Elisabeth M. Seburg, MPH
Manager, Research Project Management Office
About

Elisabeth Seburg, MPH is the Manager of the Research Project Management Office at HealthPartners Institute, where she also serves as Principal Project Manager on several research studies and manages the Pregnancy & Child Health Research Center (PCHRC). She brings extensive experience in research project management, team leadership, and fostering collaborative partnerships across the Institute.

Elisabeth leads a team of research project managers and guides the development of best practices in research implementation, training, and regulatory compliance. At the PCHRC, she manages center operations and leads key initiatives, including the annual research symposium and internship program. In addition to her operational leadership, Elisabeth contributes to research through data analysis, manuscript development, and dissemination of findings to both scientific and community audiences.

Conducting Institute research since: 2012

Research interests include:
Perinatal mental health
Health disparities
Disability policy
Vaccine and medication safety in pregnancy

Education and Training
Master of Public Health, Maternal and Child Health
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Fellowship, Minnesota Leadership Education in Neurodevelopment and Related Disabilities
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 
Certificate Program, Disability Policy and Services, Institute on Community Integration
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, Minor in French and Francophone Studies
Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

Current research activities and funding: 
• Prenatal RSV vaccine OuTcomes Evaluated in infants and lactation (PROTECT study)
• Tdap Vaccination during Pregnancy or Postpartum and Lactation-Related Outcomes
• Maternal COVID-19 Vaccination and Lactation Outcomes (CALM study)
• Managing Our Mood (MOM) Study: Treatment Initiation for New Episodes of Depression in Pregnant Women
• Mental Health Research Network III-Digital Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Perinatal Depression

Publications While At HealthPartners
Highlights
selected publications
Journal Article
  • Assessment of infant growth and health care utilization following tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (Tdap) vaccination during pregnancy and lactation. 
    Vaccine. 2026
  • COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy and postpartum and human milk feeding non-initiation and discontinuation. 
    American Journal of Epidemiology. 2026
  • Comparison of lactation information from electronic health records with survey data across five US health systems. 
    Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.). 2026
  • Language and racial disparities in COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy and lactation. 
    Vaccine. 2026
  • Linkage of electronic health record data across two healthcare systems for perinatal health research: a privacy-preserving approach. 
    Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 2026
  • Comparison of linked EHR-pharmacy data and administrative claims data: medication fills during pregnancy. 
    Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2025
  • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination and spontaneous abortion. 
    Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2025
  • Maternal physical activity and its relationship to the human milk metabolome and infant body composition. 
    Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. 2025
  • Validation of lactational mastitis diagnosis codes in electronic health care data. 
    Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.). 2025
  • Characterisation and validation of lactation information from structured electronic health records for use in pharmacoepidemiological studies. 
    Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 2024
  • Cumulative environmental stress and emerging cardiometabolic risk during childhood. 
    Pediatric Obesity. 2024
  • Do children's health behaviors buffer the impact of cumulative environmental stress on emerging cardiometabolic risk?. 
    Journal of the American Heart Association. 2024
  • Maternal oral probiotic use is associated with decreased breastmilk inflammatory markers, infant fecal microbiome variation, and altered recognition memory responses in infants-a pilot observational study. 
    Frontiers in nutrition. 2024
  • Household income, cortisol, and obesity during early childhood: a prospective longitudinal study. 
    Journal of Pediatrics. 2023
  • Association of childhood abuse with behavioral weight-loss outcomes: Examining the mediating effect of binge eating severity. 
    Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 2022
  • BestFIT Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial results: a SMART approach to developing individualized weight loss treatment sequences. 
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2022
  • Race/ethnicity and age associations with hair cortisol concentrations among children studied longitudinally from early through middle childhood. 
    Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2022
  • Discrepancies between clinician and participant intervention adherence ratings predict percent weight change during a six-month behavioral weight loss intervention. 
    Translational Behavioral Medicine. 2021
  • Using targeting to recruit men and women of color into a behavioral weight loss trial. 
    Trials. 2020
  • The Healthy Homes/Healthy Kids 5-10 Obesity Prevention Trial: 12- and 24-month outcomes. 
    Pediatric Obesity. 2019
  • Parent choice in a pediatric obesity prevention intervention
    2017
  • Predicting dietary intake among children classified as overweight or at risk for overweight: Independent and interactive effects of parenting practices and styles. 
    Appetite. 2017
  • The BestFIT trial: a SMART approach to developing individualized weight loss treatments. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2016
  • Activity patterns of preschool-aged children at risk for obesity. 
    Journal of physical activity & health. 2015
  • Disability and discussions of health-related behaviors between youth and health care providers. 
    Journal of Adolescent Health. 2015
  • Eating behaviors and quality of life in preadolescents at risk for obesity with and without abdominal pain. 
    Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 2015
  • Household factors, family behavior patterns, and adherence to dietary and physical activity guidelines among children at risk for obesity. 
    Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 2015
  • Objectively coding intervention fidelity during a phone-based obesity prevention study
    2015
  • Concern about child weight among parents of children at-risk for obesity
    2014
  • Healthy Homes/Healthy Kids: a randomized trial of a pediatric primary care-based obesity prevention intervention for at-risk 5-10-year-olds. 
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2013
  • Conference Poster
  • The Pap Hub: Minnesota’s first cervical cancer screening coordination system [poster]
    2023
  • Does parental concern about child weight predict change in child BMI percentile among children in an obesity prevention intervention [poster]?
    2016
  • Activity patterns of preschool-aged children at risk for obesity [poster]
    2013
  • Are parental perceptions of child weight related to parental weight-related behaviors? [poster]
    2013
  • Healthy Homes/Healthy Kids 5-10: results from baseline analyses [poster]
    2013
  • Review
  • A review of primary care-based childhood obesity prevention and treatment interventions [review]. 
    Current obesity reports. 2015
  • Recruitment and retention in obesity prevention and treatment trials targeting minority or low-income children: a review of the clinical trials registration database [review]. 
    Trials. 2015
  • Abstract
  • The BestFIT Weight Loss Trial: smart study design and early implementation lessons learned [abstract]. 
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2016
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