Tanner has focused on the importance of economic and cultural change on
patterns of infectious disease. She conducted her dissertation research among the
Tsimane’ on parasite infections and their links to anthropometric indices of
nutritional status. She is a co-PI on an NSF and NIH grant to explore further the
causes and consequences of high parasite loads among Tsimane’ children.
E-mail: stanner1@uga.edu
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