Beyond Data Management Podcast

Special Friday drop and the first full check flight from the new permanent studio. Cameron sits down with Adam Smith of HS GovTech for a look at the show heading into 2027, the rebuilt HSGovTech site, and why environmental health is set up to lead the next wave of regulatory tech. They open on three studios in two years, the road sets from NEHA Phoenix and Kansas City, and the elevator moment in D...

Can artificial intelligence replace million-dollar restaurant audit programs—and make food safer at the same time? Recorded at the 2026 WAFDO, CEHA and Rocky Mountain Food Safety Conference Mega Conference in Denver, Cameron Garrison sits down with PathSpot co-founder and CEO Christine Schindler and Chopt Creative Salad Company co-founder Colin McCabe. Colin shares how he and Tony Shure grew Chopt...

Description Dr. Ben Ryan joins Cameron at GEHA 2026 on Lake Lanier, about a half hour outside Atlanta. Ryan is a professor at the Frist College of Medicine at Belmont University in Nashville, where he is putting environmental health into a brand-new medical school. He previously helped stand up a master’s of public health and environmental health program at Baylor, and he is in his first year as N...

Chase Boddicker never planned to be a health inspector. He trimmed trees and sprayed pesticides for Grand Junction Parks and Rec. His wife Kyla saw the Mesa County posting and said try it. Three years later he’s on the western slope talking food, air, and why the job is almost never the hammer people think it is. Recorded live at the CEHA + WAFDO Mega Conference in Lakewood, Colorado. In this epis...

Danielle Hurst, MPH, is Cook County’s only environmentalist — 87 food services, septic, land use, billing, the whole door. She also emceed every session at GEHA 2026. Recorded as the conference wrapped at Lake Lanier. She spent 10 years as an X-ray tech, started an undergrad for PA school, and applied for this job when epi didn’t have an opening. She stayed because she does not like sitting in an...

Joseph Addison (Fayette County, Georgia) has placed in the NEHA photo contest three years running. Recorded live at GEHA 2026, he walks Cameron through 12 photos from the field — the funny ones, the filthy ones, and the one he did not put on the report. In this episode: -“Biscuitus” and other kitchen personality that isn’t in the code -A septic repair that got dumped into the neighbor’s yard (2nd...

Matt Geller is back — National Food Truck Association, Best Food Trucks, Revolution Carts — recorded live at GEHA 2026 at Lake Lanier. This one is not a “how to start a food truck” episode. It’s a field report from the biggest mobile-vending mess in the country. LA County paid for 125 permitted carts to get unpermitted vendors into the formal economy. Most of them are still sitting in a warehouse....

Chef John does food safety and regulatory compliance for Kroger’s Atlanta division — 182 stores across Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina. Recorded live at GEHA 2026 on Lake Lanier. He started at IBM as a statistician, took a buyout, and IBM paid for Johnson & Wales. Now he’s the chef who still cooks for TV — and the guy who trains store leaders as Certified Food Protection Managers. In this...

Austin Haney is EHS-5, district standard trainer, data specialist — and president of the Georgia Environmental Health Association. Recorded live at GEHA 2026 on Lake Lanier. He did not take the lunch-table path. Bachelor’s and master’s at Valdosta State. Two years of a PhD at Oregon State. One year at UF’s Whitney Marine Lab. Then 2020 hit, and he asked what he actually wanted: a job that let him...

In this episode of Beyond Data Management, recorded live at GEHA 2026 on Lake Lanier, host Cameron Garrison sits down with Galen Baxter, Director of Environmental Health for the Georgia Department of Public Health. Galen traces an unusual path into the field: high-school military enlistment as a linguist (Arabic instead of the Russian he wanted), a short stint teaching, then health education in Ti...

In this episode of Beyond Data Management, Cameron Garrison shares his presentation from the AFDO AI in Food Safety Workshop in Columbus, OH titled: “Closing the Blind Spot.” For years, restaurant chains and food brands have struggled to get timely, consistent access to local health inspection results. With more than 3,000 environmental health agencies using different forms, scoring systems, and f...

Cameron sits down with Beth Driscoll (Sales, Marketing & Client Success) on the NEHA AEC conference floor in Kansas City to talk purpose-built EH tech, how AI is cutting form-build and go-live times, proactive client success, and why the people in environmental health are the real tribe. A special on-the-road episode of Beyond Data Management, powered by HS GovTech. Send us Fan Mail Please rem...

Cameron sits down with Claudia Riegel, Director of Mosquito & Termite Control for the City of New Orleans, to discuss her CDC Gulf South Vector project, rodent data work, program continuity since 1964, proactive media strategies, and her accidental path into vector control. Recorded live on the exhibit floor at NEHA AEC 2026 in Kansas City. Beyond Data Management, powered by HS GovTech. Send u...

Cameron sits down in Kansas City, at NEHA AEC, with Dan Markowski of the American Mosquito Control Association to discuss resources for environmental health departments, CDC-funded best practices and data guidance, climate-driven mosquito range expansion, the critical role of year-round surveillance, and modern ultra-low volume adult mosquito control. Recorded live on the exhibit floor at NEHA AEC...

Larry Ramdin, current President of the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), returns to Beyond Data Management for a second conversation with host Cameron Garrison. In this episode, Larry reflects on his year in the elected president role and digs into the core of environmental health practice: understanding cultural differences in food processes, treating education as the primary tool...

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What if a device mounted next to a handwashing sink could instantly scan for E. coli, Salmonella, Norovirus, Listeria and other invisible threats — then coach teams in real time and feed the data straight to management? In this episode of Beyond Data Management (powered by HS GovTech), host Cameron Garrison sits down with Christine Schindler, Founder & CEO of Path Spot, for a deep dive into on...

Environmental health is entering a new era—and the old regulatory playbook may no longer be enough. In this episode of the Beyond Data Management Podcast, Cameron Garrison welcomes back Dr. David Dyjack, CEO of the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), for a wide-ranging conversation about the future of environmental and public health. Dr. Dyjack explains why technical expertise alone...

🚀 Special Episode! We're giving you an exclusive first look at the brand new **HS GovTech Conference Navigator App** built specifically for the NEHA 2026 AEC in Kansas City. If you've ever felt overwhelmed trying to navigate dozens of sessions, conflicting schedules, credit hours, and everything Kansas City has to offer — this app is for you. In this demo, host Cameron Garrison and Adam...

In this special Fourth of July week episode of the Beyond Data Management Podcast, Cameron Garrison is joined by HS GovTech’s own Adam Smith for a fun, behind-the-scenes look at spring environmental health conference season. From Idaho to California, Montana, West Virginia, North Dakota, and AFDO in Columbus, this episode takes EH Nation on the road for a recap of the conferences, conversations, t...

🎙️ Beyond Data Management Podcast — Powered by HS GovTech What if your food safety and quality systems could answer any question in real time, in any language, tailored to your role — while predicting problems before they happen? In this powerful episode, Cameron Garrison interviews Dr. Vera Dickinson, Founder & CEO of Nova Q. Vera brings decades of hands-on expertise from the front lines of f...

In our June 1st episode AFDO Executive Director Steve Mandernach gave us a teaser that a new AI for food safety and health regulators was going to be debuted at the upcoming AFDO conference in Columbus Ohio. The unveiling has happened, and Wiley is smart.  Jason Brill from AFDO joins us to give us an exclusive deep dive into this powerful new tool. You can ask Wiley yourself at https://afdo.org/as...

In this episode of Beyond Data Management, Cameron Garrison welcomes back Steve Mandernach, Executive Director of AFDO, for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of food safety regulation, inspections, training, and technology. Steve previews the upcoming AFDO conference in Columbus, including major sessions on AI in food safety, the 15th anniversary of the Food Safety Modernization Act, food...

In this episode of Beyond Data Management, powered by HS GovTech, Cameron Garrison talks with Dr. Aaron Ashbrook, Assistant Professor of Urban & Peri-Urban Entomology at the LSU AgCenter. Dr. Ashbrook breaks down the science (and horror) of bed bugs: their resurgence tied to spring travel in the Southern U.S., how much blood they drink, why they’re so hard to kill, and the bizarre reality of t...

In this episode of Beyond Data Management, powered by HS GovTech, Cameron Garrison sits down with Alicia Love, Bureau Chief of the Meat, Milk & Egg Inspection Bureau at the Montana Department of Livestock. Alicia shares her unexpected journey from wildlife management dreams → vector control → becoming a food safety leader in one of the most unique state agencies in the country. She also delive...