Most Recent News (see below for more news)

• I gave a talk last week on the Shuar research ("Tradeoffs between immune function and childhood growth among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists") in the Center for Anatomical Sciences at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. (posted 7/15/2024) 
  

• Congratulations to former UO undergrad Adriana Wisniewski, now a PhD student at UNC, for acceptance of her first first-authored paper: Wisniewski A, DeLouize AM, Walker T, Chatterji S, Naidoo N, Kowal P, Snodgrass JJ. Sustained metabolic dysregulation and the emergence of diabetes: Associations between HbA1c and metabolic syndrome components in Tunisian diabetic and nondiabetic groups. Journal of Physiological Anthropology, in press. (posted 7/3/2024)

• Congratulations to extraordinary undergraduates Nayantara Arora, Micah Warner-Carey, Madeleine Getz, and Kavi Shrestha who graduated yesterday from UO! I feel so lucky to have worked with them--they are what make this the best job in the world! (posted 6/18/2024)

• Jo Weaver and I gave three back-to-back presentations yesterday on the Homelessness and Health project ("Homelessness and health: Investigating structural, social, and behavioral pathways to develop effective interventions") to the UO Board of Trustees. (posted 6/4/2024).
  

• I am honored to have been recognized by the Center for Undergraduate Research and Engagement (CURE) as a recipient of the Faculty Research Mentor Award. The coolest part is that I was nominated by a coalition of 30 students from the Minority Association of Pre-medical Students. (posted 4/31/2024).

• I had the opportunity to be part of the 20th anniversary celebration of Northwestern University's Global Health Studies program and its founding director Bill Leonard. I was asked to give the keynote talk to honor Bill and outline the program's accomplishments (more info here). I had an absolutely wonderful time and it was amazing to celebrate Bill! (5/18/2024).

• Jo Weaver and I gave a presentation this past week to Homes for Good as part of the Homelessness and Health project. The Homes for Good Housing Agency provides permanent supportive housing throughout Lane County. (posted 5/7/2024)

• Last Saturday was the Dia de Salud health fair, an annual free clinic that I run in collaboration with UO MAPS—the Minority Association of Premedical Students (and MAPS lead organizer Anna Burger)—which provides health care access for those in Eugene experiencing barriers. This year it included 25 UO student volunteers and 5 clinical providers. We had >60 patients and all were seen by providers (with access to a Spanish-speaker provider if they chose) and had the opportunity for free follow-up medical appointments through our collaboration with Volunteers in Medicine. And Hannah Cantrell did osteoporosis screening using our new heel ultrasonometer. This is the 12th year of the clinic which I started with former grad student Julia Ridgeway-Diaz (who is now Dr. Julia Ridgeway-Diaz) and Huerto de la Familia back in 2011 (it's the second time in the post-pandemic era that we've held the event). (posted 5/7/2024)

• It was very cool to have participated in the Duke University Population Research Institute's meeting of the Population Ecology, Aging, and Health Network (PEcAHN)--and thanks to Herman Pontzer and Amanda McGrosky for organizing it! Sam Urlacher and I were there to represent the Shuar Health and Life History Project. Here's more info on the workshop. (posted 4/13/2024)
  

About Me
I am a professor and scientist at the University of Oregon with research and teaching focused on human biology and global health. My work sits at the intersection of the natural and social sciences, and its interdisciplinary focus reflects my deep commitment to integration across the anthropological subfields, and between anthropology and other disciplines such as human & comparative physiology, medicine, epidemiology, psychology, nutritional sciences, molecular biology, and ecology & evolutionary biology.

Research. My research addresses topics such as the influence of social and environmental factors on health (including chronic and infectious/parasitic diseases, as well as mental health issues), human adaptation to environmental stressors (e.g., physiological adaptation to cold stress), aging in global context, biomarkers of physiology and health obtained using minimally invasive techniques, and the evolution of the human diet. I've been honored nationally for my research, including being elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013.

Here's a link to my publications and to my Google Scholar Profile

Teaching and Mentoring. I teach a variety of courses in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Health program, including Human Growth and Development (ANTH 369), Evolutionary Medicine (ANTH 175), and Emerging Infectious Diseases and Pandemics (ANTH 410/510), as well as the the Health Sciences Academic Residential Community (ARC) (UGST 112). I have also recently started teaching an upper division and graduate seminar class called Healthy Aging, though the full title is How Evolutionary Medicine Can Help Us Live a Long, Healthy, and Meaningful Life (ANTH 410/510).

I have been honored for my teaching and mentoring, including being named the UO Williams Fellow in 2012 in recognition of distinguished undergraduate teaching, receiving a NACADA national faculty advisor award in 2015, and being honored by UO with a Faculty Research Mentor Award in 2024. I was one of the founders and on the original Advisory Board of the Provost's Teaching Academy, which is one of the main drivers of UO's teaching culture. For more info on my teaching, check out my Teaching Academy Profile. Also, I regularly share teaching materials with educators including lecture materials, discussion activities, and research assignments--just drop me a line.

I have mentored numerous graduate students who have achieved career success and are now shaping the field of Anthropology. As part of this, I have established a strong track record of training students from underrepresented backgrounds.

Read more about my Teaching, Mentoring, and Campus Leadership

Service, Leadership, and Community Engagement. I am very active in campus and professional leadership (including serving as UO's Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Research and Distinguished Scholarships [2016-2020] & Vice President of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists [2016-2018]). I recently served on the Editorial Committee of Annual Review of Anthropology (2019-2023) and as the President of the Human Biology Association (2022-2024). I was one of the founders of Oregon's Corona Corps, which provided contact tracing and support to Lane County and the State of Oregon. And, I was co-organizer (with Siobhain McGuinness) of the 2017 March for Science in New Orleans; the event was estimated to have had ~7000 attendees.  

Much of my research and teaching addresses social determinants of health and I am committed personally and professionally to reducing global inequities. I am also deeply invested in the health and well-being of my community and state, partnering with a variety of local organizations (e.g., Huerto de la Familia, Black Thistle Street Aid, and HIV Alliance) to increase health care access.

Read more about my Teaching, Mentoring, and Campus Leadership

Links to Information on Publications, Lab, Research, and Teaching
Publications
Global Health Biomarker Lab
Teaching, Mentoring, and Leadership
Shuar Health and Life History Project

Primary Academic Appointment
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon (Full Professor since 2016; at UO since 2005)

Secondary Academic Appointment
Invited Faculty, Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity, Hokkaido University, Japan (2021-2026)

Selected Leadership Positions at UO
Co-Director, Center for Global Health, University of Oregon (2016-)
Core Faculty, Global Health Minor Program, University of Oregon (2017-)
Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Research and Distinguished Scholarships, University of Oregon (2016-2020)
Director, Office of Distinguished Scholarships, University of Oregon (2016-2020)
Co-Chair, Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Oregon (2015-2020)
Founder & Director, Center for Undergraduate Research and Engagement (CURE), University of Oregon (2017-2019)
Interim Director, McNair Scholars Program, University of Oregon (2017)
Chair, Undergraduate Council, University Senate, University of Oregon (2012-2014)
Director, Global Health Biomarker Lab, University of Oregon (2007-2023)

Areas of Specialization
Human Biology; Human Nutrition & Energetics; Evolutionary Medicine; Global Health; Epidemiology; Mental Health; Growth & Development; Aging; Biomarkers of Physiology and Health; Human Skeletal Biology

Education
NIA Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Mind and Biology, The University of Chicago (2004-2005)
Ph.D., Anthropology, Northwestern University (2004)
M.A., Anthropology, University of Florida (1998)
B.A., Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz (1995)

Selected Awards
Outstanding Faculty Advising Award (Certificate of Merit Recipient), National Academic Advising Association,
   2015 (coverage by Around the O)
University of Oregon Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, 2014 (coverage by Around the O)
Human Biology Association's Michael A. Little Early Career Award, 2013
Elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2013
Scientist to Watch in August issue of The Scientist magazine, 2013 (see profile and UO coverage)
University of Oregon Williams Fellow for distinguished undergraduate teaching, 2012
University of Oregon Faculty Excellence Award in recognition of outstanding research and leadership, 2012
PeaceHealth/Sacred Heart Medical Foundation Clinical Research Recognition Award, 2011

Courses I Regularly Teach
Anth 175: Evolutionary Medicine (Syllabus) (next taught: Fall 2023)
Anth 369: Human Growth & Development (Syllabus) (next taught: Winter 2024)

Anth 410/510: Emerging Infectious Diseases & Pandemics (Syllabus) (next taught: Fall 2025)
Anth 410/510: Healthy Aging (next taught Fall 2024)
UGST 109: Paging Dr. Darwin (Freshman Interest Group College Connections Course) (Syllabus) (next taught: TBA)
UGST 112: Health Sciences Academic Residential Community (ARC) seminar (next taught: Fall 2023)

Research Interests, Publications, and External Grant Support
My research focuses on human health and adaptation and sits at the intersection of human physiology, evolutionary biology, nutritional sciences, epidemiology, and the behavioral sciences.

My research centers around the following five topics:
1) The influence of social and environmental factors on health (including chronic and infectious/parasitic diseases, as well as mental health issues)
2) Human adaptation to environmental stressors (including physiological adaptation to cold stress and immune responses to parasites)
3) Global patterns of aging and their determinants
4) Methods development of biomarkers of physiology and health obtained using minimally invasive techniques
5) The evolution of the human diet

I have published in a wide range of outlets, including American Journal of Human Biology, The Lancet, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychoneuroendocrinology, American Journal of Epidemiology, and The New York Times (see my list of publications and my Google Scholar Profile).

My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health (including the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse), the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, the Forensic Science Foundation, and the World Health Organization.

My research has been covered by a variety of media outlets, including The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Science, Good Morning America, Discovery News, and Oregon Live.

Collaborative Human Biology Field Research
I am part of several large collaborative research teams and am involved in field research projects in northeastern Siberia (Indigenous Siberian Health and Adaptation Project; currently on hold because of the war in Ukraine), the Amazon region of Ecuador (The Shuar Health and Life History Project), and several locations within Oregon.


Collaborations with the WHO
Since 2005, I have worked closely with the  World Health Organization, initially with the multi-country Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE), a longitudinal study of health and well-being in older adults that focuses on nationally representative samples in six countries (China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russia, and South Africa). My work on SAGE continues as we regularly publish epidemiological findings and use data to address important topics in human biology.

From 2015-2016, I helped organize and train data collectors for the Tunisian Health Examination Survey, a collaborative national health survey of >9000 people that was run by the Republic of Tunisia and WHO. One major innovation of the study was the use of point-of-care devices to assess health, including measurement of HbA1c, lipids, glucose, and hemoglobin; my lab provided training to the data collectors and supported implementation of the survey. We continue to publish from this unique dataset.

And in 2021 my lab began involvement in the design and launch of the WHO's World Health Survey Plus (WHS+), with contracts from WHO on the design and implementation. Our work involves design of written and video protocols for point-of-care devices, anthropometrics, functional measures, and blood pressure measurement. WHS+ launched in Cambodia in February 2023 and will launch in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Ghana in the summer of 2023.

Global Health Biomarker Lab & The Biomarker Cluster
I direct the Global Health Biomarker Lab, an immunology/endocrinology research lab located in Pacific Hall 12 that focuses on the development and application of minimally invasive techniques for assessing health and physiology in population-based research. We have been involved in long-term research projects in the US and Ecuador, and we have provided training and technical support for projects in the US (including in Oregon and Puerto Rico), Russia/Siberia, Laos, Tunisia, UAE, Cameroon, Tanzania, Kenya, Republic of Congo, and the SAGE countries (China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russia, and South Africa). The lab specializes in the development of dried blood spot (DBS) techniques and the application of minimally invasive biomarkers (DBS, saliva, urine, feces, and hair) to global health questions.

The lab has worked closely with Dr. Zachary DuBois since his arrival at UO in 2017 and collaborates closely with his STAR (Stress, Adaptation, and Resilience) Lab. In 2022 the lab combined forces with UO Center for Translational Neuroscience Research Professor Dr. Birdie Shirtcliff to form the Biomarker Cluster, which is the umbrella organizational structure that includes the Global Health Biomarker Lab, the Shirtcliff's SPIT (Stress Physiology Investigative Team) Lab, and DuBois' STAR Lab.

Recent and Recent-ish News

• After two years as President of the Human Biology Association, I am excited to have rotated off and to have handed over the reins to Rick Bribiescas. It's been an amazing time of growth in HBA and I've loved working with our amazing executive committee! (posted 3/29/2024)

• We are thrilled to have had a paper on diurnal cortisol patterns among the Shuar accepted for publication int he American Journal of Human Biology. The work was led by Melissa Liebert. Here's the full citation and link to the paper: Liebert MA, Urlacher SS, Madimenos FC, Gildner TE, Cepon-Robins TJ, Harrington CJ, Bribiescas RG, Sugiyama LS, and Snodgrass JJ. Variation in diurnal cortisol patterns among the indigenous Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador. American Journal of Human Biology, in press. (posted 3/29/2024) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.24056

• Jo Weaver was featured on KGW8 talking about our research on homelessness and health. Here's the link: https://www.kgw.com/article/life/study-health-effects-homelessness-oregon/283-73cfb490-a95b-4f76-bd6e-d29be613787c. (posted 3/29/2024)

• Undergraduate Avi Locke (Anthropology and MSci majors and Global Health and Arabic Studies minors) received the Hui Scholarship (Hui Undergraduate Research Scholars) from the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program and the VPRI. The program, which provides $15,000 and professional development opportunities, supports students from historically marginalized communities to engage in research in STEM fields. They will be working primarily with me over the next year but also continuing their work with Zachary DuBois and the STAR Lab. (posted 3/29/2024)

• I filmed a video a few weeks ago that together with poetry professor Barbara Mossberg introduces the Undergraduate Research Symposium’s Keynote Speaker—this year the speaker is Adie Fecker, a 3rd year med student at OHSU who is also a published poet. Adie and I worked together when she was an undergrad (she was president of the student group ASURE) to encourage more students from the humanities to submit their work to the symposium. The Keynote Reception is Thursday, May 23 from 12:15-1:15 in the EMU. (posted 3/29/2024)

• Huge congratulations to Nayantara Arora who was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. Nayantara will pursue two master's degrees at Oxford--one in modeling for global health and the other in international health and tropical medicine. Nayantara is the first UO Rhodes Scholar since 2007. More info can be found here. (posted 1/9/2024)

• Hannah Cantrell gave a virtual talk (“Kidney Function and Inflammation Biomarkers in the Amazonian Indigenous Shuar of Ecuador”) late last year as part of the Early Career Researcher session at the annual Hokkaido University Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity (GSI) Symposium. In addition to me, coauthors include Madeleine Getz, Melissa Liebert, Tara Cepon-Robins, Theresa Gildner, Felicia Madimenos, Tyler Barrett, Theresa Gildner, Sam Urlacher, and Larry Sugiyama. (posted 1/9/2024)

• Our team, led by Jo Weaver, Zachary DuBois, and Mackenzie VanLaar & the Black Thistle Street Aid team, were recently awarded an NSF grant for our project "Homelessness and health: Integrating structural, social, and behavioral pathways". The project launched this summer and will run through 2026. (posted 8/5/2023)

• Our paper on lassitude that was published in Evolution and Human Behavior in 2020 ("Lassitude: The emotion of being sick", led by Josh Schrock and with co-author Larry Sugiyama) recently won the Don Symons Adaptationism Award from the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. (posted 7/26/2023)

• Congratulations to the Global Health Biomarker Lab undergraduates who graduated today--Hanna Nguyen, Ava Hearn, Rosa Taylor, and Zag McDowell!! (posted 6/19/2023)
  

• Congratulations to amazing undergrads from the Global Health Biomarker Lab (Rosa Taylor, Hanna Nguyen, Nayantara Arora, Micah Warner-Carey, Madeleine Getz, Abiel Locke, Zag McDowell, and Ava Hearn) who presented at the UO's Undergraduate Research Symposium and at the annual meetings of the Human Biology Association and American Association of Biological Anthropologists. And Zag and Nayantara won awards from HBA and AABA, respectively! You all are awesome!! (posted 6/2/2023)

• Congratulations to amazing undergraduate Nayantara Arora who was selected for Phi Beta Kappa's Key into Public Service Scholarship. I'm so excited for her and can't think of a more deserving winner!! Here's the PBK writeup: https://pbk.org/Nayantara-Arora (posted 5/31/2023).
  

• Congratulations to Ava Hearn who successfully defended her Clark Honors College thesis ("How we break: The effect of allostatic load on cognitive decline in Mexico"). So exciting to see the conclusion of this awesome project! (posted 5/27/2023)

• So excited to see the publication of the special issue of American Journal of Human Biology focused on minimally invasive biomarkers in human population biology research. I guest edited the issue and contributed an introduction that summarizes the papers and comments on the state of the field. I am a coauthor on contributions led by Tyler Barrett ("Age-related patterns of cytomegalovirus antibodies accompanying Epstein-Barr virus co-infection"), Holly Horan ("Maternal hair cortisol concentrations across pregnancy and the early postpartum period in a Puerto Rican sample"), Maureen Devlin ("The utility of dried blood spot measurement of bone turnover markers in biological anthropology"), Alicia DeLouize ("Current and future applications of biomarkers in samples collected through minimally invasive methods for cancer medicine and population-based research"), Theresa Gildner ("After Theranos: Using point-of-care testing to advance measures of health biomarkers in human biology research"), and Felicia Madimenos ("Bringing the lab bench to the field: Point-of-care testing for enhancing health research and stakeholder engagement in rural/remote, indigenous, and resource-limited contexts"). This is years in the making! Here's the link to the issue: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15206300/2022/34/11. (posted 11/8/2022)
  

• The Human Biology Association (HBA) had a very cool write-up in the journal Nature by international HBA member Rana Dajani, who described our efforts to improve accessibility by subsidizing low-income scientists' conference travel and fees. The article also details our student networking efforts led by the Community-Building and Networking Program and our plans for a 2024 HBA place-based conference session focused on the Middle East and conducted in Arabic. (posted 9/25/2022)
  

• We hosted the 15th International Congress of Physiological Anthropology meeting (link) in Eugene from September 15-18, welcoming in-person and virtual participants from around the world (including the US, Japan, Singapore, Korea, Turkey, and the UK) for talks, posters, discussions, and workshops. A huge thanks to conference co-chair Alicia DeLouize and the undergraduates and grad students on the Local Arrangements Committee who helped me host this successful meeting. (posted 9/19/2022)

• A highlight of the ICPA 2022 Eugene conference was the Young Investigator session, which included excellent talks by PhD students Alicia DeLouize ("Energetic constraints or cellular hyperactivity as the ultimate cause of aging: Insights from the Tunisian Health Examination Survey") and Tian Walker ("Diabetes treatment and chronic inflammation in older adults: Findings from the Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)"), recent graduate Adriana Wisniewski ("The prevalence of metabolic syndrome components and their association with HbA1c in Tunisia"), and undergraduate Madeleine Getz ("Care, culture, and bioethics: Community engagement best practices in population-based global health research"). So proud of them for outstanding science and impressive talks! (posted 9/19/2022)

• Congratulations to Global Health Biomarker Lab recent graduate Georgia Greenblum who led our publication effort of SAGE research on anemia and socioeconomic status ("Anemia and socioeconomic status among older adults in the Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)") in the Journal of Public Health and Emergency. Nice job Georgia! (posted 8/5/2022)

• Congratulations to Global Health Biomarker Lab undergraduate Adriana Wisniewski who graduated as one of the Oregon 6 (the top six students in the entire UO graduating class) and as valedictorian of the Multidisciplinary Sciences major; she also gave the valedictory to the graduating class. Congratulations Adriana! (posted 6/20/2022)

• Congratulations to Global Health Biomarker Lab undergraduate Georgia Greenblum who graduated as an Anthropology major from UO last week. Georgia wrote an outstanding thesis for the Clark Honors College and won the Undergraduate Paper of the Year award from the Department of Anthropology for her paper "Anemia and Socioeconomic Status among Older Adults in the Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)". PhD student Alicia DeLouize provided incredible mentoring to Georgia throughout the entire research process. Congratulations Georgia and thank you Alicia! (posted 6/20/2022)

• Congratulations to Corona Corps undergraduate Hannah Small who graduated last week from UO after defending an outstanding thesis for the Clark Honors College. Hannah worked as part of Corona Corps since 2020 and did outstanding research looking at the response to Covid in 2020 by UO and other Pac-12 schools ("Development and Implementation of COVID-19 Containment Methods at the University of Oregon and within the PAC-12"). Congratulations Hannah! (posted 6/20/2022)

• Congratulations to Corona Corps undergraduate Marlee Odell who graduated last week from UO after defending an outstanding thesis for the Clark Honors College. Marlee worked as part of Corona Corps since 2020 and did outstanding research on quarantine hesitancy in Lane County, Oregon ("Defining and Characterizing COVID-19 Quarantine Hesitancy in Lane County"). Congratulations Marlee! (posted 6/20/2022)

• Congratulations to stellar undergraduates from the Global Health Biomarker Lab for their presentations at UO's annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. The team includes Georgia Greenblum ("Anemia and socioeconomic status among older adults in the Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)"), Adriana Wisniewski ("The prevalence of metabolic syndrome components and their association with HbA1c in Tunisia"), Ava Hearn ("The benefits of grandparent support on postpartum depression in Tunisia"), Makenzie Litty ("The effects of physical violence on women’s mental health in Tunisia"), Zag McDowell ("Caregiving and depression: Moderating effects of social cohesion among SAGE individuals"), Audrey Chandler and Madison Acosta ("Accessibility of reproductive and maternal healthcare among female identifying in Tunisia"), and a team of students led by Madeleine Getz (with Micah Warner-Carey, Rosa Taylor, Ava Hearn, and Adriana Wisniewski; "Global biomarker implementation in the WHO’s World Health Survey"). Also, a big thanks to PhD students Alicia DeLouize and Tian Walker for assistance mentoring the undergraduates! (posted 6/20/2022)

• Local NPR affiliate KLCC did a short piece about the $1 million award we received from the Oregon Health Authority to expand Corona Corps, which to date has employed over 200 students to assist Lane County Public Health with the Covid response, to the Oregon Public Health Corps, which expands the mission beyond Covid and aims to modernize the Oregon public health workforce (posted 1/26/2022)

• I gave a talk this weekend on my research as part of the Human Ecology and Global Health research unit section of the Hokkaido University Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity (GSI) virtual Kick-Off Symposium.  I'm excited and honored to be part of this initiative! (posted 1/23/2022)

• Holly Horan from the University of Alabama (here's more about Holly) led a team of researchers on a study (Maternal hair cortisol concentrations across pregnancy and the early postpartum period in a Puerto Rican sample) that we recently published in the American Journal of Human Biology. Here's a link to the paper (posted 1/14/2022)

• Alicia DeLouize and I are leading a collaborative effort with the World Health Organization to launch the World Health Survey Plus (WHS+) and the WHO Island States Health Examination Survey Plus (WISHES+). 2022 will see the launch of these studies in Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Ghana, and Rwanda (posted 1/14/2022)

• Former UO undergraduate Tyler Barrett, now a graduate student at Duke University (here's more about Tyler), led a team of researchers in publication of an article in the American Journal of Human Biology on immune function and aging (Age-related patterns of cytomegalovirus antibodies accompanying Epstein-Barr virus co-infection) based on lab analyses from the Shuar Health and Life History project. Here's a link to the paper (posted 12/16/2021)

• I gave two talks at North Marion High School (Aurora, OR) in late November, discussing my career path to the Future Business Leaders of America, and giving a guest lecture on my global health research to a Business and Law class. Thanks Norma, Gage, and Ms. Ioane for the invitation! (posted 12/5/2021)

• My PhD student Alicia DeLouize and I are leading the effort to integrate point-of-care devices into the WHO's soon to be launched World Health Survey Plus (WHS+). The survey will initially be deployed in Southeast Asia and East Africa starting in late 2021 and will continue to roll out for several years. (posted 8/24/21)  
  

• I am guest editing a second special issue of the American Journal of Human Biology that focuses on the use of minimally invasive biomarkers in human population biology research. The issue will come out in 2022 and include contributions led by: Alicia DeLouize (that paper, on cancer biomarkers, is already available), Theresa Gildner, Felicia Madimenos, Sam Urlacher, Aaron Blackwell, Jason DeCaro, Melissa Liebert, Maureen Devlin, Larry Sugiyama, and Shahrina Chowdhury. The first special issue was published in early 2021. I also have a co-authored paper slated for the second special issue: "What a drop can really do: Renewed investment in methods development of biomarkers from dried blood spots" (posted 8/24/21)

• I was a guest last week on Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn's wonderful podcast The Sausage of Science. Because we were so chatty--talking about my research, the future of the Human Biology Association, adverse childhood experiences, teaching, and the public health response to COVID--the podcast is being released in two parts. Here is a link to Part 1. (posted 4/27/21)

• I gave a talk today ("Measuring health biomarkers in population-based research using point-of-care testing: Possibilities and practical considerations") and participated in a panel discussion as part of the WHO's World Health Survey Plus (WHS+) Virtual Expert Consultation meeting. It was a two-part presentation with Eileen Crimmins (from USC)--with her talking about the power of biomarkers in social science research and me talking about the technical and ethical sides of their use, with a focus on point-of-care testing. (posted 4/14/21)

Recent Publications (Publication Archive) (Google Scholar Link)

• Snodgrass. 2022. Minimally invasive biomarkers in human population biology research, Part 2: An introduction to the special issue. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)
  

• Madimenos FC, Gildner TE, Eick GN, Sugiyama LS, and Snodgrass JJ. 2022. Bringing the lab bench to the field: Point-of-care testing for enhancing health research and stakeholder engagement in rural/remote, Indigenous, and resource-limited contexts. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)
  

• Devlin MJ, Eick G, and Snodgrass JJ. 2022. The utility of dried blood spot measurement of bone turnover markers in biological anthropology. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)
  

• Greenblum G, DeLouize A, Kowal P, and Snodgrass JJ. 2022. Anemia and socioeconomic status among older adults in the Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE). Journal of Public Health and Emergency. (link to paper).
  

• Hickmott AJ, Boose KJ, Wakefield ML, Brand CM, Snodgrass JJ, Ting N, and White FJ. 2022. A comparison of faecal glucocorticoid metabolite concentration and gut microbiota diversity in bonobos (Pan paniscus). Microbiology. (link to paper).
  

• Schrock JM, Sugiyama LS, Naidoo N, Kowal P, and Snodgrass JJ. 2022. Greater chronic morbidity is associated with greater fatigue in six countries: A case of evolutionary mismatch? Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. (link to paper).
  

• Jankovic-Rankovic J, Oka RC, Meyer JS, Snodgrass JJ, Eick GN, and Gettler LT. 2022. Transient refugees’ social support, mental health, and physiological markers: Evidence from Serbian asylum centers. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper).

• Horan H, Cheyney M, Gomez Torres E, Eick G, Bovbjerg M, and Snodgrass JJ. 2022. Maternal hair cortisol concentrations across pregnancy and the early postpartum period in a Puerto Rican sample. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)
  

• Barrett TM, Liebert MA, Eick GN, Ridgeway-Diaz JG, Madimenos FC, Blackwell AD, Urlacher SS, Sugiyama LS, and Snodgrass JJ. 2022. Age-related patterns of cytomegalovirus antibodies accompanying Epstein-Barr Virus co-infection. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)
  

• Gildner TE, Eick GN, Schneider AL, Madimenos FC, and Snodgrass JJ. 2022. After Theranos: Using point-of-care testing to advance measures of health biomarkers in human biology research. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)
  

• DeLouize AM, Eick G, Karam SD, and Snodgrass JJ. 2022. Current and future applications of biomarkers in samples collected through minimally invasive methods for cancer medicine and population-based research. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)

• Schrock JM, Sugiyama LS, and Snodgrass JJ. 2022. Lassitude: A coordination system to support host immunity. In: The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions, in press.

• DeLouize AM, Liebert MA, Madimenos FC, Urlacher SS, Schrock JM, Cepon-Robins TJ, Gildner TE, Blackwell AD, Harrington CJ, Amir D, Snodgrass JJ, and Sugiyama LS. 2022. Low prevalence of anemia among Indigenous Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)

• Choi J, Kim HK, Capaldi DM, and Snodgrass JJ. 2021. Long-term effects of father involvement in childhood on their son’s physiological stress regulation system in adulthood. Developmental Psychobiology. (link to paper)
  

• Cepon-Robins TJ, Blackwell AD, Gildner TE, Liebert MA, Urlacher SS, Madimenos FC, Eick GN, Snodgrass JJ, and Sugiyama LS. 2021. Pathogen disgust sensitivity protects against infections in a high pathogen environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (link to paper)
  

• Muruthi JR, Spafford SG, Osa ML, DeLouize AM, Kowal P, Biritwum R, and Snodgrass JJ. 2022. Suicidal ideation in older Ghanaian women: The roles of bodily pain, functional limitation, and chronic health conditions. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. (link to paper)
  

• Shattuck-Heidorn H, Eick GN, Kramer KL, Sugiyama LS, Snodgrass JJ, and Ellison PT. 2021. Variability of C-reactive protein in a first-generation Ecuadorian immigrant population living in the US. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)
  

• Urlacher SS, Snodgrass JJ, Dugas LR, Madimenos FC, Sugiyama LS, Liebert MA, Joyce CJ, Teran E, and Pontzer, H. 2021. Childhood daily energy expenditure does not decrease with market integration and is not related to adiposity in Amazonia. Journal of Nutrition. (link to paper)
  

• Gildner TE, Cepon-Robins TJ, Liebert MA, Urlacher SS, Schrock JM, Harrington CJ, Madimenos FC, Snodgrass JJ, and Sugiyama LS. 2020. Associations between market integration and soil-transmitted helminth infection among the Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador. PLOS One. (link to paper)
  

• Eick GN, Cepon-Robins TJ, Devlin MJ, Kowal P, Sugiyama LS, and Snodgrass JJ. 2020. Development and validation of an ELISA assay for a biomarker of thyroid dysfunction, thyroid peroxidase autoantibodies (TPO-Ab), in dried blood spots. Journal of Physiological Anthropology. (link to paper)
  

• Dona AC, DeLouize AM, Eick G, Thiele E, Salinas Rodriguez A, Manrique Espinoza BS, Robledo R, Villalpando S, Naidoo N, Chatterji S, Kowal P, and Snodgrass JJ. 2020. Inflammation and central adiposity as mediators of depression and uncontrolled diabetes in the Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE). American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)

• Gettler LT, Lin DTS, Lew-Levy S, Eick GN, Snodgrass JJ, MacIsaac JL, Ramadori KE, Kobor MS, and Boyette AH. 2020. Epigenetic aging in children from a small-scale farming society in the Congo Basin: Associations with child growth and family conflict. Developmental Psychobiology. (link to paper)

• Eick GN, Madimenos FC, Devlin MJ, Cepon-Robins TJ, Kowal P, Sugiyama LS, and Snodgrass JJ. 2020. Validation of an ELISA assay for osteocalcin, a marker of bone formation, in dried blood spots. American Journal of Human Biology (link to paper).

• Madimenos FC, Liebert MA, Cepon-Robins TJ, Urlacher SS, Snodgrass JJ, Sugiyama LS, and Stieglitz J. 2020. Disparities in bone density across contemporary Amazonian forager-horticulturalists: Cross-population comparison of the Tsimane and Shuar. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. (link to paper)

• Schrock JM, Snodgrass JJ, and Sugiyama LS. 2020. Lassitude: The emotion of being sick. Evolution and Human Behavior. (link to paper)

• Urlacher SS, Snodgrass JJ, Dugas LR, Sugiyama LS, Liebert MA, Joyce CJ, and Pontzer H. 2019. Constraint and trade-offs regulate energy expenditure during childhood. Science Advances.

• Wallace IJ, Felson DT, Worthington S, Duryea J, Clancy M, Aliabadi P, Eick GN, Snodgrass JJ, Baggish AL, and Lieberman DE. 2019. Knee osteoarthritis risk in non-industrial societies undergoing an energy balance transition: Evidence from the Tarahumara of Mexico. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

• Amir D, Jordan MR, McAuliffe KM, Valeggia CR, Sugiyama LS, Bribiescas RG, Snodgrass JJ, and Dunham Y. 2019. The developmental origins of risk and time preferences across diverse societies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

• Cepon-Robins TJ, Gildner TE, Schrock JM, Eick G, Bedbury A, Liebert MA, Urlacher SS, Madimenos FC, Harrington CJ, Amir D, Bribiescas RG, Sugiyama LS, and Snodgrass JJ. 2019. Soil-transmitted helminth infection and intestinal inflammation among the Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

• Capistrant BD, Charlton K, Snodgrass JJ, and Kowal P. 2019. Do determinants of hypertension status vary between Ghana and South Africa? Evidence from the Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE). SA Heart (Journal of the South African Heart Association).

• Eick GN, Devlin MJ, Cepon-Robins TJ, Kowal P, Sugiyama LS, and Snodgrass JJ. 2019. A Dried Blood Spot-Based Method to Measure Levels of Tartrate-Resistant Acid Phosphatase 5b (TRACP-5b), A Marker of Bone Resorption. American Journal of Human Biology.

• Christopher L, Madimenos FC, Bribiescas R, Urlacher SS, Snodgrass JJ, Sugiyama LS, and Pontzer H. 2019. High energy requirements and water throughput of adult Shuar forager-horticulturalists of Amazonian Ecuador. American Journal of Human Biology.

• Ablow Measelle E, McClure HH, Snodgrass JJ, Martinez, CR, Jimenez R, and Isiordia L. 2019. Climbing the ladder of decline: Income and acculturation associated with chronic inflammation among Mexican immigrants. American Journal of Human Biology.

Selected Publications (Publication Archive)

• Urlacher SS, Ellison PT, Sugiyama LS, Pontzer H, Eick G, Liebert MA, Cepon-Robins T, Gildner TE, and Snodgrass JJ. 2018. Tradeoffs between immune function and childhood growth among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists. PNAS.

• Stagaman K, Cepon-Robins TJ, Liebert MA, Gildner TE, Urlacher SS, Madimenos FC, Guillemin K, Snodgrass JJ, Sugiyama LS, and Bohannan BJM. 2018. Market Integration Predicts Human Gut Microbiome Attributes across a Gradient of Economic Development. mSystems.

• Boose K, White F, Brand A, Meinelt A, and Snodgrass JJ. 2018. Infant handling in bonobos (Pan paniscus): Exploring functional hypotheses and the relationship to oxytocin. Physiology & Behavior.

• Eick GN, Kowal P, Barrett T, Thiele EA, and Snodgrass JJ. 2017. Enzyme-linked immunoassay-based quantitative measurement of apolipoprotein-B (ApoB) in dried blood spots, a biomarker of cardiovascular disease risk. Biodemog Social Bio 63: 116-130.

• Blackwell AD, Trumble BC, Suarez IM, Stieglitz J, Beheim B, Snodgrass JJ, Kaplan H, and Gurven M. 2016. Immune function in Amazonian horticulturalists. Ann Hum Biol 43: 382-396.

• Eick G, Urlacher SS, McDade TW, Kowal P, and Snodgrass JJ. 2016. Validation of an optimized ELISA for quantitative assessment of Epstein-Barr virus antibodies from dried blood spots. Biodemog Social Bio 62: 222-233.

• Urlacher SS, Liebert MA, Snodgrass JJ, Blackwell AD, Cepon-Robins TJ, Gildner TE, Madimenos FC, Amir D, Bribiescas RG, and Sugiyama LS. 2016. Heterogeneous effects of market integration on subadult growth and nutritional status among the Amazonian Shuar. Ann Hum Biol 43: 316-329.

• Kim HK, Tiberio SS, Capaldi DM, Shortt JW., Squires EC, and Snodgrass JJ. 2015. Intimate partner violence and diurnal cortisol patterns in couples. Psychoneuroendocrinology 51: 35-46.

• Kowal P, Arokiasamy P, Afshar S, Pati S, and Snodgrass JJ. 2015. Multimorbidity: Health care that counts past one for 1.2 billion older adults. Lancet 385: 2252-2253.

• Valeggia CR, Snodgrass JJ. 2015. Health of indigenous peoples. Annu Rev Anthropol 44: 117-135.

• Wu F, Guo Y, Chatterji S, Zheng Y, Naidoo N, Jiang Y, Biritwum R, Yawson A, Minicuci N, Rodriguez A, Espinoza B, Maximova T, Peltzer K, Phaswanamafuya N, Snodgrass JJ, Thiele E, Ng N, and Kowal P. 2015. Common risk factors for chronic non-communicable diseases among older adults in China, Ghana, Mexico, India, Russia and South Africa: The Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) Wave 1. BMC Public Health 15: 88.

• Scott IM, Clark AP, Josephson SC, Boyette A, Cuthill I, Fried R, Gibson M, Hewlett B, Jamieson M, Jankowiak W, Honey PL, Huang Z, Liebert MA, Purzycki BG, Shaver J, Snodgrass JJ, Sosis R, Sugiyama LS, Swami V, Yu DW, Zhao Y, and Penton-Voak IS. 2014. Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel. PNAS 111: 14388-14393.

• Peltzer K, Williams JS, Kowal P, Negin J, Snodgrass JJ, Yawson AE, Minicuci N, Thiele EA, Phaswana-Mafuya N, Biritwum R, and Chatterji, S. 2014. Universal health coverage in emerging economies: Findings on health care utilization by older adults in China, Ghana, India, Mexico, the Russian Federation and South Africa. Glob Health Act 7: 25314.

• Leonard WR, Levy SB, Tarskaia LA, Klimova TM, Fedorova VI, Baltakhinova ME, Krivoshapkin VG, and Snodgrass JJ. 2014. Seasonal variation in basal metabolic rates among the Yakut (Sakha) of northeastern Siberia. Am J Hum Biol 26: 437-445.

• Liebert MA, Snodgrass JJ, Blackwell AD, Madimenos FC, Cepon TJ, and Sugiyama LS. 2013. Implications of market integration for cardiovascular and metabolic health among an indigenous Amazonian Ecuadorian population. Ann Hum Biol 40: 228-242.

• Snodgrass JJ. 2013. Health of indigenous circumpolar populations. Annu Rev Anthropol 42: 69-87.

• Snodgrass JJ. 2012. Human energetics. In: Stinson et al. (eds.) Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Approach (2nd Edition). New York: Wiley, pp. 327-386.

• Kowal P, Chatterji S, Naidoo N, Biritwum R, Wu F, Lopez Ridaura R, Maximova T, Arokiasamy P, Phaswana-Mafuya N, Williams SR, Snodgrass JJ, Minicuci N, D'Este C, Boerma JT. 2012. Cohort profile: The WHO Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE). Int J Epidemiol 41: 1639-1649.

• Anton SC and Snodgrass JJ. 2012. Origin and evolution of genus Homo: A new perspective. Curr Anthropol 53 (Supplement 6): S479-S496.

• McDade TW, Tallman PS, Madimenos FC, Liebert MA, Cepon TJ, Sugiyama L, and Snodgrass JJ. 2012. Analysis of variability of high sensitivity C-reactive protein in lowland Ecuador reveals no evidence of chronic low-grade inflammation. Am J Hum Biol 24: 675-681.

• Leonard WR, Robertson ML, Snodgrass JJ. 2010. What did humans evolve to eat? Metabolic implications of major trends in hominid evolution. In: Moffat and Prowse (eds.) Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective: Past Meets Present. New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 13-34.
  

• Snodgrass JJ and Leonard WR. 2009. Neandertal energetics revisited: Insights into population dynamics and life history evolution. PaleoAnthropology 2009: 220-237.

• Snodgrass JJ, Sorensen MV, Tarskaia LA, Leonard WR. 2007. Adaptive dimensions of health research among indigenous Siberians. Am J Hum Biol 19: 165-180. (cover photo)

• McDade TW, Williams SR, Snodgrass JJ. 2007. What a drop can do: Dried blood spots as a minimally-invasive method for integrating biomarkers in population-based research. Demography 44: 899-925.

• Snodgrass JJ, Leonard WR, Tarskaia LA, Schoeller DA. 2006. Total energy expenditure in the Yakut (Sakha) of Siberia as measured by the doubly labeled water method.  Am J Clin Nutr 84: 798-806.

• Snodgrass JJ, Leonard WR, Tarskaia LA, Alekseev VP, Krivoshapkin VG. 2005. Basal metabolic rate in the Yakut (Sakha) of Siberia. Am J Hum Biol 17: 155-172. (cover photo)