Christopher Pfledderer

Christopher Pfledderer is an Assistant Professor at the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Austin. His research focuses on optimizing the scale-up of childhood obesity interventions from implementation and translational perspectives, with expertise in school-based physical activity promotion and observational studies of 24-hour movement behavior in rural and urban communities.

• Affiliated with the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living
• Combines community-based intervention research with context-specific approaches to identify barriers and facilitators to meeting movement behavior guidelines
• Leverages experience as a former K12 teacher to inform public health strategies