Hakique Virani is a Royal College specialist in Public Health and Preventive Medicine and a Diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. Both his public health and clinical work has been focused on special populations, including aboriginal communities, marginalized inner city patients, and incarcerated individuals.
As a Medical Officer of Health with the federal department of health, Dr. Virani led the Alberta public health response to the influenza pandemic of 2009 for the province's First Nations, achieving triple the provincial vaccination coverage for this population and deploying rapid flu assessment clinics using remote access health technology.
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