Beth Widen, PhD, RD
Dr. Elizabeth Widen is a nutritional epidemiologist whose research focuses on effects of prenatal and early life nutritional exposures on short- and long-term maternal and child health
Dr. Widen is a Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at University of Texas at Austin, and is affiliated with the Population Research Center and the Department of Women's Health and Department of Pediatrics at the Dell Medical School. Dr. Widen's research is funded by a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development.
Dr. Widen earned her doctoral degree in Nutrition from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She also completed a minor in Epidemiology at the Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Widen completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center in the Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Training Program in Nutrition and Population Health (T32) and Obesity Research (T32), both funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.