Members & Affiliates
Monica H. Keith, PhD
Dr. Keith (she/her) is the Director/PI of the AHDS Lab at Vanderbilt where she is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
Contact her at: monica.h.keith@vanderbilt.edu
Taylor Harman, PhD
Taylor is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the AHDS Lab and holds a PhD in Anthropology from Syracuse University. Taylor's research focuses on the human body's response to environmental and social stressors. Her doctoral work characterized and compared the adaptive responses of Andeans and Tibetans, who have long histories of residence at high altitudes. In the AHDS lab, the scope of her research has expanded to include direct measures of human health, including maternal and infant health outcomes related to pregnancy planning and family socioecology, as well as physiological responses to climate change among at-risk communities.
Personal website: https://taylorharman.mystrikingly.com/
Contact her at: taylor.harman@vanderbilt.edu
Rosseirys (Ro) De La Rosa
Ro (she/her) is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and affiliate in the AHDS Lab. Her research focuses on mechanisms of biocultural flourishing among Black communities in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean (particularly Puerto Rico) by exploring relationships between stress biomarkers, epigenetic processes, and their impacts on health outcomes. Ro is also a member of the GABS Lab at Vanderbilt, and her work in the AHDS Lab aims to examine the role of social support on women's health outcomes.
Contact her at: rosseirys.de.la.rosa@vanderbilt.edu
Arie Moussougan
Arie (she/her) is an undergraduate member of the AHDS Lab and a fourth-year student studying Medicine, Health, & Society and Data Science at Vanderbilt. Arie has a deep interest in utilizing data science and statistical analysis to contribute to knowledge of health disparities in Black, LGBTQ+ and other marginalized populations. Her work in the AHDS Lab is focused on modeling variation in infant and early child growth among subsistence-based populations who are increasingly impacted by climate change and extreme environmental exposures.
Milani Naik
Milani (she/her) is an undergraduate member of the AHDS Lab majoring in Medicine, Health, & Society with a minor in Data Science at Vanderbilt. Her academic interests focus on exploring community-based strategies to address health disparities and investigating how art and visual expression can foster collective action. Her work in the AHDS Lab aims to assess the impacts of social support on maternal health outcomes.
Gayatri Aluri
Gayatri is a Vanderbilt alum and aspiring maternal and child health clinician-researcher. Her research interests lie in the intersections of birth and sexual health equity, gendered and racialized disparities in health and wellbeing, social movements, care work, and models of care. She is especially passionate about investigating the role of Reproductive Justice in improving structural and health outcomes in minoritized communities, and her current work with the AHDS lab is focused on understanding the socioecology of pregnancy planning in diverse populations.
