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Barrett, K. J., & Thompson, A. L. (2022). Infant eating behaviors and Milk feeding independently predict infant size. American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council34(4), e23678. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23678

Jahnke, J. R., Waldrop, J., Ledford, A., & Martinez, B. (2021). Uncovering Burdens, Examining Needs, and Shedding Assumptions of Evidence-Based Social Support Programs for Mothers: A Descriptive Qualitative Study in a Remote Community. Global qualitative nursing research8, 23333936211035747. https://doi.org/10.1177/23333936211035747

Jahnke, J. R., Roach, J., Azcarate-Peril, M. A., & Thompson, A. L. (2021). Maternal precarity and HPA axis functioning shape infant gut microbiota and HPA axis development in humans. PloS one16(5), e0251782. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251782

Jahnke, J. R., Houck, K. M., Bentley, M. E., & Thompson, A. L. (2019). Rising rates of cesarean delivery in Ecuador: Socioeconomic and institutional determinants over two decades. Birth (Berkeley, Calif.)46(2), 335–343. https://doi.org/10.1111/birt.12421

Jahnke JR, Terán E, Murgueitio F, Cabrera, H, Thompson AL. Maternal stress, placental 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2, and infant HPA axis development in humans: Psychosocial and physiological pathways. Placenta, 2021; 104, 179–187. doi:10.111/birt.12421 

Dennis, Alexis C., Esther Chung, Evans Lodge, Rae Anne Martinez, & Rachel E. Wilbur. (2021). Looking back to leap forward: a framework for operationalizing the structural racism construct in minority and immigrant health research. Ethnicity & Disease 31(1):301-310.

Griffin JS, Dent SC, Berger SM. Pathways linking activity, adiposity, and inflammation to bone mineral density in women and men from NHANES 2007 to 2010. Am J Hum Biol. 2021;e23583. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23583

Berger SM, Griffin JS, Dent SC. Phenotypes and pathways: Working toward an integrated skeletal biology in biological anthropology. Am J Hum Biol. 2020;e23450. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23450

Dent SC, Berger SM, Griffin JS. Biocultural pathways linking periodontal disease expression to food insecurity, immune dysregulation, and nutrition. Am J Hum Biol. 2020;e23549. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23549

Thompson AL, Houck K, Jahnke JR. Pathways linking Caesarean delivery to early health in a dual burden context: immune development and the gut microbiome in infants and children from Galapagos, Ecuador. Am J Hum Biol. 2019;31(2): e23219. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.23219

Wilbur, Rachel, Steven Corbett, Jeanne Drisko. (2016). Tuberculosis Morbidity at Haskell Institute, a Native American Youth Boarding School, 1910-1940: Impacts of Historical and Existing Social Determinants of Health. Annals of Anthropological Practice. 41(1): 35-40.

Wilbur, Rachel E., Jacob S. Griffin., Mark Sorensen, Robert D. Furberg. (2018). Establishing digital biomarkers for occupational health assessment in commercial salmon fishermen: a mixed-methods study design. JMIR Res Protoc. 7(12):e10215. doi: 10.2196/10215.

Dorsey AF, Thompson AL, Kleinman RE, et al. Iron and infection: An investigation of the Optimal Iron Hypothesis in Lima, Peru. Am J Hum Biol. 2018; 30(3): e23114. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.23114

Barrett KJ, Thompson AL, Bentley ME. The influence of maternal psychosocial characteristics on infant feeding styles. Appetite. 2016;103:396-402. doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2016.04.042

Wilbur, Rachel, Steven Corbett, Jeanne Drisko. (2016). Tuberculosis Morbidity at Haskell Institute, a Native American Youth Boarding School, 1910-1940: Impacts of Historical and Existing Social Determinants of Health. Annals of Anthropological Practice. 41(1): 35-40.

Houck K, Sorensen MV, Lu F, et al. The effects of market integration on childhood growth and nutritional status: the dual burden of under- and over-nutrition in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Am J Hum Biol. 2013;25(4):524–533. doi:10.1002/ajhb.22404  

Sorensen MV, Snodgrass JJ, Leonard WR, et al. Lifestyle incongruity, stress and immune function in indigenous Siberians: The health impacts of rapid social and economic change. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2009; 138(1):62-9. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.20899

Thompson AL, Monteagudo-Mera A, Cadenas MB, Lampl ML, Azcarate-Peril MA. Milk- and solid-feeding practices and daycare attendance are associated with differences in bacterial diversity, predominant communities, and metabolic and immune function of the infant gut microbiome. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2015;5:3. Published 2015 Feb 5. doi:10.3389/fcimb.2015.00003