Christa Wagner, PhD is the founding director of the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Center for Sustainability, Health, and the Environment and Assistant Professor in the Community Health division of the Institute for Health & Humanity. Under Christa’s leadership, the Center works to advance sustainability efforts in health care delivery and research; educate about climate impacts on health; generate new knowledge about the environment and health; and collaborate with communities to learn about and address the impacts of climate and the environment on health. Prior to joining MCW, Dr. Wagner served as manager of government relations at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in Washington, DC, 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. From 2016-2017, she contributed to policy developments in the executive and legislative branches of the federal government as the Genetics and Public Policy Fellow sponsored by the American Society of Human Genetics and the NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute. Dr. Wagner 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.