Dr. Sarah Knox, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology at West Virginia University School of Public Health. She began her research career at the Karolinska Institute and University of Stockholm in Sweden, where she became an Associate Professor doing research on Swedish twins. She subsequently moved to the U.S. and the National Institutes of Health, where she did epidemiologic research at the Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and subsequently held a leadership role in the protocol development of the National Children’s Study at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Her research has covered a broad range of topics including stress and cardiovascular disease, population genetics, systems biology, and environmental influences on human physiology.