTHO's Senior Vice President of Health Equity and Diversity Initiatives, discusses concerns with RSV infections and th...

296: Data Model for Violence Prevention

02 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Steven Stack, ASTHO President-Elect and Kentucky Public Health Commissioner, discusses Kentucky's new online system to report foodborne illnesses;...

295: Island Policy Working Group

01 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Karl Ensign, ASTHO's Vice President for Territorial Support, discusses the idea behind the Island Areas Workgroup, which is celebrating one year of co...

294: Public Health on the Ballot

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jeanne Ayers, Executive Director of Healthy Democracy Healthy People and an ASTHO alum, discusses the impact of voting on public health; Grace Lee, Se...

293: Delaware Youth Go Positive in New Campaign

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Katie Capelli, an Epidemiologist in the Office of Health Crisis Response at the Delaware Division of Public Health, discusses a new public service cam...

292: Massachusetts Wins Genomics Center Work

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Margret Cooke, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, says the CDC has selected her state to develop one of five Pathogen Geno...

291: Vermont's New "Facing Suicide" Campaign

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Mark Levine, Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Health, discusses the state's new Facing Suicide VT campaign, which focuses on encouraging ...

290: Healthy Aging Policy Trends

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Claire Pendergrast, ASTHO Senior Analyst for Health Improvement and Healthy Aging, discusses a survey of healthy aging policy actions enacted across t...

289: Monkeypox Communication Strategies

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Carlton Thomas, a gastroenterologist in San Diego, discusses a recent CDC report on monkeypox which he says is an argument in favor of communicati...

288: ACIP Immunization Decisions Explained

21 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In a special episode of the newscast, Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO's Chief Medical Officer, explains the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practic...

287: New Disability Preparedness Toolkit

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dawn Skaggs, Emergency, Disaster, and Climate Resilience Specialist for the World Institute on Disability, promotes a new Public Health Emergency Plan...

286: Creative Vaccine Strategies

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Margaret Jaco Manecke, the Director of Practice Improvement at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, is looking for public health professionals t...

285: COVID-19 Spending Oversight

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jeffrey Ekoma, ASTHO's Senior Director of Government Affairs, says oversight of COVID-19 spending might increase if midterm elections lead to change i...

284: Public Health Careers Website Launches

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joanne Pearsol, ASTHO's Director of Workforce Development discusses the debut of ASTHO's new public health jobs website, publichealthcareers.org; an ...

283: New National Children's Health Survey

14 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chrissie Juliano, Executive Director of the Big Cities Health Coalition, is joined by local public health directors to discuss public interest in the ...

282: Pandemic Achievements

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO's Chief Medical Officer, talks about an article he helped author in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, wh...

281: Medicaid Approves Housing Waiver

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Caroline Brazeel, ASTHO's Senior Director for Population Health and Innovation, discusses two demonstration waivers, one which allows Oregon to provid...

280: Promoting the new COVID-19 Booster

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Sameer Vohra, Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, explains what it will take to convince more people to get the new COVID-19 boo...

279: Stretching to Improve Equity

07 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alicia Justice, ASTHO's Senior Director for Programmatic Health Equity Initiatives and Strategy, talks about the Strategies to Repair Equity and Trans...

278: How to Push Back on STDs

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Leandro Mena, Director of the Division of STD Prevention at the CDC, discusses the latest preliminary data that counts 2.5 million reported cases ...

277: Modernize WIC

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Dittmeier, Senior Director of Public Policy for the National WIC Association, discusses ways to modernize the WIC program; Ali Hard, Senior Poli...

276: Learning from NASA

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Judy Monroe, President and CEO of the CDC Foundation, says public health could learn a lot from America's space agency; Joshua Berry, ASTHO's Dire...

275: PH Can Help End Hunger

03 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

ASTHO CEO Michael Fraser reflects on last week's White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health; Dr. Nirav Shah, ASTHO Immediate Past Preside...

274: Disaster Planning Tools

30 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Annie Evans, ASTHO's Director of Preparedness and Disability Integration, talks about two tools that examine the needs of people living with disabilit...

273: Classroom Mental Health

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Sharon Hoover, Co-Director of the National Center for School Mental Health, describes how students are wrestling with mental health challenges; St...

272: Oregon's Regional Health Equity Coalitions

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jeffrey Ekoma, ASTHO's Senior Director of Government Affairs, discusses a White House summit he attended in recognition of National Recovery Month; Mi...

271: Minnesota Eyes Maternal Disparities

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Brooke Cunningham, Assistant Commissioner for the Health Equity Bureau with the Minnesota Department of Health, details a report that examined mat...

270: Tracking Polio in New York

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Jim McDonald, Medical Director for the New York State Department of Health, discusses the discovery of polio in wastewater in at least two NY coun...

269: Urging COVID Booster Uptake

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Steven Stack, ASTHO President-Elect, discusses the new COVID-19 booster designed to protect against the latest variants; Dr. Anne Zink, ASTHO Pres...

268: ACEs Legislative Scan

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Jonathan Purtle, Associate Professor at New York University's School of Global Public Health, discusses an ASTHO report on preventing adverse chil...

267: Managing Septic Grants

21 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lance Gregory, Environmental Health Division Director with the Virginia Department of Health, discusses Septic Smart Week and the demand for the agenc...

266: ASTHO's New President-Elect

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Steven Stack, Commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health, and new ASTHO President-Elect, discusses the role and the pandemic's impa...

265: Maternal Health Crisis Blueprint

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Jamila Perritt, President and CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health, discusses the White House Blueprint for Addressing the Maternal Health Cr...

264: New PH Job Website

16 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joanne Pearsol, ASTHO's Director of Workforce Development, discusses a new careers website helping people and organizations connect; Mike Fraser, ASTH...

263: Youth Worried About Climate Change

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rachael Banks, Public Health Director for the Oregon Health Authority Division of Public Health, discusses the results of a new study exploring the co...

262: Meet ASTHO's New President

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Anne Zink, ASTHO's New Board President and Alaska's Chief Medical Officer, looks at the year ahead and the work she hopes to continue; Mike Fraser...

261: ASTHO's Outgoing President

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Nirav Shah, ASTHO's Outgoing Board President, reflects on his time leading the organization during the COVID-19 pandemic; ASTHO has a new webinar ...

260: ASTHO's Impact on Public Health

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

ASTHO CEO Mike Fraser previews his State of ASTHO address to members meeting this week in Atlanta; Mark Miller, Vice President of Communications for t...

259: Training for Diverse Public Health Pros

09 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jill Miller, Interim Deputy Director, Family Health Services, Alameda County Public Health Department, shares how she learned new leadership skills as...

258: Public Health AmeriCorps Explained

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

AJ Pearlman, Director of Public Health AmeriCorps, shares the organization's plan to get more people into public health positions across the nation; A...

257: Life Expectancy Data Sounds Alarm

07 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Anne Zink, ASTHO President-Elect and Alaska's Chief Medical Officer, says new CDC life expectancy data sounds an alarm for public health and the n...

256: Helping Youth in Crisis

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Heather Sebero, ASTHO Senior Analyst for Social and Behavioral Health, discusses the alarming mental health crisis impacting young people across the c...

255: New Naloxone Strategy

02 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta, Innovation Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, discusses a new wa...

254: Addressing Monkeypox Inequities

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Susan Kansagra, North Carolina State Health Officer and Assistant Secretary for Public Health, discusses disparities in the Monkeypox response; Me...

253: Breastfeeding Policies

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Deborah Backman, ASTHO's Senior Analyst for Maternal and Infant Health, calls attention to policies in place to protect breastfeeding during National ...

252: Offering Flu and COVID Vaccines Together

30 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Gillian SteelFisher, Director of Global Polling for the Harvard Opinion Research Program, reveals what polling tells us about public interest in C...

251: Software Tool Tackles Online Misinformation

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In a special edition of the newscast, Connie Moon Sehat, a Researcher at Large with Hacks and Hackers, discusses a software tool that will help organi...

250: ASTHO Seeks More Monkeypox Funding

26 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO Senior Vice President for Government Affairs and Public Relations, discusses a letter CEO Mike Fraser sent to the White House th...

249: New Flu Vaccine Polling

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Gillian SteelFisher, Director of Global Polling for the Harvard Opinion Research Program, reflects on her latest survey gauging public reaction to...

248: New COVID-19 Guidelines

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Williams, Incident Manager for the CDC's COVID-19 Response, discusses the latest changes to public pandemic guidance; Lillian Colasurdo, ASTHO's D...

247: CDC Reforms

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Nirav Shah, ASTHO's President and Director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, commends CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky for...

246: Back to School Concerns

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dylan George, Director of Operations for the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics with the CDC, discusses trying to evaluate the factors that...

245: The Secrets to Effective Communication

19 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In a special edition of the newscast, Glen Nowak, the former Media Relations Chief for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses a bac...

244: How the Pandemic Changed PH Comms

18 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In a special edition of the newscast, Dr. Khalilah LeGrand, the Interim Chief of Staff for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, discu...