Beyond Data Management Podcast

Cameron sits down with Beth Driscoll (Sales, Marketing & Client Success) on the NEHA AEC conference floor in Kansas City to talk purpose-built EH tech, how AI is cutting form-build and go-live times, proactive client success, and why the people in environmental health are the real tribe. A special on-the-road episode of Beyond Data Management, powered by HS GovTech.
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Cameron sits down in Kansas City, at NEHA AEC, with Dan Markowski of the American Mosquito Control Association to discuss resources for environmental health departments, CDC-funded best practices and data guidance, climate-driven mosquito range expansion, the critical role of year-round surveillance, and modern ultra-low volume adult mosquito control. Recorded live on the exhibit floor at NEHA AEC 2026 in Kansas City. Beyond Data Management, powered by HS GovTech.
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Cameron sits down with Claudia Riegel, Director of Mosquito & Termite Control for the City of New Orleans, to discuss her CDC Gulf South Vector project, rodent data work, program continuity since 1964, proactive media strategies, and her accidental path into vector control. Recorded live on the exhibit floor at NEHA AEC 2026 in Kansas City. Beyond Data Management, powered by HS GovTech.
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Larry Ramdin, current President of the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), returns to Beyond Data Management for a second conversation with host Cameron Garrison.

In this episode, Larry reflects on his year in the elected president role and digs into the core of environmental health practice: understanding cultural differences in food processes, treating education as the primary tool (with regulation as the last resort), and why EH professionals must constantly expand their knowledge across food, housing, pests, water, and more.
Key topics discussed:

A callback to the “Pig Principle” and why cultural competence matters for inspectors nationwide
Hidden operational risks (cardboard glue attracting cockroaches, rodents and car wiring)
Why environmental health is an educational discipline disguised as a regulatory one
Practical examples of teaching operators (pool chemicals, multi-unit bed bug treatment, rodent-proofing landscapes)
Communication skills and NEHA’s comic book on communicating environmental health
Successes and unfinished business from Larry’s presidential year (pillars document, data management, mold guidance, REHS exam prep tools, Colorado incorporation, international partnerships)
The Journal of Environmental Health going fully open-access and online
Empowering early-career practitioners and learning from the next generation
World Environmental Health Day (Sept 26) and claiming EH’s space in public health
Technology and AI as tools that free inspectors to focus on root causes and education
Preview of the NEHA Annual Educational Conference in Kansas City (including free registration for EHAC-accredited students)

Larry shares the note he would leave for future leaders: empower the next generation, share knowledge freely, and believe in the future of the profession.
Resources mentioned:

NEHA communication comic book (link in comments / description once available)
Student free registration details for the NEHA AEC in Kansas City
World Environmental Health Day – September 26

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