Seminar Series: Stephen McGarvey, Professor, Brown University
When |
Nov 30, 2015
from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM |
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Where | 1101 Morrill Hall |
Contact Name | Tiffany Pittman |
Contact Phone | 301-405-6403 |
Attendees |
Luciana Assini-Meytin Olivia Carter Pokras Jessica Goldberg Sandy Hofferth Danila Marshall Lea Pessin Michael Rendall Elizabeth Seaman Xiayun Tan Yassaman Vafai Yeats Ye |
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About the Talk
The Samoan population of Polynesia has experienced rapid economic development and individual modernization over the last few decades of the 20th and 21st centuries. The nutritional environment changed as part of these regional political and economic changes, resulting in high prevalence of obesity and related cardiometabolic conditions. These overall temporal trends will be described, with foci on selected studies of the 1) food environment; 2) physical activity; 3) dietary patterns and metabolic conditions; 4) genetic epidemiology studies, including gene by environment interactions; and 5) maternal, fetal and infant influences on population obesity. Current and planned public health interventions will be discussed.
About the Speaker
Stephen McGarvey is the Director of the International Health Institute and Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health, and Professor of Anthropology, at Brown University. McGarvey earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Pennsylvania State University in 1980, and an M.P.H. in Epidemiology from Yale University in 1984. McGarvey is concerned with issues of human population biology and global health, specifically modernization-related induced socio-economic and behavioral changes, genetic and environmental influences on obesity and cardiovascular disease risk factor, tropical parasitology and child nutritional status and health, and environmental issues. His research involves developing-world countries such as Samoa, American Samoa, South Africa, Kenya and The Philippines. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and on the editorial board of the American Journal of Human Biology.
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Please note that, at the present time, Morrill Hall is not accessible for handicapped individuals.