Lead Chronic Disease Epidemiologist
Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Sara L. Huston is the Lead Chronic Disease Epidemiologist for the Maine CDC and is an Associate Research Professor of Public Health at the University of Southern Maine. Dr. Huston has more than 25 years of experience in applied public health epidemiology and surveillance. After earning her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Dr. Huston began her career in applied epidemiology as a U.S. CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer. Post EIS, She served as the Cardiovascular Epidemiologist for the North Carolina Division of Public Health and on the faculty of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health for 15 years, until her move back to Maine in 2010. Dr. Huston currently serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Preventing Chronic Disease and is a former Executive Board Member of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.