Daniel W. Belsky
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD)
Daniel W. Belsky | |
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| Alma mater | Swarthmore College (BA) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD) |
| Known for | Research on aging, geroscience, health disparities, and social genomics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Epidemiology, Aging research, Geroscience, Genomics |
| Institutions | Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Duke University School of Medicine |
| Website | belskylab |
Daniel W. Belsky is an American epidemiologist and researcher in aging, genomics, and population health. He is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Belsky earned his B.A. in psychology from Swarthmore College in 2002. He completed his Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2012. He conducted postdoctoral research in developmental genetic epidemiology and aging research at Duke University Medical Center's Aging Center, working with Terrie E. Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi.[1]
Career
Belsky joined Columbia University in 2018 as an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and became Associate Professor with tenure in 2023.[2] He is also affiliated with the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center.[3] Before moving to Columbia, he was on the faculty at the Duke University School of Medicine, holding appointments in Medicine and Population Health Sciences, and earlier served as a Research Assistant Professor at Duke's Social Science Research Institute.[4]
