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Disruptions as a Cause and Consequence of Migration in Human History

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Theme: 
Societies and Their Natural Environments

 

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Small World/Big Bodies

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Theme: 
Biological, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health

 

Description:

Team Members: 

  • Alexandra Brewis, School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Arizona State University)
  • Isa Rodriguez-Soto, School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Arizona State University)
  • Meredith Gartin, School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Arizona State University)
  • Stephen Ruffenach, School of Life Sciences (Arizona State University)
  • Martha Wetzel, School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Arizona State University)
  • Ana Magdalena Hurtado, School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Arizona State University)
  • Alissa Ruth, School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Arizona State University)
  • Tod Swanson, Religious Studies (Arizona State University)
  • Ben Lang, School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Arizona State University)
  • Lubayna Fawcett, School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Arizona State University)
  • Ashley Archer-Hayes, School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Arizona State University)

Global Ethnohydrology Study

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Theme: 
Global Dynamics and Regional Interactions

Washing in river

Team Members: 
  • Amber Wutich, School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Arizona State University)
  • Alexandra Brewis, School of Human Evolution and Social Change (Arizona State University)
  • Beatrice Crona, Stockholm Resilience Center & Department of Systems Ecology (Stockholm University)
  • Paul Westerhoff, Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering (Arizona State University)

People, Primates and Pathogens: The Evolution of a Global Emergency and the Future of Conservation and Public Health Efforts

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Theme: 
Biological, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health
 
  A capuchin monkey (cebus capucinus) 

Description:  Disease exchange between humans and other animals has been an important adaptive pressure during our evolutionary history.

Team Members: 
  • Anne Stone (School of Human Evolution and Social Change), Co-PI
  • Lisa Jones-Engel (Washington National Primate Research Center), Co-PI
  • Alicia Wilbur (School of Human Evolution and Social Change), Co-PI
  • Ananias Escalante (School of Life Sciences), Co-PI
  • Gerardo Chowell-Puente (School of Human Evolution and Social Change), Co-PI
  • Magdalena Hurtado (School of Human Evolution and Social Change)
  • Leanne Nash (School of Human Evolution and Social Change)
  • Gerard Cangelosi (Seattle Biomedical Research Institute)

Innovation of Institutional Rules in the Governance of Common Resources

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Theme: 
Societies and Their Natural Environments

Management of shared or "common pool" resources - like shared grazing or fishing grounds -- is a hard problem. The possibility that some parties will overconsume, pollute or otherwise damage the resource as they extract their personal value from it is always present. To date, researchers have identified basic principles for how humans organize themselves to govern common resources, but these are mostly static principles.

Team Members: 
  • Marco Janssen, assistant professor
  • Allen Lee, academic professional
  • Seema Talele, graduate student
  • Nathan Rollins, graduate student
  • Clint Bushman, undergraduate student
  • David Lees, graduate student
Funding Sources: 
  • National Science Foundation

Influenza in Mexico

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Theme: 
Biological, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health

Description:
Little is known about the mortality and morbidity impact of seasonal and pandemic influenza in Mexico. In this project, we plan to build a model for evaluating vaccination strategies for pandemic influenza in Mexico, tailored to the Mexican demographic and epidemiologic situation.

Publications: 

G. Chowell, L.M.A. Bettencourt, N. Johnson, W.J. Alonso, C. Viboud. The 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in England and Wales: Spatial patterns in transmissibility and mortality impact. Proc. R. Soc. B 275, 501-509 (2008) ( pdf )

H. Nishiura and G. Chowell. Household and community transmission of the Asian influenza A (H2N2) and influenza B viruses in 1957 and 1961. Southeast Asian J. Trop. Med. Pub. Health. 38(6), 1075-1083 (2007)

G. Chowell, M.A. Miller, C. Viboud. Seasonal influenza in the United States, France and Australia: Transmission and prospects for control. Epidemiology and Infection 2007 Jul 18;:1-13 [Epub ahead of print].

M. Nuno, G. Chowell, A. Gumel. Assessing the role of basic control measures, antivirals and vaccine in curtailing pandemic infuenza: Scenarios for the US, UK, and the Netherlands. J R Soc Interface 2007 Jun 22;4(14):505-21.

G. Chowell, H. Nishiura, L.M.A. Bettencourt. Comparative estimation of the reproduction number for pandemic influenza from daily case notification data. J R Soc Interface 4, 155-166 (2007).

M. Nuno, G. Chowell, X. Wang, C. Castillo-Chavez. On the role of cross-immunity and vaccination in the survival of less-fit flu strains. Theor. Pop. Biol. 71, 20-29 (2007).

G. Chowell, C. E. Ammon, N. W. Hengartner, J. M. Hyman. Transmission dynamics of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 in Geneva, Switzerland: Assessing the effects of hypothetical interventions. J. Theor. Biol. 241(2), 193-204 (2006).

 

Team Members: 
  • Gerardo Chowell-Puente 
  • Cecile Viboud (Forgarty International Center, National Institutes of Health) 
  • Mark Miller (Forgarty International Center, National Institutes of Health)
  • Xiaohong Wang (Arizona State University)

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    Funding Sources: 

    World Health Organization

    Open Agent-Based Modeling Consortium

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    Theme: 
    Societies and Their Natural Environments

    Description:
    Intellectual Merits

    Team Members: 
  • Michael Barton, Co-Principal Investigator, SHESC
  • Marco Janssen, Co-Principal Investigator, SHESC
  • Lillian Alessa, Co-Principal Investigator, University of Alaska
  • Sander van der Leeuw
  • J. Steven Lansing
  • Eowyn Allen

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    Funding Sources: 

    National Science Foundation

    The Promise and Challenge of Archaeological Data Integration

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    Theme: 
    Culture, Heritage and Identity

    Description

    Publications: 

    Presentations and Events
    Workshop in December 2004 in Santa Barbara, CA.

    Team Members: 
      School of Human Evolution & Social Change

    • Keith Kintigh, Principal Investigator
    • Arleyn Simon, Principal Investigator
    • Ben Nelson, Principal Investigator
    • Charles Redman, Principal Investigator
    • David Abbott, Principal Investigator
    • George Cowgill, Principal Investigator
    • Katherine Spielmann, Principal Investigator
    • Margaret Nelson, Principal Investigator
    • Michelle Hegmon, Principal Investigator
    • Peter McCartney, Principal Investigator
    • Sander van der Leeuw, Principal Investigator
    • Jodi Guyot, Staff Support

      • Other ASU Collaborators

    • Ann Kinzig, Principal Investigator, School of Life Sciences
    • Chitta Baral, Principal Investigator, Computer Science and Engineering
    • Hasan Davulcu, Principal Investigator, Computer Science and Engineering
    • Huan Liu, Principal Investigator, Computer Science and Engineering
    • K. Selçuk Candan, Principal Investigator, Computer Science and Engineering
    • Marty Anderies, Principal Investigator, School of Life Sciences
    • Subbarao Kambhampati, Principal Investigator, Computer Science and Engineering
    Funding Sources: 

    National Science Foundation, $100,000

    Pathways to Insulin Resistance And Type II Diabetes

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    Theme: 
    Biological, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health

    Description

    Publications: 

    Martin, John F. (2004)
    Post-Natal Diet Determines Insulin Resistance in Fetally Malnourished Low Birthweight Rats (F1) but Does Not Modify the Insulin Resistance of their Offspring (F2). Life Sciences 74(24):3033-3041

    Martin, John F. (2001)
    A Reconsideration of the Origins of the Type 2 Diabetes Epidemic Among Native Americans and the Implications for Intervention Policy. Medical Anthropology 20:25-64

    Martin, John F. (2000)
    Nutritional Origins of Insulin Resistance: A Rat Model for Diabetes- Prone Human Populations. Journal of Nutrition 19:741-744


    Presentations and Events
    Martin, John F. (2004)
    An Acquired Pathway to Insulin Resistance in High Diabetes Prevalence Rate Populations: Implications for Intervention. Mel & Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health Seminar. Tucson, Arizona. March 2, 2004

    Team Members: 
    • John F. Martin, Principal Investigator, SHESC
    • Carol Johnston, Principal Investigator, ASU Nutrition
    • Daniel Benyshek, Principal Investigator, U. Nevada, Las Vegas
    • William Ross, ASU
    Funding Sources: 

    University of Nevada, Las Vegas

    KDI: 3D Knowledge: Acquisition, Representation and Analysis in a Distributed Environment

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    Theme: 
    Culture, Heritage and Identity

    Description

    Team Members: 
    • Anshuman Razdan, Principal Investigator, PRISM Director
    • Arleyn Simon, Co-Principal Investigator, SHESC
    • Mark Henderson, Co-Principal Investigator, PRISM, Industrial Engineering
    • Daniel Collins, Co-Principal Investigator, PRISM, School of Art
    • Gerald Farin, Co-Principal Investigator, PRISM, Computer Science/Engineering
    • Gregory Nielson, Co-Principal Investigator, Computer Science/Engineering
    • David Capco, Co-Principal Investigator, School of Life Sciences
    • Mary Marzke, Co-Principal Investigator, SHESC
    • John Behrens, Co-Principal Investigator, Education/Psychology (formerly)
    • Jeremy Rowe, Co-Principal Investigator, PRISM, IT
    • Sethuraman Panchanathan, Co-Principal Investigator, Computer Science/Engineering
    • B.L. Ramakrishna, Co-Principal Investigator, School of Life Sciences
    • Peter McCartney, Co-Principal Investigator, International Institute of Sustainability

    Research Assistants

    • Kevin Johns (Graduate Research Assistant, ceramics)
    • David Van Alfen (Graduate Research Assistant, ceramics)
    • Utsav Shurmans (Graduate Research Assistant, lithics)
    • Julian Riel-Salvatore (Graduate Research Assistant, lithics)

    Funding Sources: 

    National Science Foundation
    IIS Division of Information & Intelligent Systems
    CSE Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
    ($2,100,000)

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