Overview
Before coming to Duke in 1988, he was on the faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has held visiting positions at IUCN--The World Conservation Union, the Economic Growth Center at Yale University, and the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, World Health Organization and other international organizations. He was named Duke University's Scholar Teacher of the Year in 2004.
Kramer's research is focused on the economics of …
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Juli Plant Grainger Professor Emeritus of Global Environmental Health
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2021 - Present
Environmental Sciences and Policy,
Nicholas School of the Environment
Professor Emeritus of Environmental Economics
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2021 - Present
Environmental Sciences and Policy,
Nicholas School of the Environment
Research Professor of Global Health
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2011 - Present
Duke Global Health Institute,
University Institutes and Centers
Affiliate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society
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2014 - Present
Duke Science & Society,
University Initiatives & Academic Support Units
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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 assessed th ... Full text CiteImpact of price shocks and payments on crop diversification and forest use among Malagasy vanilla farmers
Journal Article Biological Conservation · February 1, 2025 Crop diversification can help buffer farmers from market volatility and provide alternatives to unsustainable export-driven cash crop monocultures that are also driving forest clearing. We developed a discrete choice experiment (DCE) and an innovative tabl ... 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 CiteRecent Grants
US-Israel Collab: Market Integration, Land Use, and Pathogen Transmission in Rural Madagascar
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2028The Impact of Land Use Change on Transmission Potential Networks and Disease Spread in Rural Madagascar
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2025One Health Innovation Fellowships for Zoonotic Disease Research in Mongolia
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEAdvisor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2013 - 2019View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of California, Davis ·
1980
Ph.D.
North Carolina State University ·
1976
M.E.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ·
1975
A.B.