Martha (Marti) Y. Kubik, PhD, RN, FAAN

Dr Kubik is a professor in the School of Nursing. She is a behavioral epidemiologist and advanced practice nurse with over 20 years of community-based primary care practice experience as a nurse practitioner. She has a long history of funded research, with a focus on low-income and minority populations. Her research focus spans childhood obesity, adolescent health and health promotion and disease prevention  across the lifespan. Her work advancing the understanding of the school food environment has informed school nutrition policy at national and international levels. She has published over 140 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Kubik is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and served as a member of the US Preventive Services Task Force (2018-2022). She has a BSN from Hampton University, MSN from the University of Pennsylvania and PhD from the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health.

Research

Research Interests

• Childhood obesity

• Adolescent health

• Health promotion and disease prevention  across the lifespan.

Select Publications 

• Kubik MY. Poverty Post Pandemic, Lapsed Public Policy and Rising Rates: A Call to Action for Nursing. OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing. (January 31, 2024).  Vol. 29, No. 1, Manuscript 1. doi: 10.3912/OJIN.Vol29No01Man01

• Tripicchio GL, Kubik MY, Lee J, Fisher JO. More-To-Less Home Healthful Foods Ratio is Associated with Diet Quality in Preadolescents with Elevated Body Mass Index. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. 2022 Jul 29: S1499-4046(22)00341-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jneb.2022.04.212.

• Kubik MY, Maughan ED. The Mental Health of School-Aged Youth: A Call to Action for School Nursing. Journal of School Nursing. 2022 Jul 25:10598405221113312. doi: 10.1177/ 10598405221113312.

• Mangione CM, Barry MJ, Nicholson WK, Cabana M, Coker TR, Davidson KW, Davis EM, Donahue KE, Jaén CR, Kubik M, Li L, Ogedegbe G, Pbert L, Ruiz JM, Silverstein M, Stevermer J, Wong JB. Screening for Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2022 Oct 11;328(14):1438-1444. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.16936

• Davidson KW, Mangione CM, Barry MJ, Nicholson WK, Cabana MD, Caughey AB, Davis EM, Donahue KE, Doubeni CA, Kubik M, Li L, Ogedegbe G, Pbert L, Silverstein M, Stevermer J, Tseng CW, Wong JB. Collaboration and Shared Decision-Making Between Patients and Clinicians in Preventive Health Care Decisions and US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2022 Mar 22;327(12):1171-1176. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.3267.

• Davidson KW, Krist AH, Tseng CW, Simon M, Doubeni CA, Kemper AR, Kubik M, Ngo-Metzger Q, Mills J, Borsky A.  Incorporation of Social Risk in US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations and Identification of Key Challenges for Primary Care. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2021 Sep 1. doi: 10.1001/jama.2021.12833.

• Kubik MY, Lee J, Fulkerson JA, Gurvich OV, Sirard JR. (2021). School-Based Secondary Obesity Prevention for 8- to 12-Year-Olds: Results from the Students, Nurses, and Parents Seeking Healthy Options Together Randomized Trial. Childhood Obesity. 2021;17(3):185-195.

• Davidson KW, Kemper AR, Doubeni CA, Tseng CW, Simon MA, Kubik M, Curry SJ, Mills J, Krist A, Ngo-Metzger Q, Borsky A. (2020). Developing Primary Care-Based Recommendations for Social Determinants of Health: Methods of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Annals of Internal Medicine. Sep 15;173(6):461-467.

• Schroeder K, Kubik MY. (2019). Policy, systems and environmental approaches to a healthy school environment. Journal of Adolescent Health. Aug;65(2):169-170.

• Lee J, Kubik MY, Fulkerson JA. Diet Quality and Fruit, Vegetable and Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption by Household Food Insecurity among 8- to 12-Year-Old Children during Summer Months. (2019).  Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. May 2;S2212-2672(18)31583-1.

Select Honors and Awards

• Fellow in the American Academy of Nurses, 2018

Affiliations

• Member

  American Nurses Association

• Member

  Virginia Nurses Association

Degrees

• PhD, Behavioral Epidemiology, University of Minnesota

• MSN, Nursing, University of Pennsylvania

• BSN, Nursing, Hampton University

• FAAN