Dr. Miriam Eisenberg Colman joined Fors Marsh Group in October 2017 as a senior scientist in the Communication Research division. Currently, she works primarily on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Childhood Obesity Focus Groups study and the FDA’s Healthy Claims experimental study.
Before joining FMG, Dr. Eisenberg Colman received her Ph.D. in Applied Social Psychology from The George Washington University and worked for three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In her more than 10 years of research experience, Dr. Eisenberg Colman developed expertise in experimental, survey, and qualitative methods as well as complex statistical analyses using large-scale, nationally representative data sets. Dr. Eisenberg Colman has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, spanning topics such as diet quality, physical activity, obesity, sleep, child and maternal health, diabetes management, unhealthy weight control behaviors, substance use, and mobile and digital health.