SoS Episodes

Chris and Cara discuss underappreciated athletes before unpacking Big Data with Dr. Elizabeth Miller, an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida. Dr. Miller is a biological anthropologist interested in evolutionary and biocultural approaches to maternal and child health. Her research program spans the study of human milk composition and infant feeding practices, infant immune function in diverse ecologies, maternal iron homeostasis, and early microbiome maturation.

In this episode, she breaks down her use of a biocultural approach to early growth using data from NHANES to test the effects of social inequalities on birth weight and later height and how it can be used to contextualize potential pathways of embodiment that link social structure and biology.

Her latest publication can be found in AJHB, titled:

A critical biocultural approach to early growth in the United States

Find it here: doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23726

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Dr. Miller’s e-mail: emm3@usf.edu

Twitter: @humanbiolab

Website: humanbiolab.wordpress.com/

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Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation

Website: humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc

Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock

Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly

Cristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer:

E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu

On this show Dr. Asher Rosinger joins Cara and Chris to discuss his new paper in the American Journal of Human Biology (AJHB) titled “Cross-cultural variation in thirst perception in hot-humid and hot-arid environments: Evidence from two small-scale populations.”

Dr. Rosinger’s paper is available here:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.23715

For more insight on this topic please see the upcoming AJHB special issue on Extreme Climatic Events and Human Biology and Health, which will be released in January and ties into the theme of thirst and extreme thermal environments.

Applications for the NSF REU field school mentioned on this episode can be accessed here:

anthropology.columbian.gwu.edu/koobi-for…ld-school

Correction: During the podcast Dr. Rosinger mentions “Sarah Fenestra” but her last name is Hlubik.

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Dr. Rosinger is an assistant professor of Anthropology and Biobehavioral Health at Penn State University where he is the director of the Water, Health, and Nutrition laboratory.

Dr. Rosinger’s full bio and e-mail address can be found here:

hhd.psu.edu/contact/asher-rosinger

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Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation

Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc

Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock

Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly

Eric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer:

E-mail: eric.griffith@duke.edu

Chris sits down with Dr. Emily Pollock, a Prevention Effectiveness Fellow at the CDC in the Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention, where she brings a more robust understanding of human behavior to the challenges of STI modeling for public health. Dr. Pollock earned her PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Washington, with a certificate from the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the same institution. Her dissertation, “Epidemics as Complex Systems: Demography, Networks, and Treatment of Chlamydia trachomatis,” focused on applying dynamic network analysis to understand how behavioral, biological, and biomedical factors influence chlamydia reinfection. Most recently, she worked as a data analytics and modeling team member for the CDC’s response to the monkeypox outbreak. She has helped develop agent-based network models to understand behavioral drivers of monkeypox transmission and the effects of behavior on the epidemic’s trajectory.

She discusses two papers:

First, the monkeypox model she and her team recently published: “Modeling the Impact of Sexual Networks in the Transmission of Monkeypox virus Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men” which you can find at: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/…tm?s_cid=mm7135e2_w

And this paper: “Impacts of Changing Sexual Behavior on Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Burden Among US High School Students, 2007 to 2017,” which has some fascinating insights into changing rates of sexual behavior and their contribution to some declines in adolescent STI diagnoses.

Find it here: dx.doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001390 [dx.doi.org]

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Emily’s e-mail: ruu7@cdc.gov

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Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation

Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc

Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock

Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly

Cristina Gildee, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer:

E-mail: cgildee@uw.edu