Jennifer Smith
Jennifer Smith, Ph.D., M.P.H., is Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health and Research Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Research, both at the University of Michigan.
Professor Smith is a genetic epidemiologist whose research focuses on the relationships between genomic, epigenomic, and transcriptomic variation and age-related diseases. She works with large, multi-ancestry cohort studies to investigate a broad range of traits, including cardiovascular disease, dementia, cognition, and health behaviors. She is also interested in how social and psychosocial factors interact with the genome and epigenome to shape disease risk, especially for groups that experience socioeconomic and race/ethnic health disparities. Smith collaborates on projects conducted by multiple genomic consortia including Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed), Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE), and the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Program (ADSP).
Smith’s work has been funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the National Institute on Aging. She has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals including Nature Genetics, American Journal of Human Genetics, and Clinical Epigenetics. Smith currently teaches graduate-level courses in public health genetics and genetic epidemiology at the University of Michigan.
You can visit her university webpage here.