Dr. Taveras is a health services researcher and board certified pediatrician. She co-directs the Department of Population Medicine’s Obesity Prevention Program at Harvard Medical School and is the Director of the One Step Ahead Program at Children’s Hospital Boston, a multi-disciplinary pediatric obesity prevention clinic.
She is Co-PI, of the High Five for Kids study, a large, NIH-funded, cluster randomized controlled trial to improve primary care prevention of obesity among preschool-age children.
Dr. Taveras has extensive expertise in epidemiologic investigations into the developmental origins of obesity, pediatrics, obesity prevention and treatment, examining racial/ethnic disparities, and direction of cluster randomized trials in the clinical setting.