Craig Hadley
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of California- Davis 2003
Anthropology 218D
404-727-5248
chadley@emory.edu
My research centers on the social and cultural production of health and is at the intersection of anthropological demography, population studies, public health nutrition, and population health. I am interested in issues of food insecurity and how uncertain and unpredictable household environments influence physical and mental wellbeing across the life course and across generations. This interest is motivated by the observations that food insecurity and hunger are increasing in many parts of the world, that 850 million people go to bed hungry each night, and hunger kills more people than HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria, combined. Recent increases in the demand for meat, volatility in regional and local production, and non-food used of grains will all place upward pressure on food prices. This trend will have a dramatic impact on access to food. Understanding the consequences of these changes and the impact of food insecurity on population health motivated much of my research program. With colleagues, I am also examining the occurrence of food insecurity among refugees and immigrants to the US and examining how insecure access to food might generate health disparities. Finally, much of my research also touches on issues of infant and young child feeding practices, and how cultural norms around infant feeding impact on health and demographic outcomes. In Ethiopia and Tanzania we are also exploring the potential intergenerational transmission of infant and young child feeding behaviors. All of the above projects are multi-method, multi-disciplinary, multi-university and multi-country collaborative projects.
My graduate training was carried out at the University of California, Davis and I received my PhD in 2003 in biological anthropology with a designated emphasis in international nutrition. Following that I was fortunate to do a postdoc at the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University. From 2005-2007 I was a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health at the University of Michigan. In September 2007 I joined the Department of Anthropology at Emory University.
Click here for an updated list of several of my publications with abstracts
Courses Taught
ANT 201 Concepts and Methods in Biological Anthropology
ANT 311 Nutritional Anthropology
ANT 385 Introduction to Global Health
ANT 585 Biocultural approaches to food and nutrition
ANT 585 Demographic Anthropology (Spring 09)