Human Capital and Economic Opportunity: A Global Working Group

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.

Working Group

Health Inequality (HI)

Additional Information

Homepage: http://www.anthropology.northwestern.edu/faculty/kuzawa.html