Prof. Sarah E. Messiah, Ph.D., MPH, FTOS is a tenured Professor of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences and the Director for the Center for Pediatric Population Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT Health) School of Public Health. She is the Distinguished Chair of Pediatric Population Health and the Director of
the Center for Pediatric Population Health at UT Health School of Public Health. She holds adjunct appointments at UT Southwestern Medical Center in the School of Public Health, The Department of Pediatrics at McGovern Medical
School in Houston, TX, and in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She is formally trained as an advanced life course epidemiologist and has focused her career on examining unhealthy weight
and cardiometabolic disease across the life course. Her work focuses on cardiometabolic disease risk in youth as a result of obesity and treatment outcomes, including bariatric surgery to ameliorate these risks.
