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Dr. Arlene King

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Former Chief Medical Officer of Health, Province of Ontario

Dr. Arlene King led Ontario’s public health sector as the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH) from June 2009 to June 2014.  She also served as the provincial/territorial co-chair of the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network Council (PHNC) from June 2013 to June 2014, and was Ontario’s representative on the PHNC from 2009 to 2013 and a member of the Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health of Canada from 2009 to 2014. 
 
Dr. King is an internationally recognized expert in public health, immunization, infectious diseases and pandemic/emergency preparedness.  She currently is the Chair of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) and World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Commission for the Certification of Polio Eradication in the Americas; a member of the WHO Global Polio Eradication Certification Commission; and member of the PAHO Technical Advisory Group on Vaccine Preventable Diseases.  She also serves as a medical consultant on public health issues in Canada. 
 
She is a passionate advocate for public health at international, national,  sub-national and community levels, and strongly believes that Public Health is Everyone’s Business, as outlined in her 2009 CMOH Annual Report to Ontario’s Legislative AssemblyIn that report, she called on all levels of government to join in a renewed focus on prevention as the next evolution of health care.  In her 2010 Annual Report, Health, Not Health Care – Changing the Conversation, Dr. King’s advice to government to improve health was to focus on developing healthy public policies.  In 2013, she released Make No Little Plans - Ontario’s first public health sector strategic plan.  

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