Professor Ana Magdalena Hurtado

Ana Magdalena Hurtado is a professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and Affiliate Faculty member of the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation. In 1991, with funding from William T Grant career, she completed career development training in epidemiology at the School of Public Health, University of Michigan. After fifteen years of postdoctoral fieldwork, and faculty appointments at Emory University and the University of New Mexico, Hurtado moved to ASU to help build the first anthropology-based Global Health program. In 2012, Hurtado was inducted as fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She works on mortality reduction mechanisms in humans with emphasis on niche construction and on the ontology of regenerative population health. This work builds on decades of teaching interdisciplinary courses in anthropology and epidemiology and research on human ecology, cultural, immunological and epidemiological phenomena among Aché and Hiwi hunter-gatherers, and Machiguenga trekkers of Latin America.