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Susan Tanner

UGA Arch
Associate Professor

I study how the environment, biology, and culture shape human health and disease. My recent research in Panama focuses on Zoonotic diseases and deforestation, while in Bolivia, I study nutrition, health, and life history. I am interested in how individual and household conditions may shape disease patterns, and also how they shape childhood growth, diet, and nutrition. My research also aims to identify key practices in field-based stress biomarker collections that have emerged from decades of biocultural research, including available options, agreed-on conventions, and ethical considerations. 

Research Areas:
Research Interests:
  • Human adaptation 
  • Environmental and sociocultural change 
  • Health and nutrition 
  • Psychosocial stress 
  • Landscape disturbance 
  • Tsimane’ Forager-Horticulturalists 
  • Age-related decline 
  • Birth season 
  • Palm propagation 
  • Neglected tropical disease 
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/

Education:

PhD, Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2005

Articles Featuring Susan Tanner

Vector-borne diseases—those transmitted by biting insects like mosquitoes and ticks—pose a significant health threat to more than half of the world’s population.

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