I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University and a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado Boulder.

My research program uses theory and methods from anthropology, epidemiology, ecology, and network science to investigate how global processes like expanding economic markets and climate change affect rural livelihoods, social networks, and infectious disease ecology.

Most of my work is based in rural northeast Madagascar and Amazonian Ecuador where local populations are experiencing rapid social and economic transitions and startling effects of climate change on their food security and livelihoods. In particular, my work focuses on advancing three major areas of investigation into how rural livelihood transitions affect infectious disease ecology: (1) transmission dynamics, (2) variation in immunity and susceptibility to disease, and (3) innovation in network analysis methods.

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