Christopher W. Kuzawa
Northwestern University
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Founding member, Cells 2 Society, the Center for Social Disparities and Health, Northwestern University
Christopher Kuzawa is a human biologist and biological anthropologist with interests in developmental biology, epidemiology, and evolutionary biology. Kuzawa's research focuses on the impact of the intrauterine and early postnatal environments on development and adult health. His work in the Philippines explores the long-term impacts of early environments on male reproduction, cardiovascular disease risk, immunity, and the intergenerational impacts of nutritional stress on birth outcomes. Kuzawa's research is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Wenner Gren Foundation. He received his PhD in anthropology and MSPH in epidemiology from Emory University. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University, where he helped launch Cells 2 Society, a new center for the study of social disparities and health.
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Homepage: http://www.anthropology.northwestern.edu/faculty/kuzawa.html
Research Interests:
Developmental origins of adult health and function. Evolutionary biology and epidemiology. Primary research conducted in conjunction with a birth cohort that has followed several thousands individuals from birth through early adulthood in the Philippines. Also interested in applications of developmental origins work to US health disparities.
Related Papers:
Kuzawa CW, Adair LS, Lee N, and McDade TW, 2010
Rapid weight gain after birth predicts life history and reproductive strategy in Filipino males
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(39):16800-16805
Kuzawa CW and Sweet E. 2009
Epigenetics and the embodiment of race: developmental origins of US racial disparities in cardiovascular health
American Journal of Human Biology, 21(1): 2-15