Rate My Professor Jonathan Klein

Dr. Klein's research interests encompass preventive services, confidentiality and access to care for adolescents, youth development, tobacco control, nicotine addiction, secondhand and thirdhand smoke exposure, e-cigarettes, marijuana use, obesity prevention, health services research, and global child health policy. He has led major initiatives such as the Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure (CEASE) national trial and contributed to US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations on adolescent tobacco use and screening. His influential publications include "Health information-seeking behaviour in adolescence: the place of the internet" (Social Science & Medicine, 2005), "COVID-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and adolescents" (The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2020), "Adolescent pregnancy: current trends and issues" (Pediatrics, 2005), and "Development of a definition of postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection" (JAMA, 2023). Dr. Klein has received awards including the Julius B. Richmond Award for excellence in child health and tobacco control (2022), Adele Hoffman Visiting Professorship in Adolescent Health (2021), and Millie and Richard Brock Award in Pediatrics (2010). His work has shaped clinical guidelines, position statements, and international efforts on child health.