Melissa Lynn Bondy is an American cancer epidemiologist serving as the chair of the department of epidemiology and population health at

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Life

Bondy earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975. She earned a M.S. (1982) in epidemiology with a focus on environmental science and a Ph.D. (1990) in epidemiology from the

UTHealth School of Public Health The UTHealth School of Public Health is one of six component institutions of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The Texas Legislature authorized the creation of a school of public health in 1947, but did not appropriate f ...

. Her dissertation is titled, ''Genetic Epidemiology of Childhood Brain Tumors''. Louise C. Strong was her dissertation supervisor. Patricia Happ Buffler was her academic advisor. From 2001 to 2013, Bondy served as the director and professor in the center for childhood cancer epidemiology and prevention at the UTHealth School of Public Health. She was a professor in the department of epidemiology in the division of cancer prevention at the MD Anderson Cancer Center from 2002 to 2011. From 2011 to 2016, she was a professor in the department of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. She served as the section head of epidemiology and population sciences from 2016 to 2019. In 2019, she became the inaugural chair and professor of the department of epidemiology and population health at

. Bondy was married to writer Morris Edelson until his death in 2017.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bondy, Melissa Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) University of Texas at Austin alumni UTHealth School of Public Health alumni University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston faculty Baylor College of Medicine faculty Stanford University School of Medicine faculty Cancer epidemiologists 21st-century American women scientists American women epidemiologists 21st-century American biologists