VtPHA Board of Directors..

• Heidi Klein, MSPH - Jericho, VT - President
  Heidi Klein, MSPH is an independent consultant with 20 years of experience in public health practice, community engagement, and community environmental health planning. She provides training and facilitative services, conducts formative and qualitative research, and offers technical assistance in collaborative project design. Heidi was a founding member of VtPHA and is a 20 year member of the APHA where she has held leadership positions on the Environment Section Council and Governing Council. She is most interested in public policies that support positive opportunities at the intersection between public health, land use planning, environmental protection and economic development.
  
  
• Penrose Jackson - Hinesburg, VT - Treasurer
  Penrose Jackson is the Director of Community Health Improvement at Fletcher Allen Health Care. She is currently a board member of the Kids Safe Collaborative, Linking Learning to Life, Rotary Club of South Burlington, and UVM Alumni. Her public interests include water, food safety, public health initiatives( e.g. Tobacco), community-based supports that prevent or help with the management of of chronic conditions. Penrose is a graduate of the University of Vermont.
  
  



• Sasha Bianchi, MPH - Moretown, VT
  Sasha K. Bianchi joined the board in May 2010. She earned her Master of Public Health degree in Health Behavior and Health Education from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Sasha is the District Director for the Barre and Morrisville offices of the Vermont Department of Health. She also serves on the Board for the Northeastern Vermont Area Health Education Centers. Other public health interests include health care access, rural health, and infectious diseases, especially in displaced and underserved populations.
  
  
• Bob Costantino, MPH; Montpelier, VT
  Bob Costantino, MPH, is employed by the Vermont Dept. for Children and Families as a Health and Early Childhood systems planner. Bob has been working in public health for over 30 years, including nine years of refugee relief work in Southeast Asia. He is a founding member and Past President of the Vermont Public Health Association and now serves as the VtPHA representative to the APHA Governing Council. Bob is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, School of Public Health.
  
  
• Joyce Gallimore, MPH – South Burlington, VT
  Joyce is an independent health consultant doing business as GS Associates, LLC. She provides contract services based on 30 years of experience in quality improvement, healthy lifestyle choices, consumer education & engagement, government programs and health care delivery. She implemented quality improvement & consumer protection initiatives for MVP Health Care in Vermont for 10 years. She managed government subsidized programs for MVP in New York. She directed the regulation and surveillance of licensed ambulatory care and managed care operations for the NYS Department of Health for 10 years. Joyce earned a Masters in Public Health from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
  
  
• Brian Flynn, ScD, - Shelburne, VT
  Brian Flynn is Director of the Office of Health Promotion Research, and Professor of Family Medicine at the UVM College of Medicine. His public health interests focus on health behavior and disease prevention and program evaluation. Brian has been on the VtPHA board since 2005 and currently serves as vice-president. He also has been appointed to chair the Vermont Tobacco Evaluation and Review Board that evaluates and coordinates the state-wide tobacco control program.
  
  
• Theo Kennedy - Middlesex, VT
  Theo Kennedy received his Bachelor of Arts Cum Laude from Middlebury College in 1983. After college, he worked as an administrator for Brookline Public Schools in Brookline, Massachusetts before pursuing graduate studies. He received his Juris Doctor in 1991 and Master of Public Health in 1994 from Boston University. Theo worked for the State of Vermont for eleven and a half years starting in 1999. He spent two and a half of those years as the Director of Health Rates and Forms in the Vermont Health Care Administration, and for the past seven years was the Director of Planning, Policy and Regulation at the Vermont Department for Children and Families. He is currently a general practitioner of law in the private sector with an emphasis on environmental health and public policy.
  
  
• Sally Kerschner, RN, MSN - Ferrisburgh, VT
  Sally Kerschner, MSN, RN is the MCH Planning Specialist, Division of Maternal and Child Health at the Vermont Department of Health. Employed by the Vermont Dept of Health since 1983 in a variety of supervisory and management positions for programs dealing with community health and Maternal and Child Health. Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Kappa Tau Chapter Board member since 2000. American Public Health Association. Vermont Public Health Association board Member since 2008. Professional interests in population health planning, systems development, public health policy, and maternal and child health issues such as environmental, periconceptual health, injury prevention, and rural health.
  
  
• Amy Lefevre - Essex Junction, VT
  Amy Lefevre joined the board in May 2010. She currently works as a health educator for Marathon Health in Colchester, VT. Amy earned her Master of Education degree in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention from Springfield College. Her interests in public health include women and children’s health, occupational health and health promotion.
  
  
• Lila Ortuno, BSN, RN - Williston, VT
  Lila joined VtPHA as a board member in May 2011. She graduated from the University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2010. Her involvement with the VtPHA began as a student consultant while attending UVM. Interests in public health include preventative health with a focus on chronic illnesses, and improving healthcare literacy. She is currently working as a Hospice and Palliative Care nurse at the VNA Chittenden & Grand Isle Counties. She is also the Secretary for STTI Nursing Honor Society, Kappa Tau chapter.
  
  
• Burton Wilke, Jr., Ph.D., - S. Burlington, VT
  Burt Wilcke Chairs the Department of Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Vermont. Teaches in the areas of microbiology and public health. Formerly was the Director Health Surveillance for the Vermont Department of Health. Have also worked in public health in Michigan and California. Interested in infectious diseases, environmental health and global health. Past president of VtPHA.