Public Health Brown Bag Discussion with Dr. Tim Bromage
Venue: Shanks Hall (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Thursday, November 7, 2013
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

Description:
The Virginia Tech Center for Public Health Practice and Research presents a public health brown bag discussion with Dr. Tim Bromage of NYU on Thursday, November 7th in Shanks Hall rooms 370-380.

Dr. Bromage's lecture is titled "Avoid Infection, and While You’re At It, Have a Demographic Transition". The presentation will discuss the dynamic inter-connections between infectious disease prevalence, birth rates, and gross national product, with implications for biological adaptations, human cultures, and policies.

Tim Bromage, a paleoanthropologist, is professor of biomaterials and biomimetics at NYUCD and director of the Hard Tissue Research Unit. His research focuses on human evolution and growth and development, with emphasis on the biology of bones and teeth as windows into life history. He conducts fieldwork principally in Malawi, where he examines both modern and early human dental and skeletal development to draw inferences concerning relationships between human biology and the environment. He has recently discovered a new biological clock while observing incremental growth lines in tooth enamel, hypothesized to regulate many metabolic functions.

For more information, visit: http://www.pbk.org/programs/displayscholars.aspx?id=45

The lecture is co-sponsored by the The Phi Beta Kappa Mu of Virginia Chapter.

For more information, visit: http://www.calendar.vt.edu/main.php?view=event&eventid=1381523050156 or contact Kirby Deater-Deckard at 540-231-0973.

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