This week, Dr. Peter Collings will lead our journal club discussion of a recent article by anthropologist-epidemiologist James Trostle and colleagues:

Trostle, J. A., Hubbard, A., Scott, J., Cevallos, W., Bates, S. J., & Eisenberg, J. N. S. (2008). Raising the level of analysis of food-borne outbreaks: Food-sharing networks in rural coastal Ecuador. Epidemiology, 19(3), 384-390.

Earlier this semester we speculated about how social network analysis could shed light on global changes in infectious disease. This article takes up that issue with a study of food-sharing networks in 21 villages in northern coastal Ecuador. It also extends our discussion about cross-fertilization of methods and theory between anthropology and epidemiology.

As usual the PDF is available on the journal club page. We will meet at 11:45 a.m. in 1350 Turlington (Diaspora Room).