James Krieger, MD, MPH

Chief
Public Health - Seattle and King County
Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention
401 Fifth Ave, Suite 900
Seattle, WA
USA 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, and chronic disease control and prevention. Throughout his distinguished public health career, Dr. Krieger has worked with multiple sectors to implement and evaluate menu labeling in King County, design and build healthy public housing communities, reduce access to sugary beverages, and develop and evaluate community health worker interventions to address chronic disease. He has also played a lead role in multi-sector community-based partnerships that address health inequities, including REACH, Steps, Allies Against Asthma (RWJF) and Food and Fitness (Kellogg). He was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Childhood Obesity Action for Local Governments in 2008- 2009. He partners with NACCHO as founding chair of the Big Cities Chronic Disease Community of Practice that focuses on multi-sector policy actions to address healthy eating and active living. Dr. Krieger serves as the Principal Investigator for Seattle & King County’s obesity and tobacco Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) program. One of the major initiatives includes incorporating healthy community elements into local planning and land use decisions through the coordination and engagement of local governments, planning agencies, consultants and public health.

Papers:
4097.0 Evaluating progress of obesity prevention: What should communities be doing? 4313.0 Rethinking local health department (LHD) roles in the safety net under health care reform: The central role of community health workers (CHWs)