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 Research Areas: Biological Anthropology Research Interests: Medical anthropology Health and nutritional anthropology Environmental and Sociocultural change Anthropology and infectious disease Labs: Biological Anthropology Lab Complex 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/ Education Education: PhD, Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2005
