Public Health Review Morning Edition

Talyah Sands, ASTHO's Director of Health Improvement, describes a new toolkit to help public health agencies assess cognitive health needs and promote healthy aging; ASTHO plans two webinars later today to explain its upcoming 2022 Profile of State and Territorial Public Health; and Equal Hope in Chicago sponsors a TikTok video contest for young people making videos about the COVID-19 vaccine. AST...

Dr. Cathy Slemp, West Virginia's former state health officer, reflects on President Biden's comments about America's opioid epidemic in his recent State of the Union address; Paul Petersen, Director of Emergency Preparedness at the Tennessee Department of Health, outlines the benefits for attendees of the upcoming 2022 Preparedness Summit in Atlanta; and the CDC Foundation continues its series of...

Dr. Anne Marie Murphy, Executive Director of Equal Hope in Chicago, explains the work her team does to reach unvaccinated populations with COVID-19 information and vaccines; Jessica Baggett, ASTHO's COVID-19 Response Director, shares what members are thinking about the next phase of the pandemic response; and ASTHO offers an infographic to help agencies promote breastfeeding as a way to improve ea...

Dr. Ngozi Ezike, Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, reflects on International Women's Day celebrated this week; Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Rachel Levine is part of a panel discussion later today to mark Women's History Month; and Brian Lentes, ASTHO's Senior Director of Public Health Infrastructure, says infrastructure is defined many ways and can include the adminis...

Dr. Anne Marie Murphy, Executive Director of Equal Hope in Chicago, discusses the work her organization is doing as part of the Community COVID Coalition project to increase vaccination rates among some young adult populations; Mike Fraser, ASTHO's CEO, says the crisis in Ukraine is a global emergency that is closer to us that we might think; and ASTHO plans two webinars next week to provide detai...

Mike Fraser, ASTHO's CEO, reflects on ASTHO's history as the organization prepares to celebrate 80 years on March 23rd; Heidi Westermann, ASTHO's Director of Public Health Systems and Planning, says ASTHO is helping Guam identify and build strong partnerships across government agencies; and Dr. Bruce Perry, a best-selling author and clinician, prepares to discuss ways to revitalize the public heal...

Geetika Nadkarni, ASTHO's Director of Infectious Diseases, outlines a new initiative aimed at reducing disparities in vaccination rates among adult racial and ethnic minority groups and rural communities; the Community COVID Coalition adds more social media resources to its portal for public health teams working to increase vaccine uptake among several unvaccinated populations; and Mei Kwong, Exec...

Mike Fraser, ASTHO's CEO, issues a statement offering early reaction to the Biden Administration's new National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan; Dr. Elisha Hall, Clinical Guidelines Lead for the CDC's Vaccine Task Force, explains the latest recommendations regarding suggested intervals for first and second doses of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for some people; and Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO's Chief Medical Of...

Carolyn Mullen, ASTHO's Senior Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Relations, reacts to President Biden's comments about public health in his State of the Union address Tuesday night; Jeffrey Ekoma, ASTHO's Senior Director of Government Affairs, says the work ASTHO members did last week on Capitol Hill was time well spent; and Heidi Westermann, ASTHO's Director of Public Health Systems...

Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO's Chief Medical Officer, says public health jurisdictions must have clear messaging when explaining the CDC's new community-level COVID-19 metrics; Elizabeth Head, Deputy Director for Injury Prevention at the Georgia Department of Public Health, explains the benefits of a collaboration with ASTHO and the Trust for America's Health; and ASTHO has a blog article about a new...

Chrissie Juliano, Executive Director of the Big Cities Health Coalition, explains the critical need to hire hundreds of epidemiologists in public health departments nationwide; Richard Hamburg, Executive Director of the Safe States Alliance, outlines the vision for a national injury and violence prevention program; Dr. Kimberlee Wyche Etheridge, ASTHO's Senior Vice President of Health Equity and D...

Dr. Esther Muna, Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation in the Northern Mariana Islands, and Dr. Carlos Mellado, Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Health, deliver key policy messages during Capitol Hill visits; ASTHO offers a new blog article focused on actions jurisdictions have taken to address systemic racism in public health; and ASTHO launches a new websit...

Molly Howell, Immunization Director at the North Dakota Department of Health, says testimonials from people impacted by COVID-19 have helped make the virus real for people with doubts about the vaccines; Chrissie Juliano, Executive Director of the Big Cities Health Coalition, says a shortage of epidemiologists has left many health departments unable to respond to a growing number of public health...

Dr. Lisa Piercey, Tennessee's Health Commissioner, says the increased availability of oral antiviral medications doesn't lessen the need for vaccines to fight COVID-19; Cortney Lovell, co-founder of Our Wellness Collective, says she hopes a new training program will inspire public health professionals to explore recovery peer services for people struggling with substance use; and ASTHO teams with...

Carolyn McCoy, ASTHO's Senior Director of Federal Government Affairs, shares how public health leaders will engage with Members of Congress today in virtual Hill Day meetings; Amber Williams, ASTHO's Senior Vice President of Leadership and Organizational Performance, explains the excitement for ASTHO's new PH-Hero program; and Dr. Kimberlee Wyche Etheridge introduces us to Onesimus, an enslaved Af...

Alex Wheatley, a Senior Analyst on ASTHO's Territorial Support Team, explains the work Territorial members will do tomorrow during the organization's annual Hill Day event in Washington, D.C.; Carolyn McCoy, ASTHO's Senior Director of Federal Government Relations, outlines provisions of the Prevent Pandemics Act being drafted in the U.S. Senate; ASTHO Government Affairs Analyst Devon Page writes a...

ASTHO announces a new resiliency program to support the strained public health workforce; Avia Mason, ASTHO's Vice President of Learning Strategy, outlines the plan for the organization's Washington Week gathering next week; and Cortney Lovell describes a self-guided online training that teaches ASTHO members about recovery peer services for people battling substance use. ASTHO News Release: ASTHO...

Elke Shaw-Tulloch, Idaho's State Health Officer, shares her state's approach to addressing mental health concerns; ASTHO's Maggie Davis authors a blog article on legislative efforts impacting mental health; Carolyn McCoy, ASTHO's Senior Director of Federal Government Affairs, helps members understand the Prevent Pandemics Act under development on Capitol Hill; and ASTHO offers an online learning m...

Margret Cooke, Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health, examines the value of public health authority when responding to a public health emergency; Alison Beam, Pennsylvania's former acting Secretary of Health, says the response forced by COVID-19 has improved services for people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities in her state; and Richard Hamburg, Executive Director of th...

Dr. Ashish Jha, Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, says the COVID-19 virus may be in a welcomed retreat; Dr. Joe Gaugler tells us why organizers of a new conference on dementia caregiving planned for June in Minneapolis want public health professionals to know more about the subject; and ASTHO launches a new website. Register: The Public Health Opportunities and Challenges of De...

Julie Scofield, Project Director for the Community COVID Coalition, a project of the CDC Foundation, reports on the results of a months-long social media campaign to convince younger adults to get the COVID-19 vaccine; and Dr. Anne Zink, ASTHO's President-Elect and Alaska's Chief Medical Officer, answers a question about vaccine uptake during a panel discussion hosted by the Washington Post and mo...

Zarnaaz Bashir, ASTHO's Deputy Chief Executive Officer, says the organization's new strategic plan was created during and influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic; Dr. Robert Bourgeois, an occupational and environmental health expert working along the U.S. Gulf Coast, explains how difficult it is to manage pandemic health protocols in a remote work environment, like an off-shore drilling rig; and we lo...

Dr. David Adinaro, New Jersey's Deputy Commissioner for Public Health, evaluates the state of the nation's public health data and information infrastructure; Dr. Joseph Gaugler, Director of the BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving at the University of Minnesota, promotes a new conference on dementia for public health professionals; and Alison Beam, Pennsylvania's former A...

Alan Roberson, Executive Director of the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators, explains the growing interest in the risks of PFAS chemicals and the challenges some jurisdictions encounter when they want to do something about them; Phil Rooney with the Douglas County Health Department in Omaha, Nebraska, says it's vital to keep a close eye on social media misinformation and disinforma...

Dr. Josh Sharfstein, a former public health official in Maryland and principal deputy commissioner at the FDA from 2009 until 2011, says continued public confusion over testing, booster doses, and medications could be improved if two federal agencies thrown into the spotlight by the COVID-19 pandemic could find a way to work more closely together; Safe States Alliance Executive Director Richard Ha...