Jason Decaro
Associate Professor
anthropology
The University of Alabama
United States of America
Biography
Jason A. DeCaro, PhD, Associate Professor of Anthropology, is the director of DEHB. Dr. DeCaro's primary areas of research interest concern the intersections of cognitive, ecocultural, and biological anthropology, with special foci on child growth & development, stress, and physical activity. Dr. DeCaro has been recognized by the University of Alabama through the 2015 President's Faculty Research Award for the Social Sciences.
Research Interest
Human development across the lifecourse Biocultural medical and psychological anthropology Human evolutionary biology Social epidemiology East Africa, Central America, USA
Publications
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Jason A. Decaro (2015) Beyond catecholamines: Measuring autonomic responses to psychosocial context.American Journal of Human Biology
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Jason A. Decaro (2015) Household-level predictors of maternal mental health and systemic inflammation among infants in Mwanza, Tanzania. American Journal of Human Biology.
