Deirdre K. Tobias, ScD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Dr. Tobias is a nutrition and obesity epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. She also serves as Academic Editor for the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Dr. Tobias received her doctorate in epidemiology and nutrition from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Her research focuses on identifying lifestyle risk factors and underlying mechanisms related to obesity and its major chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. She contributes to the development and analyses of dietary patterns, metabolomics, and nutritional epidemiologic methods and is assistant professor at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Tobias is also the PI of a NIH-funded randomized intervention study of sugary beverage substitutions for weight loss and cardiometabolic health.

Presentation(s):

• (OR02-01-23) Plasma Proteomic Profiles of Sugar- and Artificially Sweetened Beverage Intake in Men and Women

  Saturday, July 22, 2023
  2:30 PM – 2:42 PM ET

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

• (PTFS03-07-23) Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods in Association With Long-Term Weight Change and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Among Individuals With a History of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

  Sunday, July 23, 2023
  8:29 AM – 8:33 AM ET

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

• Nutritional Epidemiology GEM Forum - Perspectives on Study Designs to Inform Causal Inference in Nutrition Research

  Monday, July 24, 2023
  6:00 PM – 7:30 PM ET

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.