Public Health Review Morning Edition

In a special episode of the newscast, Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO's Chief Medical Officer, explains the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices decision earlier this week. The committee voted Thursday to add pediatric COVID-19 vaccines to the CDC's immunization schedule for children. ASTHO News Release: Statement from ASTHO on COVID-19 Vaccine Recommendations

Dawn Skaggs, Emergency, Disaster, and Climate Resilience Specialist for the World Institute on Disability, promotes a new Public Health Emergency Planning Toolkit to help agencies better serve people living with disabilities during emergencies; Lillie Seals, Director of Practice Transformation at the National Community Action Partnership, says members of the Partnering for Vaccine Equity Project h...

Margaret Jaco Manecke, the Director of Practice Improvement at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, is looking for public health professionals to join the Council's next annual learning community; an ASTHO work group recommends improvements to national guidelines governing cancer cluster investigations; Geetika Nadkarni, ASTHO's Director of Chronic Infectious Disease, provides an update on m...

Jeffrey Ekoma, ASTHO's Senior Director of Government Affairs, says oversight of COVID-19 spending might increase if midterm elections lead to change in U.S. House leadership ; Heidi Westermann, ASTHO's Director of Public Health Systems and Planning, says two new training modules are available to help ASTHO members learn to visualize data and incorporate quality improvement in their planning proces...

Joanne Pearsol, ASTHO's Director of Workforce Development discusses the debut of ASTHO's new public health jobs website, publichealthcareers.org ; an ASTHO blog article assesses Tennessee's progress on Opioid Use Disorder throughout its maternal and child health population; there is a little more than a week left to sign up for ASTHO's Insight and Inspiration event on October 26th; and ASTHO outli...

Chrissie Juliano, Executive Director of the Big Cities Health Coalition, is joined by local public health directors to discuss public interest in the new COVID-19 booster; ASTHO is working with the National Community Action Partnership and five Community Action Agencies in the Partnering for Vaccine Equity project; Dr. Reem M. Ghandour, Director, Division of Epidemiology, Maternal and Child Health...

Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO's Chief Medical Officer, talks about an article he helped author in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, which discusses the work public health did in response to the pandemic; Bea Martinez, Southern Coordinator for the Office of Community Health Workers with the New Mexico Department of Health, addresses efforts to help improve the health of Hispanic com...

Caroline Brazeel, ASTHO's Senior Director for Population Health and Innovation, discusses two demonstration waivers, one which allows Oregon to provide housing assistance to some people enrolled in Medicaid, that were approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Scott Shone, ASTHO's new representative to the Secretary of Health and Human Services' Advisory Committee on Heritable Dis...

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 booster shot; ASTHO CEO Mike Fraser attends a White House Summit on Indoor Air Quality today; Priya Shah, an ASTHO Analyst for Health Improvement and Healthy Aging, discusses ways ASTHO members can integrate healthy aging principles into their policies...

Alicia Justice, ASTHO's Senior Director for Programmatic Health Equity Initiatives and Strategy, talks about the Strategies to Repair Equity and Transform Community Health project, also known as STRETCH; Danny Staley, ASTHO's Senior Vice President for Public Health Practice and Programs, explains how communication is a critical part of hurricane planning, response, and recovery; ASTHO's next Insig...

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 of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis last year; Reyna Olaguez, Executive Director of South Kern Sol, explains how her organization is helping to vaccinate people in underserved communities; two members of ASTHO's family and child health team are tal...

Brian Dittmeier, Senior Director of Public Policy for the National WIC Association, discusses ways to modernize the WIC program; Ali Hard, Senior Policy Advisor for Strategic Initiatives at the USDA, says states have more flexibility to work with infant formula manufacturers, which means more options for families enrolled in WIC programs; Allison Budzinski, Trauma and Resilience Coordinator for th...

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 Director of Chronic Disease Risk Factors, discusses ways that ASTHO remains focused on providing members with the information they need to keep communities heart healthy; Judy Persichilli, New Jersey Health Commissioner, has been honored with her name on...

ASTHO CEO Michael Fraser reflects on last week's White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health; Dr. Nirav Shah, ASTHO Immediate Past President and Director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, makes a seasonal vaccine pitch during a recent appearance on a Maine Public Radio call-in show; Jessica Frain, a school mental health consultant with the Wisconsin Department of...

Annie Evans, ASTHO's Director of Preparedness and Disability Integration, talks about two tools that examine the needs of people living with disabilities who suffer disproportionate impacts of disasters; Dr. Kristina Box, State Health Commissioner for the Indiana Department of Health, discusses the importance of businesses as pandemic messengers; since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many stat...

Dr. Sharon Hoover, Co-Director of the National Center for School Mental Health, describes how students are wrestling with mental health challenges; Stephen Massey, Director of the Health Action Alliance, discusses a playbook to guide businesses looking to get ready for the next public health emergency; and ASTHO has gathered examples of policies members have developed to promote emergency prepared...

Jeffrey Ekoma, ASTHO's Senior Director of Government Affairs, discusses a White House summit he attended in recognition of National Recovery Month; Mike Fraser, ASTHO's CEO is heading to the White House for the bipartisan Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health; Danielle Droppers, Regional Health Equity Coalition Program Manager at the Oregon Health Authority, explains several new regional hea...

Dr. Brooke Cunningham, Assistant Commissioner for the Health Equity Bureau with the Minnesota Department of Health, details a report that examined maternal deaths from 2017 to 2018; an ASTHO blog article explains how states and the federal government have taken steps to improve health outcomes for pregnant people; Maggie Davis, ASTHO's Director of State Health Policy, explains a new report to help...

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 counties; Carolyn McCoy, ASTHO's Senior Director of Federal Government Affairs, explains legislation moving to reauthorize the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program; a new ASTHO report highlights hiring practices that support states...

Dr. Steven Stack, ASTHO President-Elect, discusses the new COVID-19 booster designed to protect against the latest variants; Dr. Anne Zink, ASTHO President, explains the need to bring health care and public health closer together in an ASTHO blog article; Carolyn Wester, Director of the Division of Viral Hepatitis with the CDC, looks at a new CDC report that says not enough people diagnosed with H...

Dr. Jonathan Purtle, Associate Professor at New York University's School of Global Public Health, discusses an ASTHO report on preventing adverse childhood experiences; Lisa Peterson, ASTHO's Senior Director for Preparedness, talks about ASTHO's webinars for National Preparedness Month; Stephen Massey, Director of the Health Action Alliance, previews a pandemic preparedness summit; and ASTHO is pl...

Lance Gregory, Environmental Health Division Director with the Virginia Department of Health, discusses Septic Smart Week and the demand for the agency's Septic and Well Assistance Program; Joel Cantor, Director of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, explains a project to study population health concerns in New Jersey; and this week is also Falls Prevention Awareness Week. ASTHO Blog Artic...

Dr. Steven Stack, Commissioner of the Kentucky Department for Public Health, and new ASTHO President-Elect, discusses the role and the pandemic's impact on public health; Chris Taylor, ASTHO's Director of Infectious Disease Outbreak Response and Recovery, tells how public health leaders can help their employees recover from pandemic fatigue; and Michael Fraser, ASTHO's CEO, is in the news talking...

Dr. Jamila Perritt, President and CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health, discusses the White House Blueprint for Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis; Emma Talkington, ASTHO Environmental Health Analyst, explains why ASTHO has released a proclamation calling attention to the work agencies have done to ensure safe onsite wastewater treatment systems; and Anna Bradley, State Health Improvement...

Joanne Pearsol, ASTHO's Director of Workforce Development, discusses a new careers website helping people and organizations connect; Mike Fraser, ASTHO's Chief Executive Officer, joined an online news conference to discuss a White House proposal that would provide billions in emergency funding for the Monkeypox response; a report in the American Journal of Public Health found that only 19 of 41 st...