Public Health Review Morning Edition
Episodes
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...
243: Predicting COVID in the Fall
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan George, the Director of Operations for the Center for Epidemic Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics with the CDC, discusses what could happen with...
242: New Data on Public Health Authority
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Maggie Davis, ASTHO's Director of State Health Policy, discusses a project to survey recent changes in laws governing public health authority; Dr. Har...
241: Monkeypox Vaccine Strategy
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO's Chief Medical Officer, discusses the plan to stretch monkeypox vaccine supplies by giving smaller doses; Arjun Srinivasan,...
240: Monkeypox Funding
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO's Chief Medical Officer, discusses the challenges posed by the monkeypox outbreak and admits the evolving strategy can be to...
239: Infectious Disease Planning
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Winfred Rawls, ASTHO's Director for Preparedness and Evaluation, explains a project that will lead to the development of a clearinghouse with informat...
238: New York Responds to Monkeypox
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. James McDonald, Medical Director in the Office of Public Health for the New York State Department of Health, says the monkeypox response in New Yo...
237: New School Year, New COVID Strategy
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Manisha Juthani, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health, discusses the state's plan to help schools deal with COVID-19 this f...
236: Optimistic About the PH Workforce
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joanne Pearsol, ASTHO's Director of Workforce Development, says the PH WINS survey shows many public health workers remain committed to their work des...
235: Public Health is Underfunded
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. J. Nadine Gracia, President and CEO of Trust for America's Health, discusses the organization's latest report addressing the impact of chronic und...
234: PH WINS Survey Released
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Brian Castrucci, de Beaumont Foundation President and CEO, discusses the concerning results of the latest PH WINS Survey of nearly 45,000 public h...
233: New CDC Workforce Survey
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Laura Parajon, the Deputy Cabinet Secretary of Health for the New Mexico Department of Health, discusses a new CDC survey of more than 26,000 peop...
232: North Carolina's Child Vaccine Strategy
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Elizabeth Tilson, North Carolina's State Health Director, discusses vaccine uptake among children and why she believes North Carolina has been abl...
231: Monkeypox Response
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Taylor, Director of Infectious Disease Outbreak Response & Recovery at ASTHO, reflects on the Monkeypox outbreak now in its third month here in ...
230: Filling the Workforce Pipeline
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Laura Parajon, Deputy Cabinet Secretary of Health at the New Mexico Department of Health, discusses a new internship program that helps students u...
229: Heat Waves Require New Thinking
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 chang...
228: Hawaii's 9-8-8 Experience
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Belinda Danielson, Access Supervisor with the State of Hawaii Department of Health, discusses the launch of the new national 9-8-8 hotline for mental ...
227: Best of ME: Hope for the PH Workforce
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This special edition revisits a popular episode of Public Health Review Morning Edition from April 20th. Dr. Bruce Perry offers encouragement for the ...
226: CDC's Multi-Billion Dollar Investment
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Davidson, Senior Deputy for Public Health with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, discusses the CDC's plan to inv...
225: Health Equity Summit Preview
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge, ASTHO's Senior Vice President of Health Equity and Diversity Initiatives, previews the goals of next Wednesday's Health...
224: Children's Mental Health
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Annie Evans, ASTHO's Director of Preparedness and Disability Integration, discusses the results of an 18-month project that placed disability and prep...
223: New PFAS Water Quality Advisories
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bruno Pigott, Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water at the Environmental Protection Agency, calls attention to new drinking water gui...
222: Better Data, More Equity
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Carlos Oronce, an Advanced Health Services Research Fellow at the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, discusses the challenges of COVID-19 b...
221: Massachusetts Opioid Strategy
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Margret Cooke, Commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, reflects on new preliminary data showing possible improvement this year...
220: You Can Help Build the Health Equity Tracker
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Dawes, Executive Director for the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine, discusses a new Health Equity tracker th...
219: New Opioid Use Disorder Infographics
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sanaa Akbarali, ASTHO's Senior Director for Maternal and Infant Health, discusses strategies to improve care for pregnant and postpartum people with o...
218: Workforce Listening
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Johnny Taylor Jr., President and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, discusses how COVID-19 has forever changed the relationship between...
217: Opioid Abuse Child Impact Task Force
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Denise Johnson, Acting Secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of Health, outlines the goals of a new task force considering the impact opioid a...
216: Best of ME: Teen Mental Health Campaign
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This special edition revisits a popular episode of Public Health Review Morning Edition from May 24th. Jill Hunsaker Ryan, Executive Director of the C...
215: Best of ME: Consulting School Nurses
08 Jul 2022
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This special edition revisits a popular episode of Public Health Review Morning Edition from May 19th. Linda Mendonca, President of the National Assoc...
214: Best of ME: Encouraging the Public Health Workforce
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This special edition revisits a popular episode of Public Health Review Morning Edition from May 31st. Dr. Karyl Rattay, Director of the Delaware Divi...
213: Best of ME: A New Way to Address Dementia
06 Jul 2022
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This special edition revisits a popular episode of Public Health Review Morning Edition from June 6th. Chelsea Kline, Associate Director of the Center...