====== Melissa Potestio ======

**Melissa Potestio**, PhD, MSc, BSc is a Canadian community health scientist based in [[canada:alberta:Calgary]], [[canada:Alberta]].

===== Education =====

Potestio completed her Bachelor of Science at [[Simon Fraser University]] in 2002. She attended [[Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health]]'s Graduate Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. 

===== Career =====

Potestio is an adjunct assistant professor at the [[University of Calgary]]'s [[Cumming School of Medicine]] in the Department of Community Health Sciences.((//Melissa Potestio CV.// University of Calgary. Retrieved October 27, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221027161536/https://contacts.ucalgary.ca/info/med/profiles/1-4840772/melissa-potestio-cv.pdf)) She worked as Interim Scientific Director for [[Alberta Health Services]]' Population, Public and Indigenous Health Strategic Clinical Network.

She is a co-investigator for the [[Four Winds Initiative]], co-funded by [[Alberta Health Services]] and [[Alberta Innovates]].((//Four Winds Initiative.// Together 4 Health. Retrieved October 27, 2022, from https://together4health.albertahealthservices.ca/south-zone))

==== COVID-19 ====

During the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Postetio served on the [[AHS COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Group]] under [[Alberta Health Services]] as a population, public and indigenous health representative.