Public Health Review Morning Edition ASTHO

Dr. Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge, ASTHO’s Senior Vice President of Health Equity and Diversity Initiatives, outlines the organization’s updated policy statement on structural racism in public health; Dr. Brian Castrucci, President and CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation, says a book he edited with Michael Fraser, ASTHO’s CEO, codifies a new way of thinking about work in public health; J.J. Jones, Executive Director of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture, says the threat of zoonotic disease outbreaks argues for widespread adoption of the One Health approach to public health; and a new ASTHO blog article explains how to address housing and food insecurity by braiding and layering available funding sources.
ASTHO News Release: ASTHO Releases Five Health Policy Statements
ASTHO Webpage: Building Strategic Skills for Better Health
ASTHO Public Health Review Podcast: One Health – The Shared Future of People, Animals, and the Planet
ASTHO Blog Article: Braiding and Layering Funding to Address Housing and Food Insecurity
 

Jessica Fepelstein, ASTHO Analyst for State and Community Engagement, explains the health equity core concepts work that is happening as part of the STRETCH Initiative; Dr. Esther Muna, Chief Executive Officer and Territorial Health Official for the Northern Mariana Islands, discusses the ASTHO policy statement calling for Medicaid funding parity for the U.S. territories; Daphne Delgado, Program Director with the Center for Brain Health Equity at UsAgainstAlzheimer's, says the organization has resources for doing work in black and Latino communities; and an ASTHO webinar will help you learn new strategies to improve access to emergency contraception during.
ASTHO Blog Article: Centering the Community’s Voice in State-Led Health Equity Initiatives
ASTHO News Release: ASTHO Releases Five Health Policy Statements
UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Webpage: Our Data Insights
UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Webpage: Let’s Talk Alz this National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month
UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Webpage: Culturally Tailored Communications Resources
ASTHO Webinar: Provider Strategies to Improve Access to Emergency Contraception
 

Patricia Tilley, Director Division of Public Health Services with the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, discusses ASTHO’s sexual and reproductive health policy statement; Meghan Fadel, Associate Director of the Healthy Brain Initiative at the Alzheimer's Association, says the Healthy Brain Initiative Roadmap is an important tool in the work to address Alzheimer’s; Dan Keating, Washington Post Reporter, tells us about a project that studied chronic disease and life expectancy in the United States; and an ASTHO toolkit will allow you to find out how your agency is doing managing its grants process.
ASTHO News Release: ASTHO Releases Five Health Policy Statements
ASTHO Webpage: Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy Statement
Alzheimer’s Association Webpage: Healthy Brain Initiative (HBI) Road Map
Washington Post News Article: An Epidemic of Chronic Illness is Killing Us Too Soon
ASTHO Webpage: Grants Management Office Structure Optimization Toolkit
 

Dr. Marcus Plescia, ASTHO Chief Medical Officer, examines ASTHO’s new webpage with a collection of evidence-based technical packages covering key public health concerns; J.T. Lane, ASTHO Senior Vice President for Population Health and Innovation, outlines the work being facilitated by the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement or TEFCA; and Daphne Delgado, the Program Director for the Center for Brain Health Equity at UsAgainstAlzheimer's, says 2023 has been a historic and exciting year for the Alzheimer’s community.
ASTHO Webpage: Evidence-Based Public Health
ASTHO Blog Article: TEFCA – A Better User Experience for Exchanging Public Health Data
UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Webpage: Alzheimer's Disease – Get The Facts
 

J.T. Lane, ASTHO Senior Vice President for Population Health and Innovation, discusses the impacts of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement; Catherine Jones, Senior Analyst for Government Affairs, looks at new congressional deadlines to meet and several spending bills that still need approval; Janet Johnson, Tribal Liason for the New Mexico Department of Health, says designated tribal liaisons have helped New Mexico improve connections with multiple populations; and Public Health Thank You Day was on Monday.
ASTHO Blog Article: TEFCA – A Better User Experience for Exchanging Public Health Data
New Mexico Department of Health Webpage: Office of the Tribal Liaison
New Mexico Department of Health Webpage: State-Tribal Collaboration Act Agency Report
ASTHO Blog Article: ASTHO’s Fall 2023 Capitol Hill Recap
American Public Health Association Webpage: Public Health Thank You Day
 

Dr. Lauren Tanz, an Epidemiologist with the CDC, talks about the rising numbers of teen overdose deaths in the United States; Dr. Dylan George, Director of the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics at the CDC, discusses the CDC’s creation of a new national network to improve outbreak and disease modeling; and Public Health Thank You Day was yesterday.
CDC Webpage: Drug Overdose Deaths Among Persons Aged 10–19 Years — United States, July 2019–December 2021
NPR News Article: As more teens overdose on fentanyl, schools face a drug crisis unlike any other
CDC Webpage: Insight Net – National Outbreak Analytics & Disease Modeling Network
American Public Health Association Webpage: Public Health Thank You Day