Sara comes to OSU from University of South Carolina, where she was an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences in the Arnold School of Public Health. She received her D.Env. in Environmental Science and Engineering and MS in Statistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Sarah is currently a principal investigator on studies funded by National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, on maternal methylmercury exposure through rice ingestion and the neurodevelopment impacts of children in rural China.