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Cristina Gago, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor
BU School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dr. Cristina Gago is an Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH), where she studies public health approaches to address inequities in nutrition outcomes among parents and young children living in poverty. More specifically, her current program of research focuses on identifying and addressing drivers of under-enrollment in federal nutrition assistance programs, through novel intervention approaches. In doing this work, her long-term career goal is to support healthy growth and development in early childhood through the design and evaluation of family-based interventions for nutrition promotion. Prior to joining BUSPH in 2023, she trained as a postdoctoral researcher at NYU Langone's Institute for Excellence in Health Equity, where her research focused on the evaluation of health behavior change interventions in the context of a large, Brooklyn-based federally qualified health center. Prior to that, she earned her PhD at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, where she examined key facilitators and barriers WIC and Head Start parents face in accessing healthful nutrition and health promotion resources for young children.

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