Wagner - Leadership

Robin Wagner, PhD, MS

Chief Science Officer:

Office of Public Health Scientific Services

Dr. Robin Wagner is the Chief Science Officer for the Office of Public Health Scientific Services (OPHSS). She has worked in the environmental health and injury fields for over 30 years in government, university and non-profit settings. Dr. Wagner returns to CDC after serving six years at the U.S. National Institutes of Health as the Director of the Division of Statistical Analysis and Reporting in the Office of Extramural Research, Office of the Director. Prior to that, she spent 12 years at CDC in a number of research and policy roles. As Associate Director for Research Planning and Evaluation in the Office of Public Health Research, she oversaw the development of CDC’s first agency-wide research agenda and research portfolio assessment program. She was a Team Leader at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control as well as the Deputy Associate Administrator for Science at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Dr. Wagner has a long-standing interest in the social and ethical implications of science and technology. She is currently the co-chair of the Research, Technology and Development Evaluation Topic Interest Group of the American Evaluation Association. She has served as a board member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Corporation and MIT Alumni Association, and spent 17 years as a member of the MIT Visiting Committee on Sponsored Research. She also was a board member of Student Pugwash, USA, a non-profit organization devoted to encouraging young scientists and engineers to consider the broader social contexts of their work.

Dr. Wagner has a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a M.S. in Technology and Policy from MIT, and a Sc.B. in Neuroscience and Behavior from Brown University.