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 ====== Kristin Klein ====== ====== Kristin Klein ======
  
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 +Dr. **Kristin Klein** is a Canadian [[public health]] and [[preventive medicine]] specialist based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is notable during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] due to her position with the [[National Advisory Committee on Immunization]] (NACI).((//National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI): Membership and representation.// (2021, February 3). Government of Canada; Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20210203234834/https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/immunization/national-advisory-committee-on-immunization-naci/naci-membership-representation.html)) 
 +===== Education ===== 
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 +Klein holds a [[Bachelor of Science]] from the [[University of Calgary]], and a medical degree and fellowship training in Public Health and Preventive Medicine from the [[University of Alberta]]. 
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 +===== Affiliations ===== 
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 +Dr. Klein served as the Deputy Medical Officer of Health for the Government of Alberta. She represented Alberta in the [[Pan-Canadian Public Health Network]] on their Communicable and Infectious Disease steering committee.((//Communicable and Infectious Disease Steering Committee Members.// (2019, July 22). Pan-Canadian Public Health Network. https://archive.ph/90MOf)) 
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 +She holds two positions with [[public_health_agencies:canada:Alberta Health Services]], serving as Associate Provincial Medical Officer of Health for Communicable Disease Control and as a local Medical Officer of Health for Northern Alberta.((//Importance of Immunization: COVID-19.// (2020, July 2). Alberta Health Services. https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/topics/page17175.aspx)) ((de Villiers, A., Koliaska, K., Benadé, G., & Klein, K. (2019, October). //To: Superintendents of Schools in the Alberta Health Services - North Zone.// Alberta Health Services. https://web.archive.org/web/20220418051456/https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/assets/info/hp/phys/nor/if-hp-phys-moh-nz-school-outbreak-letter.pdf)) ((Kerr, M. (2021, April 21). //COVID-vaccine Q and A with Dr. Kristin Klein.// Lakeland Connect. https://archive.ph/GgGQa)) She also serves as the co-chair of the AHS Vaccine Task Force.((Walmsley, L. (2021, March 9). //Request for Decision - AHS COVID-19 Community Conversation.// Village of Hines Creek. https://web.archive.org/web/20211211052111/http://hinescreek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/5c.-Alberta-Health-Services-COVID-19-Community-Conversion.pdf)) 
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 +She has contributed to several provincial and national committees including representing the [[Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health]] as liaison member to the [[National Advisory Committee on Immunization]] (NACI). She is also an assistant clinical professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta.((//Profile | Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry.// University of Alberta. Retrieved April 17, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220418064008/https://www.ualberta.ca/medicine/about/people/details.html?n=kristin-klein))
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