Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Beth Widen is a Registered Dietitian and Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Nutritional Sciences. Widen is a nutritional and perinatal epidemiologist and her research takes a life course approach to the intersection of nutrition, perinatal, and pediatric epidemiology, and human biology. She develops and applies advanced analytic methods and interdisciplinary approaches to rigorously evaluate the role of nutrition during the first 1,000 days on short and long-term health of mothers and their children. Widen holds a BS in Dietetics from Miami University, and a PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the faculty at UT Austin, she completed an interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellowship in the Institute of Human Nutrition, Department of Epidemiology and the New York Obesity Research Center at Columbia University.