Three common assumptions about inflammation and aging that are probably wrong

Speaker Details:

Thomas McDade

Carlos Montezuma Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University

Bio:

Thomas McDade, PhD, is the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Anthropology and Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.  He is also co-director of the Child and Brain Development program, funded by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.  He is a biological anthropologist and population health scientist, and has conducted research on how social and ecological contexts shape human biology and health in diverse community-based settings around the world, including Bolivia, Ecuador, Kenya, Mexico, Samoa, the Philippines, as well as the US and Canada.  Much of this work focuses on the developmental origins of social inequities in health, and advancing understanding of the complex associations among environments, inflammation, and disease over the life course.  The development and application of minimally-invasive biomarker methods for studying human physiology and health in non-clinical settings has been central to this effort.  McDade’s work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and he was a 2002 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).  In 2021 he was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in the National Academy of Sciences.

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