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.

Tabak works with community-based organizations to develop, implement, and evaluate interventions to promote healthy eating and physical activity and to prevent and manage chronic disease.

Tabak teaches Epidemiology at the School of Public Health.