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Elizabeth J. Johnson, PhD (she/her/hers)

professor
Tufts University
Norwood, Massachusetts, United States

Elizabeth J. Johnson, Ph.D. obtained her Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her postdoctoral work was conducted at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Center on Aging at Tufts University where she began clinical studies on research on human metabolism of carotenoids. She currently has a faculty appointment at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University. She has over 30 years of experience in the study of nutrition and healthy aging with an emphasis on carotenoids and age-related visual and cognitive function and has over 100 peer-reviewed publications of which more than sixty are on the topic of carotenoids. She has been a member of the International Carotenoid Society. Other memberships include the American College of Nutrition, Carotenoid Research Interactive Group, American Society for Nutrition, the Brain and Ocular Nutrition Group and the Ocular Wellness & Nutrition Society. Dr. Johnson is the editor-in-chiet of Global Perspectives on Nutrition and on the editorial board for the Journal of Nutrition.

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