Debra Kibbe

Debra Kibbe is an assistant project director at the Georgia Health Policy Center (GHPC). For more than two decades she has been exploring how to prevent and manage childhood obesity and support physical activity and nutrition behaviors in systems serving children, such as schools, health care, communities, worksites, and faith settings.

At GHPC, Kibbe serves as co-principal investigator on the Georgia State Physical Activity and Nutrition initiative, a five-year cooperative agreement funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, focused on policy, systems and environmental change strategies in nutrition, physical activity, breastfeeding, and early care and education obesity prevention. She is a subject matter expert on systems thinking and supports the Veteran’s Health Administration Modeling to Learn, a national initiative that provides resources for frontline mental health care teams to improve local care quality to better serve their community. 

Kibbe also conducts community health needs assessments, supports meeting design, facilitation and strategic planning services, and provides training and technical assistance on topics such as motivational interviewing, sustainability, and health equity. Kibbe was a faculty for 10 years for the American Dietetic Association Commission on Dietetic Registration’s certificate program on childhood and adolescent weight management and was a member of the education subcommittee of the U.S. National Physical Activity Plan that created the Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program framework.