Public Health Review Morning Edition

Gary Lankford, Advances in Indian Health Care Program Director at the Association of American Indian Physicians, explains vaccine messaging that appeals to American Indian and Alaskan Native populations; Dr. Laura Chanchien Parajon, Deputy Cabinet Secretary of Health at New Mexico Department of Health, discusses National Doctor's Day and her ancestral ties to primary care and public health; the AS...

Dr. Kimberlee Wyche Etheridge, ASTHO's Senior Vice President of Health Equity and Diversity Initiatives, celebrates women who've held ASTHO leadership positions over the last several decades; Jamie Pina, ASTHO's Vice President of Public Health Data Modernization and Informatics, discusses the 2023 ASTHO Public Health TechXpo and Futures Forum; and a new ASTHO video recognizes Dr. José Romero, Dire...

Dr. Daniel Edney, State Health Officer for the Mississippi State Department of Health, discusses the dangers of Xylazine, a strong tranquilizer, and how to treat patients who have ingested it; Moses Pretrick, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) Department of Health & Social Affairs (DHSA) Assistant Secretary, outlines improvements needed to increase access to care for U.S. veterans living in the...

Dr. Anne Zink, ASTHO President and Alaska Chief Medical Officer, testifies before a House appropriations subcommittee in Washington D.C. seeking sustainable and flexible public health funding; Maggie Davis, ASTHO's Director of State Health Policy, explains how health agencies can use policy as a tool to build a stronger workforce; ASTHO's PH-HERO Workforce Resource Center offers resources to help...

Cindy Long, Administrator of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service, says a new set of proposed school lunch guidelines are an important step to putting kids on a path to healthy lifestyles; Jeffrey Ekoma, ASTHO's Senior Director of Government Affairs, outlined Dr. Anne Zink's testimony to Congress yesterday in this week's "View from Washington D.C." report; today is World TB Day, which is an opportu...

Carl Route Jr., Program Director for Reaching our Brothers Everywhere, says his group is on a mission to educate, equip, and empower men to increase breastfeeding rates and decrease infant mortality rates in the African-American community; Justa Encarnacion, Health Commissioner and Chief Public Health Officer for the U.S. Virgin Islands, discusses her team's agenda for life after the pandemic; and...

Deborah Stone, Behavioral Scientist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, explains that after two consecutive years of declines, U.S. suicide rates increased in 2021, nearly returning to their 2018 peak; Hannah Wesolowski, Chief Advocacy Officer with the National Alliance on Mental Illness, outlines the unique opportunity to invest in mental health; and the White House Office of Nat...

Alyssa Boyea, ASTHO Director for Infectious Disease Preparedness, highlights resources to help public health agencies improve their COVID-19 communication and messaging approaches; Dr. Anne Zink, ASTHO President and Chief Medical Officer for the State of Alaska, discusses issues related to the end of the public health emergency on May 11th; an ASTHO blog addresses breastfeeding resources for women...

Heather Tomlinson, ASTHO Senior Analyst for Immunizations, reminds us in an ASTHO blog article that there are strategies to reduce the impact of non-medical immunization exemptions; the CDC has added COVID-19 vaccinations to its immunization schedule in its latest update; and Gaafar Uherbelau, Minister of Health for the Palau Ministry of Health and Human Services, provides the latest updates on ta...

Gregory Sunshine, Public Health Analyst with the Centers for Disease Control, explains how state and territorial emergency powers have shifted during the COVID-19 pandemic; and Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Relations, tells us what Congress wants to know in her latest "View from Washington D.C." report. ASTHO Blog Article: New Study Published in Journ...

Dr. Brian Castrucci, CEO and President of the de Beaumont Foundation, talks about data that shows public health is on track to lose 130,000 people by 2025; an ASTHO blog article discusses how colonialism, military presence, and political influence all have had an impact on disparities in the eight territories and freely associated states; and Dr. Mark Levine, Commissioner of the Vermont Department...

Dr. Scott Harris, State Health Officer for Alabama Public Health, addresses the startling statistic that there have been more deaths in Alabama than births for two straight years; Nada Hassanein, Health Inequities Reporter for USA Today, writes about the nation's congenital syphilis trend and calls attention to the lack of care for pregnant people and their newborns; ASTHO has a webinar at the end...

Dr. Brian Castrucci, President and CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation, says workforce data indicates public health agencies could lose nearly 130,000 employees by 2025; J.T. Lane, ASTHO's Senior Vice President for Population Health and Innovation, says agencies can learn about the latest technology innovations at ASTHO's Public Health TechXpo; and an ASTHO blog article discusses how the organizatio...

Alec Tyson, Associate Director of Research at Pew Research Center, explains the results of a recent poll that confirms the challenges public health agencies had communicating pandemic decisions; Emily Dore, Director of Policy and Advocacy at Klick Health, hopes attendees will leave an ASTHO webinar with ideas to help them better reach Gen Z audiences; and Devon Page, ASTHO Government Affairs Analy...

Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO Senior Vice President for Government Affairs and Public Relations, works through the numbers of President Biden's proposed budget to evaluate the impact on public health funding and programs in this week's 'View from Washington D.C.' report; and leaders from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services explain the goal behind the agency's interactive online COVID-19...

Dr. Thomas Dobbs, former State Health Officer for the Mississippi State Department of Health and now dean of the John D. Bower School of Population Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, urges agencies that fund local public health programs to eliminate the barriers that can get in the way of lifesaving work; Dr. Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge, ASTHO Senior Vice President of Health Equ...

Alec Tyson, Associate Director of Research at the PEW Research Center, previews a survey of Americans' views of public health officials and their handling of the COVID-19 pandemic; Dr. Anne Zink, ASTHO President and Chief Medical Officer for the State of Alaska, discusses meetings ASTHO members had with members of the Biden Administration during their visit to Washington D.C. this week; and ASTHO...

Dr. Jonathan Levy, Chair of the Department of Environmental Health with the Boston University School of Public Health, has new research that says white people in Massachusetts now are more likely to die from COVID than black or Hispanic people in the state; Morgan Zialcita, ASTHO Senior Analyst for Health Equity and Diversity Initiatives, discusses the agenda for ASTHO's 2023 Health Equity Summit...

Amber Williams, ASTHO Senior Vice President for Leadership & Organizational Performance, says ASTHO members have a busy schedule of meetings with Biden Administration and Congressional officials in Washington, D.C. this week; Parker Beene, ASTHO Senior Policy Analyst, says at least 10 states and Guam have introduced legislation to impose their own limits on the sale of flavored tobacco and nicotin...

Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Relations, previews the work ahead in Congress and ASTHO's public health policy agenda in the first installment of the View from Washington D.C. report; Alex Wheatley, ASTHO Assistant Director of the Island Support Team, says island officials have a packed agenda in Washington next week to engage policymakers working in t...

Alex Wheatley, ASTHO Assistant Director of the Island Support Team, says there is an urgent need to approve agreements that continue funding for health programs in several island nations; Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO Senior Vice President for Government Affairs & Public Relations, prepares to kick off a new report on the newscast called 'The View from Washington D.C.'; and Dr. Mark Levine, Commissioner o...

Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO Chief Medical Officer, outlines the role of public health in addressing the challenges of long COVID; Katie Moran McCabe, Lead Law and Policy Analyst with the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University, says more than 1,500 bills to change public health authority have been introduced in state legislatures over the last two years; and ASTHO is hiring for se...

Dr. Thomas Dobbs, Dean of the John D. Bower School of Population Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, writes about problems impacting public health, such as underfunding, bureaucracy, and inadequate administrative support, in an article for Health Affairs; Omar Khalid, ASTHO's Director of Workforce Development, says ASTHO has a new online resource hub to help agencies build resi...

Dr. Daniel Edney, State Health Officer for the Mississippi State Department of Health, has studied the data in Mississippi's latest Maternal Mortality Report and says the rates are unacceptable; Heather Tomlinson, ASTHO Senior Analyst for Immunizations, explains in a new blog article how members can defend vaccination requirements to their state lawmakers; and there is only one day left to apply t...

Dr. Sameer Vorha, Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, is taking note of the disparities laid bare by COVID-19 in a new guest column written for the Chicago Sun-Times; Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer for CVS Health, celebrates her first year on the job; and ASTHO has a blog article asking what leaders can do to help develop resilience among the...