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Ann Weber, Ph.D., MPH

Associate Professor
Ann Weber

Summary

Public health has made enormous progress in reducing infant and child mortality worldwide, but continues to fall short of ensuring that children who survive are able to thrive. Much of Ann Weber's work focuses on applying rigorous epidemiologic and statistical methods to test the effectiveness of large-scale and integrated interventions aimed at improving child growth and development in low-income settings. The main goal of her research is to reduce health disparities that arise in situations of poverty, inadequate education and gender and racial inequality, both domestically and globally. As a complementary area of research, she seeks to develop and validate new metrics with which to assess interventions and the pathways to their success in diverse contexts. Because the goal of reducing disparities in child outcomes crosses disciplinary boundaries, her research also intersects with the fields of maternal health, nutrition, developmental psychology, education, biostatistics and economics.

Selected publications

  1. Weber, A. M., Cislaghi, B., Meausoone, V., Abdalla, S., Mejía-Guevara, I., Loftus, P., Hallgren, E., et al. (2019). Gender norms and health: Insights from global survey data. The Lancet, 393(10189), 2455-2468.
  2. Galasso, E., Weber, A. M., Stewart, C. P., Ratsifandrihamanana, L. & Fernald, L. C. H. (2019). Effects of nutritional supplementation and home visiting on growth and development in young children in Madagascar: A cluster-randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Global Health, 7(9), e1257-e1268.
  3. Weber, A. M., Galasso, E., & Fernald, L. C. H. (2019). Perils of scaling up: Effects of expanding a nutrition programme in Madagascar. Maternal & Child Nutrition, 15(3), e12715.
  4. Weber, A. M., Darmstadt, G. L., Gruber, S., Foeller, M. E., Carmichael, S. L., Stevenson, D. K. & Shaw, G. M. (2018). Application of machine-learning to predict early spontaneous preterm birth among nulliparous non-Hispanic Black and White women. Annals of Epidemiology, 28(11), 783-789. 
  5. Weber, A. M., Marchman, V. A., Diop, Y. & Fernald, A. (2018). Validity of caregiver-report measures of language skill for Wolof-learning infants and toddlers living in rural African villages. Journal of Child Language, 45(4), 939-958. 
  6. Weber, A. M., Fernald, A. & Diop, Y. (2017). When cultural norms discourage talking to babies: Effectiveness of a parenting program in rural Senegal. Child Development, 88(5), 1513-1526. 
  7. Weber, A. M., Darmstadt, G. L. & Rao, N. (2017). Gender disparities in child development in the East Asia-Pacific region: A cross-sectional, population-based, multicountry observational study. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 1(3), 213-224.
  8. Weber, A. M., Fernald, L. C. H., Galasso, E. & Ratsifandrihamanana, L. (2015). Performance of a receptive language test among young children in Madagascar. PLOS ONE, 10(4), e0121767.
  9. Weber, A. M., Van Der Laan, M. J. & Petersen, M. L. (2015). Assumption trade-offs when choosing identification strategies for pre–post treatment effect estimation: An illustration of a community-based intervention in Madagascar. Journal of Causal Inference, 3(1), 109-130.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley
  • MPH in Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley