Suratha Elango is a primary care pediatrician and community health advocate with Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine. She is passionate about creating stronger systems across sectors to help vulnerable children and families thrive. She moved to Houston in August 2017 and works clinically with an underserved Medicaid population at the Center for Children and Women Southwest. She is currently working on the Center's efforts to address food insecurity and is also looking at depression screening and suicidality across the Texas Children's primary care network. She completed her residency and chief residency in pediatrics at the University of California San Francisco. After residency, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania where she obtained a Master of Science in Health Policy.