Beth Widen 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. At UT Austin, Dr. Widen is also affiliated with the Dell Pediatric Research Institute, and the Departments of Women’s Health and Pediatrics at Dell Medical School, and is a faculty research associate at the Population Research Center. Dr. Widen is an interdisciplinary nutritional epidemiologist and takes a life course approach to nutritional sciences at 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 (conception to 2 years) on short- and long-term health of mothers and their children.