Public Health - Seattle and King County
Prevention
401 Fifth Av, Suite 900
Seattle
WAUSA
98104-1818
Biographical Sketch: Jim Krieger, MD, MPH is chief of the Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Section at Public Health - Seattle & King County, and Clinical Professor of Medicine and Health Services and Attending Physician at the University of Washington. He has over 20 years of experience in epidemiology, community health assessment, public health program and policy development, community-based participatory research, community-based coalitions and partnerships and chronic disease control and prevention.
His current public health work focuses on interventions to reduce health disparities in obesity, diabetes, asthma, tobacco, healthy eating and active living by addressing social and physical environmental determinants of health with support from NIH, CDC, Kellogg Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funding. He directs a $25 million ARRA grant from CDC that is focused on healthy eating, active living and tobacco through creation of policy, systems and environment change. He has played a key role in development and evaluation of the Seattle-King County menu-labeling regulation. He is currently PI on three NIH grants: evaluating the effectiveness of community health worker home visits for adults with asthma and, for adults with diabetes, and assessing the effectiveness of community-led policy and systems change to increase physical activity at public housing sites. Previous studies with NIH and CDC funding have assessed the impact of home visits and improved housing conditions on children with asthma. He has also initiated and played a lead role in multiple community-based partnerships that address health inequities including REACH, Steps, Allies Against Asthma (RWJF) and Food and Fitness (Kellogg)
He has authored more than 35 peer-reviewed publications and numerous book chapters. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Childhood Obesity Action for Local Governments in 2008- 2009. He is chair of the NACCHO Big Cities Chronic Disease Community of Practice that focuses on public health policy actions to address healthy eating and active living. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the US Secretary of Health and Human Services’ Innovation in Prevention Award.
He received his undergraduate degree at Harvard, completed medical training at the University of California, San Francisco in internal medicine and received his master's of public health degree at University of Washington.