#386: Deirdre Tobias, ScD – Study Design, Diet Collection Methods and Nutrition Epidemiology

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🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Dr. Tobias is a nutrition and obesity epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. She received doctoral and postdoctoral training from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, under mentor Dr. Frank B. Hu.

Dr. Tobias is co-Instructor of Nutrition Epidemiology with Dr. Walter Willett and faculty member at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Her epidemiologic research focuses on identifying lifestyle risk factors and underlying mechanisms related to obesity and its major chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes and cancer.

Dr. Tobias is currently the Academic Editor for the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. This is episode 386. My name is Danny Lennon, and in a moment I'll be joined by my co-host,
0:24.0	Alan Flanagan, and we are going to be talking today with Dr. Deirdre Tobias, who is a nutrition
0:30.5	and obesity epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital at the Harvard Medical School in
0:35.8	Boston. And she is also the academic editor for the
0:40.3	American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. And she's really someone who understands nutritional
0:46.3	epidemiology at a deep level. And we wanted to get into some of those finer details. So if you
0:52.8	are a regular listening to this podcast, you may remember
0:55.2	episode 378, where myself and Alan discussed nutrition epidemiology. And if you haven't heard that
1:02.5	yet, I think it might be useful to go and listen to that episode first, because it very much
1:06.3	sets the stage for some of the ideas we're going to explore and even a bit more depth today with
1:12.5	Dr. Tobias. And particularly for those of you who maybe don't have a nutrition science or a
1:18.8	research background, that episode will be really useful in order to understand some of today's
1:23.6	conversation, seeing as we are get into the very details of nutrition methods in research
1:31.3	and some of the applications of epidemiology. So it is going to get quite nerdy at some points,
1:37.2	but I think many of you will like that. And I think particularly if you are a student of nutrition
1:43.2	science, if you are working in research, if you are a student of nutrition science, if you are working in research,
1:46.6	if you are an academic who really loves exploring particularly epidemiology, then I think
1:53.3	this will be a great episode. But even for those of you who are not in those circles, if you want
1:58.0	a better idea of how to understand nutrition science, then I think
2:01.9	this will hopefully shed a light on some really core interesting ideas. And like I said,
2:06.8	off the back of that episode that we did, of which many of you really found valuable, I think
2:12.4	this will be a perfect follow-up. And there's maybe very few people better to discuss this than Dr. DeBias, who like I said,
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