Associate Professor, Anthropology I study how human health and disease are shaped by the environment, biology, and culture. As a biological and medical anthropologist, my work has focused on human adaptation, understanding how people avoid disease in stressful environments, and the effects of environmental and sociocultural change on health and nutrition. While much of my work has examined on how individual and household conditions may shape disease patterns, I am also interested how they shape childhood growth, diet, and nutrition. Research Research Interests: Biocultural approaches Human adaptation Human growth and nutrition Nutrition, health, and life history (Bolivia) Zoonotic diseases and deforestation (Panama) Selected Publications Selected Publications: Tanner, S., Leonard, W. R., Tanner, S. N., & Reyes-García, V. (2017). Physical Activity Levels in Childhood. In American Journal of Human Biology. 29(2):44. New Orleans, LA: Wiley-Blackwell. Zhang, R., W. Zeng. E.A. Undurraga, V. Reyes-Garcia, S. Tanner, W. Leonard, J.R. Behrman, and R. Godoy. (2016). Catch-up growth and growth deficits: Nine-year annual panel child growth data from native Amazonians in Bolivia. Annals of Human Biology 43:4, 304-315, DOI: 10.1080/03014460.2016.1197312 Dyer, J., Tanner, S. N., Velasquez Runk, J., Mertzlufft, C., & Gottdenker, N. (2016). Deforestation, Dogs, and Zoonotic Disease. AnthroNews. Retrieved from http://www.anthropology-news.org/
