Dr. Wagner is a registered and licensed dietitian with a doctorate in public health. She’s certified in Public Health, Patient Safety, Lifestyle Medicine, Clinical Health Equity, Health Coaching, and a certified Community Health Worker Instructor. She’s an associate professor in the College of Public Health (CPH) and the College of Health Professions at the UNT Health Fort Worth. Dr. Wagner serves as the Director of the UNT Health Community Health Worker Training Center. She has delivered multiple programs, speaking engagements, and trainings on health literacy issues and associated topics related to community health. She also established a multi-stakeholder health literacy collaborative with the DFW Hospital Council Foundation and the CPH Health Literacy Lab.

Dr. Wagner has testified on health literacy legislation in Texas which helped place health literacy into the 2018-2020 State Health Plan. At the same time, her research focuses on building health equity in communities through health literacy to improve population health. As a result of her work, she has received both the 2018 Texas Health Literacy Hero Award as well as the 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award from Texas Christian University. In 2022, she was one of 25 National Institute of Health selected researchers to study the use of artificial intelligence to abate health disparities. In 2023, she received the UNTHSC School of Health Professions Faculty Achievement Award and in 2024, she received the Distinguished Dietitian Award from the Texas Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and Registered Dietitian of the Year from the National Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She was also inducted into the National Academies of Practice's inaugural Registered Dietitian Academy. In 2025, she received the CPH Super Site Supervisor Award and was named a Fellow of the Texas Public Health Association.