Rachel Tabak, a registered dietitian, works on improving public health by promoting healthy nutrition and physical activity and preventing chronic diseases. Her main focus areas are interventions and environment and policy influences for promotion of healthy eating and activity behaviors in a number of community settings. This includes healthy eating and activity promotion embedded within home visiting.
Tabak’s work includes translation and evaluation of evidence-based chronic disease prevention interventions that allow for broad reach. She examines how key partners, including researchers, advocates, and policymakers, affect how research evidence is transformed into programs and policies.
Areas of Focus:
- Nutrition
- Physical activity
- Chronic disease prevention
- Dissemination and implementation science
Featured publications
- Cross-sectional associations between inner setting determinants of self-efficacy and intent to deliver a healthy eating and activity curriculum embedded in a community setting
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
April 2025 - Using the socioecological model to explore factors associated with obesity among reproductive age women
Frontiers in Public Health
February 2025 - Sleep, stress, and cardiometabolic health in women of child-bearing age with overweight and obesity
Women’s Health Reports
February 2024