C.J. Eisenbarth Hager serves as the Senior Research and Innovation Officer for Episcopal Health Foundation (EHF). C.J. provides leadership, strategy development and management of applied research projects. Through relationships with external partners, she identifies innovative practices and opportunities to further EHF’s commitment to improve community health.

C.J.’s work centers on promoting public policies and strategies that support healthy people and places. As a result, her work touches a number of different specialties and policy areas, including food systems, urban planning, land use, transportation, housing, community development and sustainability. She most recently was the founding director of Vitalyst Health Foundation’s (Phoenix, AZ) healthy communities portfolio, which focused on public policy, social determinants of health and health equity. She has also held positions with Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University, NeighborWorks America, the Minnesota House of Representatives and Minnesota Housing. She currently serves on the advisory boards for The Funders Network PLACES Fellowship, the University of Houston's HEALTH Center, and LISC Houston. C.J. received her bachelor’s degree in economics from Marquette University and a master’s degree in Community and Regional Planning from Kansas State University.