Alex Ezeh: How well do Demographic Transition Models capture 21st Century experiences of non-European societies?

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Alex Ezeh is Dornsife Professor of Global Health at the Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University.  Dr. Ezeh’s work focuses on urban health, population change, and models to strengthen knowledge-based institutions. Previously, he served as the founding Executive Director of the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and led APHRC to become one of ... Read more

Sharon DeWitte: Childhood nutritional stress and later-life health outcomes in medieval England: evidence from incremental dentine analysis

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Dr. DeWitte is a biological anthropologist with research specialties in bioarchaeology, paleoepidemiology, and paleodemography. She engages in the reconstruction of life, health, disease, and demography in the past using assemblages of human skeletal remains. Her research examines the biological, environmental, economic, and social factors that affect and interact with variation in health and mortality; the ecology, ... Read more