President's Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Anthropology and Health and Environment Modeling Co-Laboratory

My research examines how local environments shape host biology through sensitive periods of early development, with a special focus on the microbiome. My work particularly focuses on how urbanization, nutrition transitions, and other globalized processes affect maternal and child health, maternal and child microbiomes, and non-communicable disease. I have worked in Argentina with the Chaco Area Reproductive Ecology Project, in Samoa with the Samoan Obesity, Lifestyle, and Genetic Adaptations Project, and currently work with the NSF-funded Ecoculturing the Infant Gut Microbiome Project in Brazil as a President's Postdoctoral Scholar at OSU.