MOVE! Weight Management Program

Dawn Jacobson, MD, MPH Luther L. Terry Senior Fellow, Senior Clinical Advisor Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Office of Public Health and Science US Department of Health and Human Services Dawn Jacobson, MD, MPH is a Board-Certified Preventive Medicine Physician and Pathologist. She graduated from the University of Iowa College of Medicine and completed pathology and preventive medicine residencies at the University of California-San Diego Medical Center. She received her Master of Public Health degree from San Diego State University, where she was named Outstanding Graduate Student in Health Services Administration. Her Masters thesis explored the relationship and cost implications of using an elevated serum total protein level as an indicator of undiagnosed asymptomatic chronic hepatitis and HIV infection. Dr. Jacobson is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha (National Medical Honorary), the American College of Preventive Medicine, the American Public Health Association, and the American Medical Association. She is also a Fellow in the College of American Pathologists and was a junior member of the College of American Pathologists Standards and Instrumentation Resource Committee. While serving as the Ninth Luther Terry Fellow with the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Dawn will lead a project that utilizes dynamic systems thinking as an approach to achieving long-term health outcomes and is overseeing the development of an obesity prevention model. She is also involved with Healthy Border 2010 activities and the midcourse review for Healthy People 2010. Additional prevention policy interests include cancer prevention, comprehensive anti-tobacco programming, community and provider interventions to support active lifestyles, laboratory surveillance activities, and access-to-care issues. She ultimately hopes to pursue a career as a state or local health official in California.