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Christa L. Wagner, PhD

Christa L. Wagner, PhD

Director, Center for Sustainability, Health, and the Environment; Assistant Professor, Division of Community Health

Locations

  • Institute for Health & Equity
  • MEB M1100

Contact Information

Education

Postdoctoral, Johns Hopkins University of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
PhD, Johns Hopkins University of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
BA with Honors, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Biography

Christa Wagner, PhD, was named as the Founding Director of the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Center for Sustainability, Health, and the Environment (MCW SHE Center), housed within the Institute for Health & Equity (IHE) in July 2023. She also holds an appointment as Assistant Professor in the IHE Division of Community Health. The mission of the MCW SHE Center is to be a distinguished leader and innovator to foster a healthy and equitable environment, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and waste, and mitigate and resiliently adapt to climate challenges. Under Christa’s leadership, the SHE Center supports climate action to pioneer environmentally sustainable paths to a healthier world through interdisciplinary collaborations and projects across MCW’s missions of education, research, patient care, and community engagement.

Prior to joining MCW, Christa served as Manager in the Office of Government Relations at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) where she was responsible for legislative policy and advocacy in support of medical research, public health, and academic medicine’s partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs. She also advocated for environmental and sustainability progress including funding for hospital resiliency. Christa transitioned from the laboratory to health and science policy in serving as the 2016-2017 Genetics and Public Policy Fellow sponsored by the American Society of Human Genetics and the National Institutes of Health’s National Human Genome Research Institute, including experience on Capitol Hill as a Health Fellow in the United States Senate. Christa earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biochemistry from Oberlin College and her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Medicine from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

MCW Program / Core Facilities

  • Center for Sustainability, Health and the Environment

Publications

Publications of Christa Wagner PhD from the Faculty Collaboration Database

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