Youth/Child Cardiovascular and Environmental Health: Perspectives from South America

Speaker bio: 

Dr. Augusto De Moraes is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences at the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Austin.  He is also a research investigator of the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living. His research interests include determinants of cardiovascular health, multiple lifestyle-related behaviors, brain cognitive development, diagnostic/predictive methods, and their possible interactions with environmental determinants in young people from low- and high-income countries, including countries in North America, Latin America, and Europe. De Moraes is a member of the Scientific Societies: Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER), the SER Leadership and Executive Committee and International Subcommittee, the American Society of Nutrition (ASN), The Obesity Society (TOS), and the World Obesity Federation. Read more here.

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