Matt Mitschke is a Health Promotion Coordinator (HPC) with the Alberta Health Services Healthy Children and Youth Team in Edmonton. HPCs support school jurisdictions across Alberta to create healthy school communities through a Comprehensive School Health (CSH) approach; an evidence-based approach for improving health and learning outcomes. Matt has a bachelor’s degree in health sciences from the University of Lethbridge, where he focused on applied public health and population health promotion. Matt has experience in vaccine-preventable disease surveillance, indigenous health promotion and school health promotion. He is an energetic and passionate health promoter, with over five years of experience facilitating school health promotion in Alberta. In his spare time, Matt enjoys cooking, travelling, as well as fixing and riding bicycles.
Kristy Baron is a Health Promotion Coordinator with Alberta Health Services who works with school jurisdictions to help their schools be healthier. She has worked in school and community health promotion in both rural and urban settings with Alberta Health Services since 2012. Kristy strongly believes in the power of communities to drive change. She has been fortunate to have volunteered and worked with amazing community-minded people and organizations in Alberta and across the world. One week after graduating with her BSc from the University of Alberta in 2008, she moved to Ecuador and began a multi-year journey of living and working abroad, culminating with an international Health Education internship in Kenya in 2011. She now spends her “free time” studying her Masters of Public Health in Health Promotion.