HENGE

Professor C.G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor

 

 

Research interest:

My own field of research of Human Population Biology and Health is a transdisciplinary subject which recognises that human populations & cultures and their disease profiles cannot be understood simply through biological or social processes, but that an integrated approach combining the social & natural sciences are likely to provide the most comprehensive understanding. 

 

I work primarily on neglected tropical diseases and on how worm infestation impedes nutrition, growth, reproduction and health with fieldwork in Africa, Asia and UK. Initially I worked on Schistosomiasis in the Sudan, and since 1988, in Bangladesh, on geohelminths and more recently Filariasis. I am also interested in sound statistical analyses and for over ten years I ran annual data handling courses with the Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory in a number of African countries including, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Tanzania, and subsequently in Bangladesh and Japan with support from DFID, The World Bank and JICA.

 

I am also interested in the impact of migration and mating patterns in modifying the structure of human populations and I have used longitudinal cohort studies to show that  both random and selective migration occur with different end products.

 

Publications:

• Research articles

-	2010-2004
-	2003-1998
-	1997-1993
-	1992-1986
-	1985-1972

• Books and Special issues

-- coming soon! --

 

Mascie-Taylor CGN & Rosetta L, 'Reproduction and Adaptation', Cambridge University Press. [You can find the abstract here.]

 

• Chapters