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Healthy Weight Research Network @AvivaMust

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Aviva Must

Aviva Must

Professor, Public Health and Community Medicine
Professor, Pediatrics
Professor, Nutrition Epi & Data Science
Morton A. Madoff, M.D., M.P.H., Professorship in Public Health and Community Medicine, Public Health and Community Medicine
Aviva Must
Healthy Weight Research Network @AvivaMust

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Research/Areas of Interest

My research focuses on the epidemiology of obesity across the lifespan with a particular interest in physical and psychosocial health consequences during adolescence. Current projects explore bidirectional associations of child mental health with obesity, and effects of early obesity on tooth eruption. Additional research foci include the development of valid survey measures and surveillance systems for pediatric obesity and proximal modifiable behaviors (nutrition, physical activity, sedentary behavior). Recent efforts have been directed towards developing the descriptive epidemiology and health promotion for children with special health care needs, a population of youth who have been underserved by preventive health efforts, (ironically) due to their complex medical needs.

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, USA, 1991
  • Master of Science, Tufts University, USA, 1987
  • Bachelor of Arts, New York University, USA, 1976

Biography

Aviva Must is the Morton A. Madoff Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and a Professor in the Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts University. She has served as Director of he Clinical and Translational Pilot Studies Program for Tufts CTSI since 2011. She serves as co-director of the Healthy Weight Research Network for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Developmental Disabilities, now in its 13th year with funding by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of HRSA, USDHHS.