Mary Beth Weber, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor | Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health
Nutrition and Health Sciences Program Faculty | Laney Graduate School

Biography


Dr. Mary Beth Weber’s work focuses on diabetes prevention particularly through lifestyle change and implementing proven interventions at the community level; understanding the behavioral factors associated with diabetes and other cardiometabolic disease prevention and management; and using implementation science tools and mixed methods to plan and evaluate interventions. Examples of recent and on-going studies include

  • The South Asian Health And Prevention Education study (SHAPE, clinicaltrials.gov #NCT01084928) a pilot and feasibility study describing the importance of cultural barriers and facilitators to lifestyle change in US South Asians and showing that a culturally adapted version of the US Diabetes Prevention program was feasible and acceptable for this community.
  • The Diabetes Community Lifestyle Improvement Program (D-CLIP, clinicaltrials.gov #NCT01283308) which showed that while expert recommendations for diabetes prevention (lifestyle modification with metformin if needed) could effectively reduce diabetes risk in high-risk individuals in India, effects were no consistent across subtype of prediabetes.
  • The INtegrating DIAbetes prevention in WORKplaceS (INDIA-WORKS, clinicaltrials.gov #NCT02813668) multisite trial is testing the effectiveness, feasibility, and cost-effectiveness of a worksite-based lifestyle intervention for reducing cardiometabolic risk at 11 worksites across INDIA
  • PEACH2 (clinicaltrials.gov #NCT06141850) is testing in an adaptive intervention trial of text-message behavioral nudges for changing COVID-19 testing and other lifestyle behaviors for individuals affected by diabetes.

In addition to these studies, Dr. Weber adds qualitative and intervention evaluation expertise to studies testing care models and tools in diabetes and hypertension management, treatment of chronic kidney disease, long COVID, and early child feeding practices.

Dr. Weber is the Enrichment Co-director for the Georgia Center for Diabetes Translation Research and the Co-Director of Graduate Studies for the Nutrition and Health Sciences Doctoral Program.

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Mary Beth Weber, PhD, MPH

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