Education

• PhD, University of California, Davis, 2003

Interests

• population health
• nutritional anthropology
• behavioral ecology
• public health nutrition
• child growth and development
• biosocial approaches to understanding the causes of health inequalities (with emphasis on young children)
• East Africa
• biological anthropology
• the causes and consequences of household food insecurity
• the causes and consequences of current variation in young child feeding practices
• mental health

Departments

• Anthropology Department, Chair
• Anthropology Department, Core