Jessica Cheng PhD

Dr. Jessica Cheng is a trained epidemiologist currently completing a postdoctoral fellowship with joint appointments in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health and Department of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research interests center around designing and evaluating multicomponent behavioral lifestyle interventions for the prevention of chronic disease as well as methodological complexities of measuring behavior. Her work has made extensive use of the Healthy Eating Index and data from weight loss trials. Dr. Cheng’s current work focuses on dietary changes in low-income populations. She is a trained coach for the Diabetes Prevention Program Group Lifestyle Balance (DPP-GLB) and is certified in public health (CPH).