Chasan-Taber earns Spotlight Scholar honors

Epidemiologist Lisa Chasan-Taber, an internationally recognized expert whose research explores how modifying behavioral risk factors can decrease disease rates in mothers and their offspring, is being recognized as a Spotlight Scholar.

 

Chasan-Taber, who is a professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, led a national research team in 2000 that developed the Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire (PPAQ), the first scientifically validated instrument for determining guidelines for exercise during pregnancy. It has formed the basis for international scientific and medical studies of physical activity and its effects on maternal and fetal outcomes. Currently being translated into several languages, the PPAQ is being used by researchers in 40 countries and at 28 U.S. universities. Each year, Chasan-Taber fields numerous queries by investigators interested in using the PPAQ in their research.