Maryam Kebbe
Associate Professor
PhD
KIN 305
Fredericton
Research interests
- Nutrition and physical activity
- Maternal and infant health
- Breastmilk and microbiome
- Obesity and metabolic diseases
Current teaching
- KIN 3481 Nutrition for Healthy Living
- KIN 4481 Exercise & Sport Nutrition
- KIN 4482 Maternal & Child Health
Biography
Dr. Maryam Kebbe received her BSc in Life Sciences from the University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Ontario), and her PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of Alberta’s Department of Pediatrics (Edmonton, Alberta).
She completed postdoctoral training in the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom) first, followed by the Reproductive Endocrinology & Women's Health Laboratory at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center (Baton Rouge, Louisiana).
Dr. Kebbe is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of New Brunswick. She teaches Nutrition for Healthy Living, Exercise & Sport Nutrition, and Maternal & Child Health.
Dr. Kebbe is a nutrition, behaviour, and pediatric scientist whose work bridges clinical, community, and experimental settings. Her research examines relationships between nutrition, metabolism, and the gut microbiome to address obesity and diabetes across the lifespan, beginning in the earliest stages of life.
Dr. Kebbe aims to design and translate effective, sustainable, and family-centered interventions that promote healthy growth and break the intergenerational cycle of metabolic disease.
Research projects
- Role of prenatal and postnatal factors in the intergenerational transmission of obesity and diabetes
- Strategies for the prevention and management of gestational diabetes mellitus
- Effects of nutrition and physical activity on human milk, the gut microbiome, body composition, and metabolic health in pregnancy and early life
- Sports nutrition
