Jennifer Garrison

Jennifer Garrison is a Co-Founder and Director of the Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity and Equality (GCRLE) and an Assistant Professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging currently residing in San Fransico. Garrison holds a PhD from the University of California, San Francisco. She holds appointments in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California.

She is a passionate advocate for women’s health and is leading a new movement to advance science that emphasizes female reproductive aging. Her lab studies the role of mind-body communication in systemic aging, and how changes in the conversation between the ovary and brain during aging may lead to the onset of reproductive decline in females.

Dr. Garrison plays an active role in shaping the longevity research space as a member of the Board of Directors for the American Aging Association (AGE), the Scientific Advisory Board for the Alliance for Longevity Initiatives (A4Li), the Medical Advisory Council for the National Menopause Foundation (NMF), as Director of the Biology of Aging Advanced Research Training Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), as a reviewer for the American Federation of Aging Research (AFAR), and as Associate Director of the Buck-USC Biology of Aging PhD program.