Jennifer Bea
Associate Professor, Medicine - (Research Scholar Track) | Associate Professor, Public Health | Member of the Graduate Faculty
About
Jennifer W. Bea, PhD is a physiological scientist, focused on body composition and chronic disease research, with an emphasis on cancer. She is currently Co-director for the Body Composition Research Laboratory, a member of UACC Cancer Prevention and Control, and a member of the Collaboratory for Metabolic Disease Prevention and Treatment at UA. As an expert in body composition imaging, lifestyle interventions, circulating biomarkers, and genetics, Dr. Bea has made significant strides in understanding how to tailor interventions to optimize body composition and health, particularly among underserved communities
Research Area
physical activity, postmenopausal women, women's health, body composition, cancer, bone health, breast cancer, epidemiology, obesity, health disparities, mortality, adipose tissue, nutrition, public health, women's health initiative, aging, cancer risk, body mass index, genetics, navajo, cancer survivors, cancer survivorship, health initiative, bone mineral density, vitamin d, exercise, osteoporosis, heart failure, association, women
Recent
Assessment and Regulation of Human Body Composition
Childhood Obesity