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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


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

Circulating 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 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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