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

Puspa is an undergraduate member of the AHDS Lab majoring in Anthropology & Molecular and Cellular Biology. Her research interests focus on understanding social and environmental determinants of maternal health, and her work in the AHDS Lab seeks to address how climatic stressors and extreme environmental exposures impact maternal and child outcomes.

Gayatri (she/her) is a Vanderbilt alum, affiliate of the AHDS Lab, and an 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, and 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. Her current work with the AHDS lab is focused on understanding the socioecology of pregnancy planning and intendedness in diverse populations, emphasizing the importance of resisting heteropatriarchal generalizations about conception and desire.