Most Recent News (see below for more news)

• I will take over as Department Head in Anthropology at UO on July 1. I'm looking forward to working with and leading a wonderful group of faculty, staff, and students. I will admit that I am a little sad to only be teaching one course per year (ANTH 175, Evolutionary Medicine) and having less bandwidth for research and writing. But I'm excited for this new journey! (posted 5/7/2025)

• The UO online magazine CAS Connection published a story today about students involved in the Homelessness and Health project, including undergrads Avi Locke, Dylan Podrabsky, and Bella Albiani, as well as grad student Mackenzie Ní Flainn. I'm really excited to see our amazing students in the spotlight! Here's the link (posted 5/7/2025)
  

• This past Saturday was the Dia de Salud health fair, an annual free clinic that I run in collaboration with UO MAPS—the Minority Association of Premedical Students (and MAPS lead organizers Cinthia Muñiz & Al Wong)—which provides health care access for those in Eugene experiencing barriers. This year it included 28 UO student volunteers and 4 volunteer physicians. And my amazing staff of volunteers (Allissa Van Steenis, Avi Locke, Ali Silva Reyes, Ava Rodgers, Nickhil Prakash, Olivia Ferrell, Emma Kammerer, and Kayla Calvert) helped train the main volunteer staff. This was the 13th year of the clinic, which I started with former grad student Julia Ridgeway-Diaz (who is now Dr. Julia Ridgeway-Diaz) and Huerto de la Familia back in 2011 (it's the third time in the "post-pandemic era" that we've held the event). (posted 5/7/2025)
  

• I recently presented a talk as part of a two-day NSF-funded workshop Disability Anthropology AF (which was held in conjunction with SfAA in Portland [note that officially AF means “Across Four-fields”). My talk was: "Biocultural approaches to studying health and well-being: Considering disability". (posted 5/7/2025)

• I organized and ran (along with Felicia Madimenos, Trudy Turner, and Connie Mulligan) an invited session at AABA that focused on bioethics and the intersections and tensions between open data sharing and data sovereignty. It was an AMAZING session and I was blown away by the presentations and discussant comments (thank you Krystal Tsosie and Ben Auerbach!). It’s SO cool to see how the field is shifting in a positive direction! (posted 5/7/2025)

• We had an excellent showing at conferences this spring, with presentations at the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) conference in Portland by Tian Walker, Dylan Podrabsky, Avi Locke, and Alicia DeLouize; the Human Biology Association (HBA) conference in Baltimore by Alicia DeLouize, Bella Albiani, Avi Locke, and Allissa van Steenis; and at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA) in Baltimore by Alicia DeLouize and Bella Albiani. (posted 5/7/2025)

• Over the past several months, I've given a number of presentations around the UO campus, including talking about my journey to global health to the Students for Global Health (SGH); about why medicine needs evolution to both the Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC) and the clinical staff of University Health Services; and about the Homelessness and Health project to the Department of Anthropology. (posted 5/7/2025)
  

• In February, Jo Weaver and I were awarded a $69,000 NSF supplement to expand our Homelessness and Health work. The new funds will allow us to examine the impact of permanent supportive housing through a pre- and post- move-in assessment for a new property run by Homes for Good that will open in August 2025. We will work with future residents during summer 2025, then follow up with them in the fall to interview them on the experience of moving into permanent housing, and then follow up again at 6 months post move-in to assess health and well-being. It’s a really cool opportunity and we feel extremely lucky! (posted 5/7/2025)
  

About Me
I am a professor and scientist at the University of Oregon with research and teaching focused on human biology and global health. My work sits at the intersection of the natural and social sciences, and its interdisciplinary focus reflects my deep commitment to integration across the anthropological subfields, and between anthropology and other disciplines such as human & comparative physiology, medicine, epidemiology, psychology, nutritional sciences, molecular biology, and ecology & evolutionary biology.

Research. My research addresses topics such as the influence of social and environmental factors on health (including chronic and infectious/parasitic diseases, as well as mental health issues), human adaptation to environmental stressors (e.g., physiological adaptation to cold stress), aging in global context, biomarkers of physiology and health obtained using minimally invasive techniques, anthropological practice, and the evolution of the human diet (see below for more details). I've been honored nationally for my research, including being elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013. Here's a link to my publications and to my Google Scholar Profile

Research Lab. Since 2007, I have directed the Global Health Biomarker Lab, an immunology/endocrinology research lab located in Pacific Hall 12 that focuses on the development and application of minimally invasive techniques for assessing health and physiology in population-based research. We have been involved in long-term research projects in the US and Ecuador, and we have provided training and technical support for projects in the US (including in Oregon and Puerto Rico), Russia/Siberia, Laos, Tunisia, UAE, Cameroon, Tanzania, Kenya, Republic of Congo, and the SAGE countries (China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russia, and South Africa). The lab specializes in the development of dried blood spot (DBS) techniques and the application of minimally invasive biomarkers (DBS, saliva, urine, feces, and hair) to global health questions. The lab works closely with Dr. Zachary DuBois and UO Center for Translational Neuroscience Research Professor Dr. Birdie Shirtcliff.

Teaching and Mentoring. I teach a variety of courses in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Health program, including Human Growth and Development (ANTH 369), Evolutionary Medicine (ANTH 175), and Emerging Infectious Diseases and Pandemics (ANTH 410/510), as well as the the Health Sciences Academic Residential Community (ARC) (UGST 112). I have also recently started teaching an upper division and graduate seminar class called Healthy Aging, though the full title is How Evolutionary Medicine Can Help Us Live a Long, Healthy, and Meaningful Life (ANTH 410/510). I have been honored for my teaching and mentoring, including being named the UO Williams Fellow in 2012 in recognition of distinguished undergraduate teaching, receiving a NACADA national faculty advisor award in 2015, and being honored by UO with a Faculty Research Mentor Award in 2024. I was one of the founders and on the original Advisory Board of the Provost's Teaching Academy, which is one of the main drivers of UO's teaching culture. For more info on my teaching, check out my Teaching Academy Profile. Read more about my Teaching, Mentoring, and Campus Leadership

Service, Leadership, and Community Engagement. I am very active in campus and professional leadership (including serving as UO's Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Research and Distinguished Scholarships [2016-2020] & Vice President of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists [2016-2018]). I recently served on the Editorial Committee of Annual Review of Anthropology (2019-2023) and as the President of the Human Biology Association (2022-2024). I was one of the founders of Oregon's Corona Corps, which provided contact tracing and support to Lane County and the State of Oregon. And, I was co-organizer (with Siobhain McGuinness) of the 2017 March for Science in New Orleans; the event was estimated to have had ~7000 attendees. Much of my research and teaching addresses social determinants of health and I am committed personally and professionally to reducing global inequities. I am also deeply invested in the health and well-being of my community and state, partnering with a variety of local organizations (e.g., Huerto de la Familia, Black Thistle Street Aid, and HIV Alliance) to increase health care access.

Primary Academic Appointment
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon (Full Professor since 2016; at UO since 2005)

Secondary Academic Appointment
Invited Faculty, Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity, Hokkaido University, Japan (2021-2026)

Selected Leadership Positions at UO
Co-Director, Center for Global Health, University of Oregon (2016-)
Co-Director & Core Faculty, Global Health Minor Program, University of Oregon (2017-; co-director 2024-2025)
Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Research and Distinguished Scholarships, University of Oregon (2016-2020)
Director, Office of Distinguished Scholarships, University of Oregon (2016-2020)
Co-Chair, Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Oregon (2015-2020)
Founder & Director, Center for Undergraduate Research and Engagement (CURE), University of Oregon (2017-2019)
Interim Director, McNair Scholars Program, University of Oregon (2017)
Chair, Undergraduate Council, University Senate, University of Oregon (2012-2014)

Areas of Specialization
Human Biology; Human Nutrition & Energetics; Evolutionary Medicine; Global Health; Epidemiology; Mental Health; Growth & Development; Aging; Biomarkers of Physiology and Health; Human Skeletal Biology; Anthropological Practice

Education
NIA Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Mind and Biology, The University of Chicago (2004-2005)
Ph.D., Anthropology, Northwestern University (2004)
M.A., Anthropology, University of Florida (1998)
B.A., Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz (1995)

Selected Awards
University of Oregon Faculty Research Mentor Award, Center for Undergraduate Research and Engagement (CURE),
   2024 (coverage by CURE)
National Academic Advising Association Outstanding Faculty Advising Award (Certificate of Merit Recipient), 2015
   (coverage by Around the O)
University of Oregon Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, 2014 (coverage by Around the O)
Human Biology Association's Michael A. Little Early Career Award, 2013
Elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2013
Scientist to Watch in August issue of The Scientist magazine, 2013 (see profile and UO coverage)
University of Oregon Williams Fellow for distinguished undergraduate teaching, 2012
University of Oregon Faculty Excellence Award in recognition of outstanding research and leadership, 2012
PeaceHealth/Sacred Heart Medical Foundation Clinical Research Recognition Award, 2011

Courses I Regularly Teach
Anth 175: Evolutionary Medicine (Syllabus) (next taught: Fall 2025)
Anth 369: Human Growth & Development (Syllabus) (next taught: TBA)

Anth 410/510: Emerging Infectious Diseases & Pandemics (Syllabus) (next taught: TBA)
Anth 410/510: Healthy Aging (next taught: TBA)
UGST 109: Paging Dr. Darwin (Freshman Interest Group College Connections Course) (Syllabus) (next taught: TBA)
UGST 112: Health Sciences Academic Residential Community (ARC) seminar (next taught: TBA)

Research Interests, Publications, and External Grant Support
My research focuses on human health and adaptation and sits at the intersection of human physiology, evolutionary biology, nutritional sciences, epidemiology, and the behavioral sciences. This research centers around the following six topics:

• The influence of social and environmental factors on health, including chronic and infectious/parasitic diseases, as well as mental health issues

• Human adaptation to environmental stressors such as physiological adaptation to cold stress
  

• Global patterns of aging and their determinants

• Development and validation of minimally invasive techniques for collection of biomarkers of physiology and health
  

• Anthropological practice, with particular attention to bioethics and community engagement
  

• The evolution of the human diet, including dietary adaptations in the genus Homo.
  

I have published in a wide range of outlets, including American Journal of Human Biology, The Lancet, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychoneuroendocrinology, American Journal of Epidemiology, Journal of Nutrition, Current Anthropology, and The New York Times (see my list of publications and my Google Scholar Profile).

My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health (including the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse), the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, the Forensic Science Foundation, and the World Health Organization.

My research has been covered by a variety of media outlets, including The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Science, Good Morning America, Discovery News, and Oregon Live.

Collaborative Human Biology Field Research
I am part of several large collaborative research teams and am involved in field research projects in the Amazon region of Ecuador (since 2005 as co-director of The Shuar Health and Life History Project), Oregon (the Homelessness Policy and Health Project; since 2023), and northeastern Siberia (Indigenous Siberian Health and Adaptation Project; currently on hold indefinitely for geopolitical reasons).

Collaborations with the WHO
Since 2005, I have worked closely with the  World Health Organization, initially with the multi-country Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE), a longitudinal study of health and well-being in older adults that focuses on nationally representative samples in six countries (China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russia, and South Africa). My work on SAGE continues as we regularly publish epidemiological findings and use data to address important topics in human biology.

From 2015-2016, I helped organize and train data collectors for the Tunisian Health Examination Survey, a collaborative national health survey of >9000 people that was run by the Republic of Tunisia and WHO. One major innovation of the study was the use of point-of-care devices to assess health, including measurement of HbA1c, lipids, glucose, and hemoglobin; my lab provided training to the data collectors and supported implementation of the survey. We continue to publish from this unique dataset.

And in 2021 my lab began involvement in the design and launch of the WHO's World Health Survey Plus (WHS+), with contracts from WHO on the design and implementation. Our work involves design of written and video protocols for point-of-care devices, anthropometrics, functional measures, and blood pressure measurement. WHS+ launched in Cambodia, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Ghana in 2023.

Global Health Biomarker Lab
I direct the Global Health Biomarker Lab, an immunology/endocrinology research lab located in Pacific Hall 12 that focuses on the development and application of minimally invasive techniques for assessing health and physiology in population-based research. We have been involved in long-term research projects in the US and Ecuador, and we have provided training and technical support for projects in the US (including in Oregon and Puerto Rico), Russia/Siberia, Laos, Tunisia, UAE, Cameroon, Tanzania, Kenya, Republic of Congo, and the SAGE countries (China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russia, and South Africa). The lab specializes in the development of dried blood spot (DBS) techniques and the application of minimally invasive biomarkers (DBS, saliva, urine, feces, and hair) to global health questions.

Recent-ish News & Really Cool News from the Archives

• I gave a talk last week on the Shuar research ("Tradeoffs between immune function and childhood growth among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists") in the Center for Anatomical Sciences at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. (posted 7/15/2024)

• Jo Weaver and I gave three back-to-back presentations yesterday on the Homelessness and Health project ("Homelessness and health: Investigating structural, social, and behavioral pathways to develop effective interventions") to the UO Board of Trustees. (posted 6/4/2024).
  

• I had the opportunity to be part of the 20th anniversary celebration for Northwestern University's Global Health Studies program and its founding director Bill Leonard. I was asked to give the keynote address to honor Bill and outline the program's accomplishments (more info here). I had an absolutely wonderful time and it was amazing to celebrate Bill! (5/18/2024)

• I am honored to have been recognized by the Center for Undergraduate Research and Engagement (CURE) as a recipient of the Faculty Research Mentor Award (link to info on CURE website). The coolest part is that I was nominated by a coalition of 30 students from the Minority Association of Premedical Students. (posted 4/31/2024)

• It was very cool to have participated in the Duke University Population Research Institute's meeting of the Population Ecology, Aging, and Health Network (PEcAHN)--and thanks to Herman Pontzer and Amanda McGrosky for organizing it! Sam Urlacher and I were there to represent the Shuar Health and Life History Project. Here's more info on the workshop. (posted 4/13/2024)
  

• After two years as President of the Human Biology Association, I am excited to have rotated off and to have handed over the reins to Rick Bribiescas. It's been an amazing time of growth in HBA and I've loved working with our amazing executive committee! (posted 3/29/2024)

• Undergraduate Avi Locke (Anthropology and MSci majors and Global Health and Arabic Studies minors) received the Hui Scholarship (Hui Undergraduate Research Scholars) from the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program and the VPRI. The program, which provides $15,000 and professional development opportunities, supports students from historically marginalized communities to engage in research in STEM fields. They will be working primarily with me over the next year but also continuing their work with Zachary DuBois and the STAR Lab. (posted 3/29/2024)

• I filmed a video a few weeks ago that together with poetry professor Barbara Mossberg introduces the Undergraduate Research Symposium’s Keynote Speaker—this year the speaker is Adie Fecker, a 3rd year med student at OHSU who is also a published poet. Adie and I worked together when she was an undergrad (she was president of the student group ASURE) to encourage more students from the humanities to submit their work to the symposium. The Keynote Reception is Thursday, May 23 from 12:15-1:15 in the EMU. (posted 3/29/2024)

• Huge congratulations to Nayantara Arora who was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. Nayantara will pursue two master's degrees at Oxford--one in modeling for global health and the other in international health and tropical medicine. Nayantara is the first UO Rhodes Scholar since 2007. More info can be found here. (posted 1/9/2024)

• Our team, led by Jo Weaver, Zachary DuBois, and Mackenzie VanLaar & the Black Thistle Street Aid team, were recently awarded an NSF grant for our project "Homelessness and health: Integrating structural, social, and behavioral pathways". The project launched this summer and will run through 2026. (posted 8/5/2023)

• So excited to see the publication of the special issue of American Journal of Human Biology focused on minimally invasive biomarkers in human population biology research. I guest edited the issue and contributed an introduction that summarizes the papers and comments on the state of the field. I am a coauthor on contributions led by Tyler Barrett ("Age-related patterns of cytomegalovirus antibodies accompanying Epstein-Barr virus co-infection"), Holly Horan ("Maternal hair cortisol concentrations across pregnancy and the early postpartum period in a Puerto Rican sample"), Maureen Devlin ("The utility of dried blood spot measurement of bone turnover markers in biological anthropology"), Alicia DeLouize ("Current and future applications of biomarkers in samples collected through minimally invasive methods for cancer medicine and population-based research"), Theresa Gildner ("After Theranos: Using point-of-care testing to advance measures of health biomarkers in human biology research"), and Felicia Madimenos ("Bringing the lab bench to the field: Point-of-care testing for enhancing health research and stakeholder engagement in rural/remote, indigenous, and resource-limited contexts"). This is years in the making! Here's the link to the issue: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15206300/2022/34/11. (posted 11/8/2022)
  

• We hosted the 15th International Congress of Physiological Anthropology meeting (link) in Eugene from September 15-18, welcoming in-person and virtual participants from around the world (including the US, Japan, Singapore, Korea, Turkey, and the UK) for talks, posters, discussions, and workshops. A huge thanks to conference co-chair Alicia DeLouize and the undergraduates and grad students on the Local Arrangements Committee who helped me host this successful meeting. (posted 9/19/2022)

• A highlight of the ICPA 2022 Eugene conference was the Young Investigator session, which included excellent talks by PhD students Alicia DeLouize ("Energetic constraints or cellular hyperactivity as the ultimate cause of aging: Insights from the Tunisian Health Examination Survey") and Tian Walker ("Diabetes treatment and chronic inflammation in older adults: Findings from the Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)"), recent graduate Adriana Wisniewski ("The prevalence of metabolic syndrome components and their association with HbA1c in Tunisia"), and undergraduate Madeleine Getz ("Care, culture, and bioethics: Community engagement best practices in population-based global health research"). So proud of them for outstanding science and impressive talks! (posted 9/19/2022)

• I was a guest last week on Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn's wonderful podcast The Sausage of Science. Because we were so chatty--talking about my research, the future of the Human Biology Association, adverse childhood experiences, teaching, and the public health response to COVID--the podcast is being released in two parts. Here is a link to Part 1. (posted 4/27/21)

• I gave a talk today ("Measuring health biomarkers in population-based research using point-of-care testing: Possibilities and practical considerations") and participated in a panel discussion as part of the WHO's World Health Survey Plus (WHS+) Virtual Expert Consultation meeting. It was a two-part presentation with Eileen Crimmins (from USC)--with her talking about the power of biomarkers in social science research and me talking about the technical and ethical sides of their use, with a focus on point-of-care testing. (posted 4/14/21)

Selected Recent Publications (Publication Archive) (Google Scholar Link)

• McGrosky A, Luke A, … Snodgrass JJ, … Pontzer H, and the IAEA DLW Database Consortium. 2025. Energy expenditure and obesity across the economic spectrum: A cross-sectional analysis of international observational studies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in press.

• Cepon-Robins TJ, Gildner TE, Urlacher SS, Liebert MA, Madimenos FC, Bribiescas RG, Eick G, Harrington C, Sugiyama LS, and Snodgrass JJ. 2025. Soil-transmitted helminths and the intricacies of immunoregulation: Evidence from Amazonian Ecuador for the importance of considering species-specific effects within the Old Friends Hypothesis. American Journal of Human Biology, in press.
  
  
• Cotton S, Boose K, Epstein S, Meinelt A, Snodgrass JJ, and White FJ. 2025. Variation in estradiol profiles of captive female bonobos (Pan paniscus). American Journal of Primatology. (link to paper)

• Barrett TM, Liebert MA, Eick GN, Ridgeway-Diaz JG, Madimenos FC, Blackwell AD, Cepon-Robins TJ, Urlacher SS, Sugiyama LS, and Snodgrass JJ. 2025. Circulating Epstein-Barr Virus antibody levels as a biomarker of socioecological adversity in a high pathogen population in Amazonian Ecuador. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)
  
  
• Liebert MA, Urlacher SS, Madimenos FC, Gildner TE, Cepon-Robins TJ, Harrington CJ, Bribiescas, RG, Sugiyama LS, and Snodgrass JJ. 2025. Variation in diurnal cortisol patterns among the Indigenous Shuar of Amazonian Ecuador. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)
  

• Tallman PS, Seligman RA, Madimenos FC, Liebert MA, Cepon-Robins TJ, Snodgrass JJ, McDade TW, and Sugiyama LS. 2025. Somatic symptoms are associated with elevated blood pressure and Epstein-Barr virus antibodies among Shuar of the Ecuadorian Amazon. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)

• Getz M, DeLouize AM, Madimenos FC, Uwizeye G, Thayer ZM, McKerracher LJ, Nuñez-de la Mora A, and Snodgrass JJ. Bioethics recommendations to increase culturally informed global health survey research: A framework for centering community engagement. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)
  

• Bribiescas RG, Sancilio A, Amir D, Cepon-Robins TJ, Gildner TE, Liebert ME, Madimenos FC, Urlacher SS, Snodgrass JJ, and Sugiyama LS. 2025. Testosterone, 8-Oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) and Cu/Zn Superoxide Dismutase (SOD) in adult Shuar males of Amazonian Ecuador: A test for evidence of trade-offs between reproductive effort and oxidative stress. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)
  

• Wisniewski A, DeLouize AM, Walker T, Chatterji S, Naidoo N, Kowal P, and Snodgrass JJ. 2024. Sustained metabolic dysregulation and the emergence of diabetes: Associations between HbA1c and metabolic syndrome components in Tunisian diabetic and nondiabetic groups. Journal of Physiological Anthropology. (link to paper)
  

• Gettler LT, Jankovic-Rankovic J, Gengo RG, Eick GN, Pfaff Nash M, Arumah E, Boru AM, Ali SA, Urlacher SS, Meyer JS, Snodgrass JJ, and Oka R. 2024. Refugee health and physiological profiles in transitional settlements in Serbia and Kenya: Comparative evidence for effects of gender and social support. Psychoneuroendocrinology. (link to paper)
  

Archive of Selected Publications (Publication Archive)

• Snodgrass. 2022. Minimally invasive biomarkers in human population biology research, Part 2: An introduction to the special issue. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)

• Madimenos FC, Gildner TE, Eick GN, Sugiyama LS, and Snodgrass JJ. 2022. Bringing the lab bench to the field: Point-of-care testing for enhancing health research and stakeholder engagement in rural/remote, Indigenous, and resource-limited contexts. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)

• Devlin MJ, Eick G, and Snodgrass JJ. 2022. The utility of dried blood spot measurement of bone turnover markers in biological anthropology. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)

• Jankovic-Rankovic J, Oka RC, Meyer JS, Snodgrass JJ, Eick GN, and Gettler LT. 2022. Transient refugees’ social support, mental health, and physiological markers: Evidence from Serbian asylum centers. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper).

• Horan H, Cheyney M, Gomez Torres E, Eick G, Bovbjerg M, and Snodgrass JJ. 2022. Maternal hair cortisol concentrations across pregnancy and the early postpartum period in a Puerto Rican sample. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)

• Gildner TE, Eick GN, Schneider AL, Madimenos FC, and Snodgrass JJ. 2022. After Theranos: Using point-of-care testing to advance measures of health biomarkers in human biology research. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)

• DeLouize AM, Eick G, Karam SD, and Snodgrass JJ. 2022. Current and future applications of biomarkers in samples collected through minimally invasive methods for cancer medicine and population-based research. American Journal of Human Biology. (link to paper)

• Cepon-Robins TJ, Blackwell AD, Gildner TE, Liebert MA, Urlacher SS, Madimenos FC, Eick GN, Snodgrass JJ, and Sugiyama LS. 2021. Pathogen disgust sensitivity protects against infections in a high pathogen environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (link to paper)

• Urlacher SS, Snodgrass JJ, Dugas LR, Madimenos FC, Sugiyama LS, Liebert MA, Joyce CJ, Teran E, and Pontzer, H. 2021. Childhood daily energy expenditure does not decrease with market integration and is not related to adiposity in Amazonia. Journal of Nutrition. (link to paper)

• Schrock JM, Snodgrass JJ, and Sugiyama LS. 2020. Lassitude: The emotion of being sick. Evolution and Human Behavior. (link to paper)

• Urlacher SS, Ellison PT, Sugiyama LS, Pontzer H, Eick G, Liebert MA, Cepon-Robins T, Gildner TE, and Snodgrass JJ. 2018. Tradeoffs between immune function and childhood growth among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists. PNAS.

• Stagaman K, Cepon-Robins TJ, Liebert MA, Gildner TE, Urlacher SS, Madimenos FC, Guillemin K, Snodgrass JJ, Sugiyama LS, and Bohannan BJM. 2018. Market Integration Predicts Human Gut Microbiome Attributes across a Gradient of Economic Development. mSystems.

• Boose K, White F, Brand A, Meinelt A, and Snodgrass JJ. 2018. Infant handling in bonobos (Pan paniscus): Exploring functional hypotheses and the relationship to oxytocin. Physiology & Behavior.

• Eick GN, Kowal P, Barrett T, Thiele EA, and Snodgrass JJ. 2017. Enzyme-linked immunoassay-based quantitative measurement of apolipoprotein-B (ApoB) in dried blood spots, a biomarker of cardiovascular disease risk. Biodemog Social Bio 63: 116-130.

• Blackwell AD, Trumble BC, Suarez IM, Stieglitz J, Beheim B, Snodgrass JJ, Kaplan H, and Gurven M. 2016. Immune function in Amazonian horticulturalists. Ann Hum Biol 43: 382-396.

• Eick G, Urlacher SS, McDade TW, Kowal P, and Snodgrass JJ. 2016. Validation of an optimized ELISA for quantitative assessment of Epstein-Barr virus antibodies from dried blood spots. Biodemog Social Bio 62: 222-233.

• Urlacher SS, Liebert MA, Snodgrass JJ, Blackwell AD, Cepon-Robins TJ, Gildner TE, Madimenos FC, Amir D, Bribiescas RG, and Sugiyama LS. 2016. Heterogeneous effects of market integration on subadult growth and nutritional status among the Amazonian Shuar. Ann Hum Biol 43: 316-329.

• Kim HK, Tiberio SS, Capaldi DM, Shortt JW., Squires EC, and Snodgrass JJ. 2015. Intimate partner violence and diurnal cortisol patterns in couples. Psychoneuroendocrinology 51: 35-46.

• Kowal P, Arokiasamy P, Afshar S, Pati S, and Snodgrass JJ. 2015. Multimorbidity: Health care that counts past one for 1.2 billion older adults. Lancet 385: 2252-2253.

• Valeggia CR, Snodgrass JJ. 2015. Health of indigenous peoples. Annu Rev Anthropol 44: 117-135.

• Wu F, Guo Y, Chatterji S, Zheng Y, Naidoo N, Jiang Y, Biritwum R, Yawson A, Minicuci N, Rodriguez A, Espinoza B, Maximova T, Peltzer K, Phaswanamafuya N, Snodgrass JJ, Thiele E, Ng N, and Kowal P. 2015. Common risk factors for chronic non-communicable diseases among older adults in China, Ghana, Mexico, India, Russia and South Africa: The Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) Wave 1. BMC Public Health 15: 88.

• Scott IM, Clark AP, Josephson SC, Boyette A, Cuthill I, Fried R, Gibson M, Hewlett B, Jamieson M, Jankowiak W, Honey PL, Huang Z, Liebert MA, Purzycki BG, Shaver J, Snodgrass JJ, Sosis R, Sugiyama LS, Swami V, Yu DW, Zhao Y, and Penton-Voak IS. 2014. Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel. PNAS 111: 14388-14393.

• Peltzer K, Williams JS, Kowal P, Negin J, Snodgrass JJ, Yawson AE, Minicuci N, Thiele EA, Phaswana-Mafuya N, Biritwum R, and Chatterji, S. 2014. Universal health coverage in emerging economies: Findings on health care utilization by older adults in China, Ghana, India, Mexico, the Russian Federation and South Africa. Glob Health Act 7: 25314.

• Leonard WR, Levy SB, Tarskaia LA, Klimova TM, Fedorova VI, Baltakhinova ME, Krivoshapkin VG, and Snodgrass JJ. 2014. Seasonal variation in basal metabolic rates among the Yakut (Sakha) of northeastern Siberia. Am J Hum Biol 26: 437-445.

• Liebert MA, Snodgrass JJ, Blackwell AD, Madimenos FC, Cepon TJ, and Sugiyama LS. 2013. Implications of market integration for cardiovascular and metabolic health among an indigenous Amazonian Ecuadorian population. Ann Hum Biol 40: 228-242.

• Snodgrass JJ. 2013. Health of indigenous circumpolar populations. Annu Rev Anthropol 42: 69-87.

• Snodgrass JJ. 2012. Human energetics. In: Stinson et al. (eds.) Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Approach (2nd Edition). New York: Wiley, pp. 327-386.

• Kowal P, Chatterji S, Naidoo N, Biritwum R, Wu F, Lopez Ridaura R, Maximova T, Arokiasamy P, Phaswana-Mafuya N, Williams SR, Snodgrass JJ, Minicuci N, D'Este C, Boerma JT. 2012. Cohort profile: The WHO Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE). Int J Epidemiol 41: 1639-1649.

• Anton SC and Snodgrass JJ. 2012. Origin and evolution of genus Homo: A new perspective. Curr Anthropol 53 (Supplement 6): S479-S496.

• McDade TW, Tallman PS, Madimenos FC, Liebert MA, Cepon TJ, Sugiyama L, and Snodgrass JJ. 2012. Analysis of variability of high sensitivity C-reactive protein in lowland Ecuador reveals no evidence of chronic low-grade inflammation. Am J Hum Biol 24: 675-681.

• Leonard WR, Robertson ML, Snodgrass JJ. 2010. What did humans evolve to eat? Metabolic implications of major trends in hominid evolution. In: Moffat and Prowse (eds.) Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective: Past Meets Present. New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 13-34.
  

• Snodgrass JJ and Leonard WR. 2009. Neandertal energetics revisited: Insights into population dynamics and life history evolution. PaleoAnthropology 2009: 220-237.

• Snodgrass JJ, Sorensen MV, Tarskaia LA, Leonard WR. 2007. Adaptive dimensions of health research among indigenous Siberians. Am J Hum Biol 19: 165-180. (cover photo)

• McDade TW, Williams SR, Snodgrass JJ. 2007. What a drop can do: Dried blood spots as a minimally-invasive method for integrating biomarkers in population-based research. Demography 44: 899-925.

• Snodgrass JJ, Leonard WR, Tarskaia LA, Schoeller DA. 2006. Total energy expenditure in the Yakut (Sakha) of Siberia as measured by the doubly labeled water method.  Am J Clin Nutr 84: 798-806.

• Snodgrass JJ, Leonard WR, Tarskaia LA, Alekseev VP, Krivoshapkin VG. 2005. Basal metabolic rate in the Yakut (Sakha) of Siberia. Am J Hum Biol 17: 155-172. (cover photo)