Craig Hadley



    I am now at the Department of Anthropology at Emory University.

    1557 Dickey Drive, Anthropology Bldg

    Atlanta, GA 30322

    P: 404.727.5248

    E: chadley [at] emory [dot] edu

    http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~chadley/

My research broadly centers on the social and cultural production of health and lies at the intersection of anthropology, public health nutrition, and population health. Current research focuses on the socioecological correlates of sub-optimal child growth performance, food insecurity, and on common mental health disorders in Tanzania and Ethiopia. The Tanzania work is being carried out with Dr. Crystal Patil at the University of South Florida, and Dr. Borgerhoff Mulder at the University of California, Davis. Information on our study site in Tanzania can be found here. This work is motivated in part by increasing recognition that common mental health disorders are important contributors to the burden of illness in developing countries.

I am also examining the social and cultural correlates of food insecurity in several different study sites, with a focus on exploring how uncertain and unpredictable household environments influence physical and mental health. Much of this work is motivated by the observations that food insecurity and hunger are increasing in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, 850 million people go to bed hungry each night, and food insecurity and hunger are responsible for more deaths each year than TB, malaria, and HIV/AIDS, combined.

Elsewhere I am looking at the social determinants of nutritional status among adolescents living in Ethiopia. In this same study of youth we are assessing knowledge and attitudes towards child feeding behavior. Information on our study of youths in Ethiopia can be found here. Much of this work is motivated by the demographic observation that there are now more adolescents than at any other point in the history of the world. Despite these demographic realities, we know very little about health and well-being among this age group in international settings.

I am also working on issues related to immigration, particularly issues related to refugee health and adaptation.

I received my PhD at the end of 2003 from the University of California, Davis in anthropology with a designated emphasis in international nutrition. Following that I was fortunate to do a postdoc at the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University. Currently I am a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health. In September 2007 I will join the Department of Anthropology at Emory University.

Some papers & other works:

Hadley, C. Identifying vulnerable households: What works better: Child undernutrition or experienced based measures of insecurity?

Hadley, C., et al.. Exposure to stressful life events and adult anxiety-mood disorders as determinants of children’s social, motor, and language development in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Hadley et al.. Food insecurity, stressful events and common mental health disorders in rural Ethiopia.

Patil, C., Hadley, C., and Nayo, P.. Unpacking dietary acculturation among African refugees

Hadley, C., Lindstrom, D., Tessema, F., Belachew, T. Submitted. Gender bias in the food insecurity experience of Ethiopian adolescents.

Hadley, C., Lindstrom, D., Tessema, F., Belachew, T. Submitted. Ethiopian adolescent girls’ attitudes toward infant and child feeding practices: implications for adolescent reproductive health programs.

Hadley, C. and C. Patil. Submitted. Seasonal food insecurity and women’s symptoms of anxiety and depression.

C. Hadley, Galea, S. Nandi, V., Nandi, A. Lopez, G., and Stragone. In press. Food Insufficiency and Health among Undocumented Mexican Migrants in a US Urban Area. Public Health Nutrition.

Patil. C. and C. Hadley. Social support and dietary intake: Evidence and application. Anthropology News. January 2007.

Galea S and C. Hadley, and S. Rudenstein. Context and consequences of disasters: A population health perspective. American Journal of Disaster Medicine Nov/Dec., 2007.

Hadley, C., Sellen, D., and A. Zodhiates. Acculturation, economics, and food security among recently arrived immigrants: The case of West African refugees. Public Health Nutrition. 2007 10(4): 405-412.

Galea S, Hadley C. Public Health Preparedness for Disasters: An ecologic perspective. ed. S Sheinfeld Gorin, J Arnold. Health promotion and practice. San Francisco, CA: Josey Bass; 2006. pp. 427-444.

Hadley, C. and D. Sellen. 2006. Food insecurity and child hunger among recently resettled African refugees in the USA. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 8(4):369-75.

Hadley, C. and C. Patil. . Food insecurity in rural Tanzania is associated with maternal anxiety and depression. American Journal of Human Biology. 2006 May-Jun;18(3):359-68.

Hadley, C. 2005. Ethnic expansions and between-group differences in children’s health: A case study from the Rukwa valley, Tanzania. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.128: 682-92.

Hadley, C. 2005. Is polygyny a risk factor for poor child growth performance? American Journal of Physical Anthropology 12, 24:471-80.