Christina is an expert and consultant in healthcare and food systems transformation with more than 12 years of experience. She supports clients and partners to improve care delivery and health outcomes through innovation informed by evidence generation and multidisciplinary collaboration. She empowers current and future healthcare providers and other audiences to adopt healthier behaviors and reduce harmful environmental exposures. She directs education for diverse stakeholders about the farm bill’s myriad impacts on the food system and opportunities for positive change. She has extensive experience in research, writing, and presenting to both professional and public audiences to help various clients convey their stories and evidence to inform practice and policy improvement. Her expertise in healthy cooking and culinary medicine equips her to teach audiences spanning from medical students to retired seniors through the field of culinary medicine as well as develop recipes and publish cookbooks. In her most recent full-time role in healthcare consulting at Avalere, her work focused on mixed methods in analyzing disparities in cancer care, facilitating diabetes and malnutrition quality improvement and developing quality measures now used in CMS payment programs, designing payer engagement strategies, advancing the food is medicine field, and further addressing social determinants of health to improve health for patients and the public.