Deirdre Kay Tobias

Biography

Dr. Deirdre Tobias is an obesity and nutritional epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. She received her doctorate and postdoctoral training at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Dr. Tobias was appointed the Academic Editor for the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2019. Her research focuses on the role of diet and lifestyle for obesity and its major chronic diseases, including gestational diabetes and type 2 diabetes, and has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American Medical Association. She contributes to the development and analyses of healthful dietary patterns, metabolomics, and nutrition epidemiologic methods, and is co-Instructor of Nutritional Epidemiology at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.

Education and Training

• BA, Premed, psychology
  College of the Holy Cross
• MSc, Epidemiology
  Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
• ScD, Nutritional Epidemiology; Epidemiology
  Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Publications

• Improving nutrition science begins with asking better questions.

  Stern D, Ibsen DB, MacDonald CJ, Chiu YH, Lajous M, Tobias DK. Am J Epidemiol 2024 Nov 04

• Physical activity before and after cancer diagnosis and mortality risk in three large prospective cohorts.

  Christopher CN, Chandler PD, Zhang X, Tobias DK, Hazra A, Gaziano JM, Buring JE, Lee IM, Sesso HD. Cancer Causes Control 2024 Oct 08

• Effects of Nonnutritive Sweeteners on the BMI of Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials and Prospective Cohort Studies.

  Espinosa A, Mendoza K, Laviada-Molina H, Rangel-Méndez JA, Molina-Segui F, Sun Q, Tobias DK, Willett WC, Mattei J. Adv Nutr 2024 Sep 13

• Integration of epidemiological and blood biomarker analysis links haem iron intake to increased type 2 diabetes risk.

  Wang F, Glenn AJ, Tessier AJ, Mei Z, Haslam DE, Guasch-Ferré M, Tobias DK, Eliassen AH, Manson JE, Clish C, Lee KH, Rimm EB, Wang DD, Sun Q, Liang L, Willett WC, Hu FB. Nat Metab 2024

• Invited commentary: five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred calories, how do you measure diet in a year?

  Tobias DK. Am J Epidemiol 2024 Jul 20