Associate Professor, Departments of Nutrition and Food Studies and Medicine

Jeannette M. Beasley, PhD, RD, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Nutrition and Food Studies and Medicine at New York University. She trained in biology at the College of William and Mary (BS), nutrition at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (MPH, RD) and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (PhD). Her research focuses on understanding the role of nutrition in chronic disease prevention, particularly in furthering the understanding of the role of nutrition in the prevention of cardiometabolic disease in diverse populations and refining recommendations regarding the protein needs of older adults. This work has resulted in over 80 peer-reviewed publications and eight books or book chapters. She has received funding as principal investigator from National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control, and private foundations. She also collaborates as a co-investigator for several extramurally funded projects. She serves as an Associate Editor for BMC Public Health and as a peer reviewer for over twenty other academic journals. She is deeply committed to training the next generation of scholars and teaches research methods, nutrition and aging, and research applications. She previously held academic appointments at Group Health Research Institute, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She also served as a Senior Fellow at Durham University in the United Kingdom and on the faculty for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Certificate in Weight Management training program.

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