Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine-Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
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.
BA, 2005, Premed, psychology
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
MSc, 2009, Epidemiology
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
ScD, 2011, Nutritional Epidemiology; Epidemiology
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Birukov A, Guasch-Ferré M, Ley SH, Tobias DK, Wang F, Wittenbecher C, Yang J, Manson JE, Chavarro JE, Hu FB, Zhang C.
Diabetes Care. 2024 Apr 01. 47(4):720-728. PMID: 38377484
Pacheco LS, Tobias DK, Li Y, Bhupathiraju SN, Willett WC, Ludwig DS, Ebbeling CB, Haslam DE, Drouin-Chartier JP, Hu FB, Guasch-Ferré M.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2024 Mar 21. PMID: 38522480
Nguyen M, Jarvis SE, Chiavaroli L, Mejia SB, Zurbau A, Khan TA, Tobias DK, Willett WC, Hu FB, Hanley AJ, Birken CS, Sievenpiper JL, Malik VS.
JAMA Pediatr. 2024 Mar 01. 178(3):237-246. PMID: 38227336
Tessier AJ, Wang F, Liang L, Wittenbecher C, Haslam DE, Eliassen AH, Tobias DK, Li J, Zeleznik OA, Ascherio A, Sun Q, Stampfer MJ, Grodstein F, Rexrode KM, Manson JE, Balasubramanian R, Clish CB, Martínez-González MA, Chavarro JE, Hu FB, Guasch-Ferré M.
Med. 2024 Mar 08. 5(3):224-238.e5. PMID: 38366602
Ahmad A, Lim LL, Morieri ML, Tam CH, Cheng F, Chikowore T, Dudenhöffer-Pfeifer M, Fitipaldi H, Huang C, Kanbour S, Sarkar S, Koivula RW, Motala AA, Tye SC, Yu G, Zhang Y, Provenzano M, Sherifali D, de Souza RJ, Tobias DK, Gomez MF, Ma RCW, Mathioudakis N.
Commun Med (Lond). 2024 Jan 22. 4(1):11. PMID: 38253823
Semnani-Azad Z, Gaillard R, Hughes AE, Boyle KE, Tobias DK, Perng W.
Commun Med (Lond). 2024 Jan 12. 4(1):9. PMID: 38216688
Pacheco LS, Tobias DK, Li Y, Bhupathiraju SN, Willett WC, Ludwig DS, Ebbeling CB, Haslam DE, Drouin-Chartier JP, Hu FB, Guasch-Ferré M.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2024 Mar. 119(3):669-681. PMID: 38185281
Tobias DK, Hamaya R, Clish CB, Liang L, Deik A, Dennis C, Bullock K, Zhang C, Hu FB, Manson JE.
Diabetes Metab Res Rev. 2024 Jan. 40(1):e3763. PMID: 38287718
Mendoza K, Tobias DK.
Adv Nutr. 2024 Jan. 15(1):100157. PMID: 38245357
Tobias DK, Papatheodorou S, Yamamoto JM, Hu FB.
Diabetes Care. 2023 11 01. 46(11):1882-1893. PMID: 37890100
Daily consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages may heighten the risk of developing cardiovascular disease even among those with above average physical activity levels, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School.
A new Harvard Chan School study has identified a group of metabolites associated with risk of mortality, and another group linked with longevity.
People could potentially add years to their lives by switching from a typical Western diet—high in animal products and sugar—to a more plant-based diet.
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to choosing a diet, according to dietitians and health experts.
While some studies have suggested that the paleo diet—which focuses on “caveman” foods such as meat, produce, and nuts—may have health benefits, experts argue that the evidence is murky.