Dr. Al Snih is a Professor in the Department of Population Health and Health Disparities in the School of Public and Population Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. She is also Assistant Dean for Academic Programs and a senior fellow of the Sealy Center on Aging. Dr. Al Snih has more than 25 years of experience in conducting research in Hispanic older adults, with emphasis on older Mexican Americans. Her research examines health outcomes using large datasets focusing on functional outcomes, muscle strength, disability, frailty, and health disparities in older adults. Dr. Al Snih has mentored over 100 graduate students (MS, MPH, and PhD), medical students, fellows, visiting scholars, and junior faculty.

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

• Medical Doctor (1986) – Universidad Central de Venezuela
• Internal Medicine Residency (1991) – Universidad Central de Venezuela
• Rheumatology Fellowship (1993) – Universidad Central de Venezuela
• Master of Science (2001) – University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas
• PhD in Preventive Medicine and Community Health – University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas

• Aging in Hispanics
• Frailty and health outcomes
• Functional assessment (muscle strength and physical performance) and disability
• Population health and health disparities.
• Obesity and related health outcomes (disability, diabetes, and mortality)

1 P30 AG059301-01 (Markides – Riosmena MPI)

Sponsor: NIH/National Institute on Aging
Title: The Texas Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR)
Goal: Provide an infrastructure that facilities the development of research on health and aging in minority populations with special focus on the Hispanic population in the United States as well as in Mexico.
Period: 07/01/23 – 06/30/28
Role: Associate Leader of the Leadership and Administrative Core and Associate Leader of the Analysis Core

HRSA-22-042 Centers of Excellence (Pérez – PI)

Sponsor: HRSA-22-042
Title: UTMB Center of Excellence for Professional Advancement and Research (COEPAR).
Goal: To strengthen the nation’s capacity to produce a diverse, culturally competent health care workforce. COE will provide funding for innovative resource and education centers to recruit, train, and retain underrepresented minority students and faculty at health professions schools.
Period: 07/01/23 – 06/30/27
Role: Co-Investigator. Faculty/Student Research Core Lead

P30 AG024832 (Morrow - Goodwin - MPI)

Sponsor: NIH/National Institute on Aging
Title: UTMB Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center
Goal: The major goal of this center grant is to optimize functional recovery in diverse geriatric populations using an integrative approach to translate basic discoveries into interventions for functional recovery and improve the trajectories of functional loss and disability.
Period: 06/01/10-06/30/25
Role: Hispanic Aging Council

2 P30 AG024832-16 (Morrow - Goodwin - MPI)

Sponsor: NIH/National Institute on Aging
Title: UTMB Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC)
The major goal of this center grant is to conduct translational research on ways for older Americans to lead a more independent life. The center is focused on translating pathways of function loss and gain into Interventions to optimize functional recovery in diverse geriatric populations.
Period: 8/1/2020 – 6/30/25
Role: Hispanic Aging Council

T32 AG000270 (Downer- PI)

Sponsor: NIH/National Institute on Aging
Title: Health of Older Minorities
Goal: Pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training program to recruit academically promising candidates into the study of health of older minorities.
Period: 09/01/23 – 08/31/28 
Role: Mentor

Publications

• Research Expert Profile: https://researchexperts.utmb.edu/en/persons/soham-al-snih-al-snih
• PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=snih&sort=pubdate&page=2
• Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Soham_Al_Snih  
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xRSV7I0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
  

Affiliations

• Department of Population Health and Health Disparities
• Division of Geriatrics / Department of Internal Medicine/John Sealy School of Medicine
• Nutrition Sciences and Health Behavior/School of Health Professions
• Senior Fellow of the Sealy Center on Aging