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Nancy L. Weaver, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health.  She has been active in the areas of injury prevention, physical activity and health communication for the past 15 years and formerly directed the Research Methods and Biostatistics Core of an National Cancer Institute Center of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research.  Currently, Dr. Weaver is an investigator with the Center for Violence and Injury Prevention, a Center of Excellence funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  In this role, she serves as co-director of the education team and principal investigator of a project that delivers tailored communications to parents of young children to promote positive parenting behaviors.  She has lead numerous projects teams in developing, evaluating and implementing health promotion and injury prevention programs.  Her most recent project, Safe n’ Sound, has been translated into Spanish and has been offered in pediatric clinics in four states.  

 Dr. Weaver is also an investigator with Health Literacy Missouri (HLM), a multi-center initiative of the Missouri Foundation for Health.  As part of this initiative, Dr. Weaver serves as Chair of the Evaluation Committee and as a member of the St. Louis Leadership team and the surveillance committee.  More recently, Dr. Weaver is collaborating with the CDC Office of Smoking and Health to address the public health issues related to the marketing of new tobacco products.

 Dr. Weaver has extensive expertise combining qualitative and quantitative methods, developing measurement tools and providing technical and training assistance to public health practitioners.  Her work is largely multidisciplinary and involves partnerships with state and national agencies, community organizations and various academic disciplines.

 Dr. Weaver teaches in the areas of biostatistics, health education, health communication and research methodology.