Christopher Golden, PhD is an associate professor of planetary health and nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. As an ecologist and epidemiologist, his research investigates the human health impacts of global environmental change, with a focus on food systems. He received his BA from Harvard College and two graduate degrees from UC Berkeley: an MPH in Epidemiology with a focus in Nutrition, and a PhD in Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Golden has been conducting research in Madagascar since 1999, and founded the non-profit Madagascar Health and Environmental Research (MAHERY). He is the director of the Program in Nutrition and Planetary Health at HSPH, the co-director for the Concentration in Climate Change and Planetary Health, and sits on the faculty board for the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment. His research has been published in Nature, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His current research focuses on: 1) the role of climate-smart fisheries management to improve human nutrition; and 2) creating systems of climate-smart public health through climate and environmental monitoring and disease surveillance. (Cambridge, MA)