Current Appointments & Affiliations
Gosnell Family Professor in Global Health
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2019 - Present
Evolutionary Anthropology,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology
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2013 - Present
Evolutionary Anthropology,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Research Professor of Global Health
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2013 - Present
Duke Global Health Institute,
University Institutes and Centers
Recent Publications
Climate Change Perceptions and Adaptive Behavior Among Smallholder Farmers in Northeast Madagascar
Journal Article PLOS Climate · March 7, 2025 Climate change is impacting the food security and health of people worldwide, and the risk for smallholder farmers is particularly high. While many studies have forecast changes to food production at regional scales, fewer studies have directly ass ... Full text CiteDisentangling social, environmental, and zoonotic transmission pathways of a gastrointestinal protozoan (Blastocystis spp.) in northeast Madagascar.
Journal Article American journal of biological anthropology · November 2024 ObjectivesUnderstanding disease transmission is a fundamental challenge in ecology. We used transmission potential networks to investigate whether a gastrointestinal protozoan (Blastocystis spp.) is spread through social, environmental, and/or zoo ... Full text CiteInfectious disease responses to human climate change adaptations.
Journal Article Global change biology · August 2024 Many recent studies have examined the impact of predicted changes in temperature and precipitation patterns on infectious diseases under different greenhouse gas emissions scenarios. But these emissions scenarios symbolize more than altered temperature and ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
US-Israel Collab: Market Integration, Land Use, and Pathogen Transmission in Rural Madagascar
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2028Risk factor analysis and dynamic response for epidemics in heterogeneous populations
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2027Doctoral Dissertation Research: Human mobility and infectious disease transmission in the context of market integration
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2026View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Duke University ·
1999
Ph.D.