Cristina Gago

Cristina Gago, PhD, is an assistant professor of community health sciences at Boston University School of Public Health and a fellow with the Evans Center for Implementation and Improvement Sciences. A public health nutrition researcher, she works to close nutrition disparities among low-income families with young children through equity-centered policy and systems interventions. Her partnership-grounded research applies implementation science and behavior change theory to evaluate federal nutrition assistance and social service programs, including WIC, SNAP, and Head Start, so they reach more families and are used more fully. She completed postdoctoral training at NYU Langone’s Institute for Excellence in Health Equity and earned her PhD at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.