Heidi Klein is a Managing Director, Healthy and Equitable Communities at HRiA.
Heidi brings 30+ years of strategic public health leadership working with leaders at the national, state, and local level to create healthy and equitable communities through public policy, cross-sector engagement, and community action. Her practice focuses on leading governmental innovation, guiding complex systems change, facilitating cross-sector dialogue [that brings together quantitative data with community voices and values], and building multidisciplinary teams that can navigate through uncertainty. Centering community voices to advance health equity and creating accountability structures in governmental agencies and health care systems has been fundamental in this work. she most recently served 10 years as Director of Planning for the Vermont Department of Â鶹ֱ²¥including 2 years as Operations Director and Â鶹ֱ²¥Equity Advisor in leading the state COVID-19 response. Previously she worked with a variety of state and national leaders including the National Association of County and City Â鶹ֱ²¥Officials (NACCHO), Association of State and Territorial Â鶹ֱ²¥Officials (ASTHO), American Public Â鶹ֱ²¥Association (APHA), Association of Public Â鶹ֱ²¥Laboratories (APHL), and National Network of Public Â鶹ֱ²¥Institutes (NNPHI). She is a founder of both the Vermont Public Â鶹ֱ²¥Association (VtPHA) and the Vermont Public Â鶹ֱ²¥Institute (VtPHI). Heidi received her Masters’ degree in Public Â鶹ֱ²¥at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and her BA in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.