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
  • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination and spontaneous abortion
    Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2025
  • Linkage of electronic health record data across two healthcare systems for perinatal health research: a privacy-preserving approach
    Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 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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  • Elisabeth.M.Seburg@HealthPartners.com
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