The Laboratory supports research in international health, energetics and metabolism, exercise and fitness, stress and human health, growth and development, body composition, and human ecological immunology.  Lab members have conducted research in Russia, Kenya, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Samoa, the Philippines, and the U.S. 

• Culture change, stress, and immune function in (Western) Samoan adolescents

• Ecology of iron deficiency and immune function in northern Kenya
  
 
• Long-term effects of prenatal and postnatal environments on adolescent immunocompetence in the Philippines

• Development of minimally-invasive field methods for assessing immune function and health

• Influence of acculturation and lifestyle change on health and nutritional status of indigenous populations of lowland Bolivia

• Physiological adaptations to cold stress and the health consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union on indigenous Siberian populations