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COLLABORATIVE FIELDWORK
By now, the Laboratory is well-established as a collaborative center, and hence has achieved the original aim to provide a resource and an impetus for incorporation of biological measures by research undertaken in a wider range of everday settings. Some collaborations have extended over several projects, while others have been focused around a single problem. Active collaborations include:
| Cynthia Beall, biological anthropologist (Case Western University)
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Field site: | Bolivia (field collections 1994-5)
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a. comparative genetic study of Bolivian and Tibetan adaptation to high altitude, with regard to oxygen saturation.
b. sample collections for lifespan endocrinology
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| Field site: | Tibet, village and nomad populations in northwest at 13,000' (field collections, 1993-4; 1997-9) |
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a. comparative genetic study, described above
b. metabolic and body compositional adaptations to seasonality
c. sample collections for lifespan endocrinology
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| Collection just commenced for study of fitness effects of oxygen saturation genotypes
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| Ben Campbell, biological anthropologist (Carolina Population Study Center)
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| Field site: | Zimbabwe (field collections 1993); samples from 2 urban, 2 rural secondary schools |
| Topics: | changes in sexual attitudes and behaviors in relation to maturational endocrine and morphological change among male school attenders ages 11-23 years, as a risk factor for STDs
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| Adrian Angold, psychiatrist, and Jane Costello, behavioral epidemiologist (Duke University) |
| Field site: | Great Smoky Mountains Study [GSMS]: 11 counties of western North Carolina; 2 study groups: 1150 population-based sample, 450 Cherokee total age-appropriate sample. Collection commenced 1992 and continues through present on cohorts initially aged 9, 11, and 13 years. |
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large longitudinal study of physical maturational and social-contextual risk or protective factors for psychopathology in adolescents. My Grant Foundation-funded collaborative study runs parallel with their NIMH-funded one concerning predictors of psychiatric service use in adolescence. |
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pilot study of cortisol reactivity and immunocompetence in subgroup of Year 1 collections stratified by high vs. low ecological stress |
| Field site: | Caring for Children in the Community (CCC): 4 counties of central North Carolina, a population-based sample of 1150 in a region that is 52% African American. Collection commenced 1996 and continues to 1999. |
| Topic: | same as for GSMS, the aim being to replicate findings from GSMS and to compare psychiatric needs and risk structures in another regional and ethnic subpopulation |
| Carol Jenkins, biological anthropologist (Papua New Guinea Medical Research Institute; now at International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh |
| Field site: | Amele, lowland Papua New Guinea |
| Topic: | a. determinants of fertility, and maternal and child well-being in a relatively well-nourished coastal population
b. lifespan endocrinology |
| Field site: | Hagahai, fringe Shrader Range, Papua New Guinea |
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a. health and child development in a remote, recently-contacted highland foraging population
b. lifespan endocrinology |
| Catherine Panter-Brick, biological anthropologist (Durham, UK) |
| Field site: | Salme, Nepal |
| Topic: | comparative study of postpartum prolactin and ovarian function in relation to nursing patterns in Tamang and Kami women |
| Field sites: | Kathmandu and Salme, Nepal (collections 1994-5) |
| Topic: | physical and psychosocial well-being in street children of Kathmandu, contrasted with that of urban squatter, urban middle class, and rural villagers children in intact families
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| Bettina Shell-Duncan, biological anthropologist (U. Washington) |
| Field site: | Korr, Kenya (field collections 12/96-1/97) |
| Topic: | methodological study contrasting data from two measures of immunocompetence (delayed-type hypersensitivity [DTH] and EBV [Epstein Barr Virus antibodies]) in relation to nutritional status and morbidity patterns in Rendille children ages 7-10 years. |
| Virginia Vitzthum, biological anthropologist (UC Riverside) |
| Field site: | urban La Paz (field collections 1995) |
| Topics: | relationship of ovarian cycle phase to acute effects of exercise on circulating steroid and protein hormones in high altitude women |
| Field site: | rural Bolivia (field collections 1995-6) |
| Topics: | a. replication of the urban La Paz protocol among rural women routinely engaged in heavy physical labor
b. social status, workload, and stress among rural Bolivian men |
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