Food, Health, and Society

Cover photo from the American Journal of Human Biology, March/April 2007 (Snodgrass et al. "Adaptive dimensions of health research among indigenous Siberians")

examines the effects of economic and cultural factors on diet, health and subsistence in modern and prehistoric contexts. Our studies of health range broadly from nutritional anthropology and social construction of health and illness to evolutionary medicine.

Research, Projects, and Organizations

• Acculturation and psychosocial stress among Latino immigrants in Oregon. (Drs. Snodgrass, McClure, and Stephen)
• Communities and Schools Together: A community-Based Participatory Research project to Prevent Childhood Obesity. (Dr. Moreno-Black)
• Development of biomarkers for assessing health and physiology in population-based research. (Dr. Snodgrass)
• Gender, culture, economic transformation, and food habits in Thailand. (Dr. Moreno-Black)
• Health Consequences of Economic Development Among Indigenous Siberians. (Dr.Snodgrass)
• Herring Synthesis: Documenting and Modeling Herring Spawning Areas and Human and Environmental Impacts over Time in the Southeast Gulf of Alaska. (Dr.Moss)
• Pre-Clovis Excrement From Paisley Cave. (Dr.Jenkins)
• Shuar Health and Life History Project. (Drs. Sugiyama and Snodgrass)
• The Life of a Strawberry. (Dr.Stephen)
• Vitamin B and cognitive ability in elderly Hispanics. (Dr. Moreno-Black)

Courses