230: Filling the Workforce Pipeline

Dr. Laura Parajon, Deputy Cabinet Secretary of Health at the New Mexico Department of Health, discusses a new internship program that helps students understand why they might have an interest in a public health career; Eric Cote, an ASTHO Consultant, explains the importance of making plans to help people using ventilators or other medical equipment in a power outage; ASTHO examines how emergency operations centers across the country went online during the pandemic in a new brief; and another ASTHO brief details how public health teams in Oklahoma used an organizational framework to plan and implement new harm reduction programs. ASTHO Blog Article: Building Innovative Public Health Internship Programs: A Q&A with Laura Parajón ASTHO Brief: Leveraging the HHS emPOWER Program to Enhance Power Outage Planning ASTHO Brief: When the Power Fails: Helping Life-Support Equipment Users ASTHO Brief: Lessons Learned from Moving to Virtual/Hybrid EOCs in the COVID-19 Response ASTHO Brief: Boundary Spanning Leadership Model Strengthens Oklahoma Harm Reduction Programs