Ithaca College

 Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology, David Turkon, attended the 9th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD), in Cape Town, South Africa. David’s research was presented in a paper, “Exposure to Food Insecurity During Critical Developmental Phases: Using  DOHaD and Syndemics to Disentangle Environmental Exposures and Epigenetic Processes,” that was co-authored with his colleague David Himmelgreen from the University of South Florida. 

 David is participating in a DOHaD study that will begin collecting data in early 2017, pending final funding. The study will examine the development of a cohort of rural South African children from 19 weeks gestation through 20 years of age, tracking development in multiple areas such as psychological, nutritional health, epigenetic and much more.  Using concepts from social network analysis, David is providing a measurable basis for comparative analysis of how the strength of social connectedness affects measures in other areas of the study.