craig hadley
Office: Cabinet 305-3
email: Craig_Hadley@brown.edu
Background:Hadley came to the PSTC in 2004 as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow. He received his BS from University of Utah in Anthropology, and his PhD in Biological Anthropology and International Nutrition in September 2003 from the University of California, Davis. He received dissertation fellowship support from the University of California, Davis, NSF, and the Gifford Center, which supports the study of population and health.
Research Interests:
Hadley's research interests include biological anthropology, behavioral ecology, and nutritional anthropology; specifically, the causes and consequences of household food insecurity, the causes and consequences of current variation in young child feeding practices, and biosocial approaches to understanding the causes of health inequalities, with an emphasis on young children.
Current Research:
Hadley's current research focuses on population health, especially on household food insecurity and infant and child feeding practices. He is currently the PI on two projects and involved in a third. Please contact him if you would like more information on these projects.
"Childcare in challenging environments - Food security and child feeding practices in rural Tanzania - A prospective study"A primary aim of this research, which began as dissertation research, is to examine the influence of seasonal household food insecurity on maternal and child health among two different ethnic groups in a rural agricultural village in Tanzania. A second objective is to explore between-group differences in infant and child feeding practices, and explore the cultural and economic causes of these differences, and their impact on child growth. Methods of data collection include focus groups, surveys, and anthropometric measures. A key result to emerge thus far is that all children grow more poorly in the "hunger" season, although this is not related to household food insecurity. It instead suggests that household-level coping mechanisms are adequate to buffer children from food insecurity, but not from the greater prevalence of disease in this season. Another key finding is that large between-ethnic group differences in children's growth are strongly associated with different infant and child feeding practices, and focus groups revealed very different attitudes towards the proper time of introduction of non-breastmilk food items. Hadley is the PI on this project and is responsible for all aspects of design, analysis, and writing-up of results
"Dietary practices and household food insecurity among recently arrived Liberian refugees"
The primary aims of this pilot research are to assess the prevalence of household food insecurity and obesity among recently resettled refugees in the USA. Secondary objectives are to assess dietary intake and factors influencing poor dietary intake, food insecurity, and obesity. Hadley is the sole investigator on this project, and therefore is involved in all aspects of design, analysis, and writing-up of results. This project is funded by the USDA.
"A study of the adolescent life course in Jimma zone, Ethiopia"
This longitudinal study investigates key transitions in the adolescent life course among a diverse sample of 2,100 adolescents living in southwest Ethiopia. Primary objectives are to better understand key life course transitions, and predictors of these transitions, including the transition out of school, into and out of employment, into parenthood, and into and out of states of good health. This is a collaborative project with Jimma University. Hadley has been involved in all aspects of study and sample design. He has spent extensive amounts of time in Ethiopia working closely with colleagues at Jimma University in the planning and execution of this unique project.
The Brown University and Ethiopia Partnership WebsiteOther field experience:
Research assistant Meriam Ethnographic Research Project. Principal investigator Eric Smith (with Rebecca Bliege Bird and Doug Bird).Selected recent publications and working papers:
Hadley, C. Forthcoming. Kin networks and children's health and nutritional status: Evidence of a relationship in a Tanzanian horticultural population. Human Nature.
Hadley, C. Forthcoming. Ethnic expansions and between-group differences in children's health: A case study from the Rukwa valley, Tanzania. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Hadley, C. Forthcoming. Is polygyny a risk factor for poor child growth performance? American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Paciotti, B and Hadley, C. Forthcoming. Large-Scale Cooperation among Sungusungu "Vigilantes" of Tanzania: Conceptualizing Micro-economic and Institutional Approaches. In: Socioeconomic aspects of human behavioral ecology. Editor: M. Alvard. Research in Economic Anthropology, Volume 23.
Paciotti, B. & C. Hadley. 2003. The ultimatum game in southwestern Tanzania: Ethnic variation and institutional scope. Current Anthropology 44, 427-432.
Heath, K.M. & C. Hadley. 1998. Dichotomous male reproductive strategies in a polygynous human society: Mating versus parental effort. Current Anthropology 39, 369-374.
Hadley, C. and M. Borgerhoff Mulder. 2004. Maternal energy status during pregnancy and birth outcomes in Tanzania. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.123 (S38):105.
Hadley, C. nd. Child hunger among recently resettled Liberian refugees living in the US:
Results of a pilot study.
