Sausage of Science 183: Paula Tallman discusses water insecurity and gender-based violence

Welcome Sausage of Science's newest host Dr. Mallika S. Sarma! Mallika joins Chris as co-host while Cara is out on sabbatical. In this episode, Mallika and Chris chat with Dr. Paula Tallman about several aspects of water insecurity, notably an important overlap with gender-based violence. Dr. Paula Skye Tallman is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Loyola University Chicago. Her research examines the drivers of health inequities among marginalized populations in South America and Southeast Asia, with a focus on connecting this scholarship to environmental and social policy. Dr. Tallman received her B.A. in Behavioral Biology from Johns Hopkins University, her Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Northwestern University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship focused on indigenous well-being and conservation at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Her recent publications discussed on the show can be found at the following links, titled: Water insecurity, self-reported physical health, and objective measures of biological health in the Peruvian Amazon https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23805 Water insecurity and mental health in the Amazon: Economic and ecological drivers of distress https://doi.org/10.1002/sea2.12144 -------------------- Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: [email protected], Twitter:@Chris_Ly Mallika Sarma, Website: https://mallikasarma.com/ Eric Griffith, HBA Junior Fellow, SoS producer: E-mail: [email protected]