She is also an Adjunct Researcher and Faculty Member at the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico (INSP). Dr. Salvo joined UTHealth School of Public Health in January, 2015 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living. Prior to this, she worked as a Biomedical Research Associate at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. She earned her PhD in Biomedical Sciences (Nutrition and Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Public Health track) from Emory University in 2013, and served as the Co-Principal Investigator for the IPEN study in Mexico (IPEN: International Physical Activity Environment Network).