STEPHEN MCGARVEY

Dr. McGarvey is concerned with issues of human population biology and international health, specifically modernization-related induced socio-economic and behavioral changes, gene by environment interactions on cardiovascular disease risk factors, tropical parasitology and child nutritional status and health, and environmental issues. His research involves developing-world countries such as Samoa, the Philippines, South Africa and Ghana.

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Biography

Stephen McGarvey is the Director of the International Health Institute and Professor of Epidemiology. 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. McGarvey earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Pennsylvania State University in 1980, and an M.P.H. in Epidemiology from Yale University. McGarvey is concerned with issues of human population biology and international 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, the Philippines, and Ghana.

Curricum Vitae

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STEPHEN MCGARVEY, PHD, MPH
Professor of Epidemiology and Anthropology
Epidemiology
Phone: +1 401 863 1354
E-mail: Stephen_McGarvey@Brown.EDU

Stephen McGarvey's Brown Research URL:
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Stephen_McGarvey

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Collaborators at other institutions:
Daniel E Weeks, University of Pittsburgh
Ranjan Deka, University of Cincinnati
Ana Baylin, University of Michigan

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