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Zaneta Thayer is a biological anthropologist whose research program investigates how environments shape patterns of human biology and health. Her research addresses three broad themes (1) Racialized health inequities; (2) Developmental plasticity, evolution, and health; and (3) Maternal health and well-being. Together, these themes allow her to produce research o f interest to evolutionary anthropologists, public health professionals, and her study populations.
Anthropology
2023 Thayer, Z. M., Geisel-Zamora, S. A., Uwizeye, G., & Gildner, T. E. Childbirth fear in the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic: key predictors and associated birth outcomes. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 11(1), 101-111.
2023 Thayer, Z., Becares, L., Marks, E., Ly, K., & Walker, C. Maternal racism experience and cultural identity in relation to offspring telomere length. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 10458.
2020 Thayer, Z., Rutherford, J., & Kuzawa, C. The Maternal Nutritional Buffering Model: An evolutionary framework for pregnancy nutritional intervention. Evolution,
Medicine, and Public Health (1), 14–27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoz037
2019 Running Bear, U., Thayer, Z., Croy, C., Kaufman, C., & Manson, S. The impact of individual and parental American Indian boarding school attendance on chronic physical
health of Northern Plains Tribes. Family & Community Health, 42(1), 1–7. doi: 10.1097/fch.0000000000000205
2019 Conching, A and Z. Thayer. "Biological pathways for historical trauma to affect health: a conceptual model focusing on epigenetic modifications." Social Science & Medicine , 230:74-82.
2018 Thayer Z, Wilson MA, Kim AW, Jaeggi AV. "Impact of prenatal stress on offspring glucocorticoid levels: A phylogenetic meta-analysis across 14 vertebrate species." Scientific Reports 8(1):4942.
2017 Fox, M., Thayer., Z., and P. Wadhwa. "Acculturation and health: the moderating role of socio-cultural context" American Anthropologist 119(3): 405-421.
2017 Thayer, Z., Blair, I., Buchwald, D., and S. Manson. "Racial discrimination associated with higher diastolic blood pressure in a sample of American Indian adults." American Journal of Physical Anthropology : 163(1): 122-128.
2017 Wilson, M. and Z. Thayer. "Maternal Salivary Cortisone to Cortisol Ratio in Late Pregnancy: a Better Predictor of Offspring Birth Weight than Cortisol." Psychoneuroendocrinology 78: 10-13.
2017 Fox, M., Thayer, Z., and P. Wadhwa. "Conceptualization and operationalization of the construct of acculturation in minority health research . " Social Science & Medicine 176: 123-132.
2015 Thayer, Z.and A. Non. "Anthropology meets epigenetics: Current and future directions." American Anthropologist 117(4): 722-735.
2015 Thayer, Z and C. Kuzawa. "Ethnic Discrimination Predicts Poor Self Rated Health and Cortisol in Pregnancy: Insights from New Zealand." Social Science & Medicine 128: 36-42.
2014 Thayer, Z. and C. Kuzawa. "Intergenerational effects of maternal experience: Influence of SES on maternal and offspring stress physiology in New Zealand." American Journal of Human Biology 26(6): 723-730.