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Tyler Barrett

Postdoctoral Associate
Evolutionary Anthropology

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


Recent Publications


Sociodemographic characteristics predict land use patterns by farmers near a protected area in Madagascar.

Journal Article Scientific reports · February 2026 Globally, most farms are smaller than 10 hectares. Land use by these smallholder farmers in agricultural frontiers is crucial to conservation, food security, and exposure to infectious diseases. However, solely survey-based land use studies miss the fine s ... Full text Cite

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 Cite
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Recent Grants


US-Israel Collab: Market Integration, Land Use, and Pathogen Transmission in Rural Madagascar

ResearchGraduate Student · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2028

Doctoral 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 - 2026

BSF Travel Grant - Market Integration, Land Use, and Pathogen Transmission in Rural Madagascar

TravelPI-Fellow · Awarded by US-Israel Binational Science Foundation · 2025 - 2025

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