Gregory R. Wagner is a physician and adjunct professor of environmental health at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. He previously served as the deputy assistant secretary of labor for the Mine Safety and Health Administration, senior advisor to the director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and as the NIOSH director of the Division of Respiratory Disease Studies.
Dr. Wagner’s work focuses on the science behind occupational and environmental policies and regulations, and the process of improving health protections at work. At Harvard, he also chairs the Policy Working Group for the Harvard Center for Work, Health, and Wellbeing.
Wagner has worked closely with both the World Health Organization and International Labour Organization and has served on numerous expert committees nationally and internationally. Board-certified in both internal and preventive medicine (occupational health), he has practiced rural primary care medicine and taught both medicine and public health.
