Deirdre Tobias ScD, SM

Dr. Tobias is a nutrition and obesity epidemiologist and Assistant Professor at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Tobias received her doctorate in nutrition epidemiology at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and completed her postdoctoral fellowship under the mentorship of Dr. Frank Hu. Her primary research interests include identifying dietary and lifestyle risk factors for the prevention of obesity-related chronic diseases, including diabetes and cancer. She holds a secondary faculty appointment at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and is a co-instructor for nutrition epidemiology.