Overview
Tyler Barrett is a Postdoctoral Associate with the Amazon Research Consortium for Climate Change and One Health at the Duke Global Health Institute. His research focuses on rural livelihoods, human mobility, and infectious disease transmission in the context of global environmental change. Barrett approaches these topics through a mix of computational, lab, and field-based methods and his work is currently based in Madagascar and in countries throughout Latin America. He completed his doctoral training in Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University and holds an MA in Anthropology from Northwestern University.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Postdoctoral Associate
Evolutionary Anthropology,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Postdoctoral Associate
Duke Global Health Institute,
University Institutes and Centers
Recent Publications
Spreading potential in disease relevant networks: Predicting centralities in rural Northeast Madagascar.
Journal Article PLOS global public health · January 2026 Heterogeneity in contact patterns can have marked effects on disease transmission, including through superspreading where few individuals drive most infections. Networks based on different types of human-human contacts quantify individuals' centrality, whi ... Full text CiteIdentifying Social-Epidemiological Roles Associated with Viral Exposure Using Regular Equivalence Blockmodeling.
Preprint · December 2, 2025 Full text Link to item CiteCirculating Epstein-Barr Virus Antibody Levels as a Biomarker of Socioecological Adversity in Amazonian Ecuador.
Journal Article American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · May 2025 ObjectivesCirculating Epstein-Barr virus antibodies (EBV-Ab) are used as a biomarker of chronic stress in high-income settings, but their relevance in environments with a high burden of infectious disease, nutritional constraints, and limited reso ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
US-Israel Collab: Market Integration, Land Use, and Pathogen Transmission in Rural Madagascar
ResearchGraduate Student · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2028Doctoral Dissertation Research: Human mobility and infectious disease transmission in the context of market integration
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPI-Fellow · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2026BSF Travel Grant - Market Integration, Land Use, and Pathogen Transmission in Rural Madagascar
TravelPI-Fellow · Awarded by US-Israel Binational Science Foundation · 2025 - 2025View All Grants