Recent Publications
Quantitative and qualitative analysis of stability for 16 serum immunoregulators over 50 freeze–thaw cycles (American Journal of Human Biology)
Maternal and infant predictors of proinflammatory milk immune activity in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (American Journal of Human Biology)
Does the immune system of milk increase activity for infants experiencing infectious disease episodes in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania? (American Journal of Human Biology)
Predictors of milk cortisol in North American women (American Journal of Human Biology)
Associations between milk cortisol and activity of the immune system of milk (American Journal of Human Biology)
Betel quid use is associated with anemia among both men and women in Matlab, Bangladesh (PLOS Global Public Health)
Community voices: broadening participation in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine among persons with disabilities (Nature Communications)
Maternal stress and hair cortisol among pregnant women following hurricane Florence (American Journal of Human Biology)
Does gender structure social networks across domains of cooperation? An exploration of gendered networks among matrilineal and patrilineal Mosuo (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B)
Market integration, income inequality, and kinship system among the Mosuo of China (Evolutionary Human Sciences)
Human milk lactoferrin variation in relation to maternal inflammation and iron deficiency in northern Kenya (American Journal of Human Biology)
Characterizing the extent human milk folate is buffered against maternal malnutrition and infection in drought-stricken northern Kenya (American Journal of Biological Anthropology)
Tradeoffs in milk immunity affect infant infectious disease risk (Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health)
Context Specificity of “Market Integration” among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China (Current Anthropology)
Biocultural Strategies for Measuring Psychosocial Stress Outcomes in Field-Based Research (Field Methods)
Labor migration is associated with lower rates of underweight and higher rates of obesity among left-behind wives in rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study (Globalization and Health)
Social support, nutrition and health among women in rural Bangladesh: complex tradeoffs in allocare, kin proximity and support network size (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, Biological Sciences)
In vitro stimulation of whole milk specimens: A field-friendly method to assess milk immune activity (Journal of Human Lactation)
Gender differences in social networks based on prevailing kinship norms in the Mosuo of China (Social Sciences)
Using evolutionary theory to hypothesize a transition from patriliny to matriliny and back again among the ethnic Mosuo of Southwest China (Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies)
Matriliny reverses gender disparities in inflammation and hypertension among the Mosuo of China (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
High altitude adaptations mitigate risk for hypertension and diabetes-associated anemia (American Journal of Physical Anthropology)
Human milk sIgA antibody in relation to maternal nutrition and infant vulnerability in northern Kenya (Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health)
Buffered or impaired: Maternal anemia, inflammation and breast milk macronutrients in northern Kenya (American Journal of Physical Anthropology)
Human life histories are flexible, not fixed (Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Lower incidence of respiratory infections among iron-deficient children in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health)
A test of the optimal iron hypothesis among breastfeeding Ariaal mothers in northern Kenya (American Journal of Physical Anthropology)
Please consult LAB team members’ CVs or Google Scholar profiles for a comprehensive listing of their publications.
