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# Charles L Nunn

Gosnell Family Professor in Global Health
Evolutionary Anthropology
clnunn@duke.edu
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## Research Interests

Charles Nunn addresses a wide range of questions at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and health. These include projects on infectious disease, evolutionary medicine, and the ecology and evolution of sleep.

Many of Nunn’s research projects involve large-scale informatics datasets, including phylogenetic comparative studies and meta-analyses. Other projects involve field research in rural Madagascar. Yet other projects aim to model ecological or evolutionary phenomena, such as disease transmission. All of the projects involve quantitative approaches rooted in phylogenetics, networks, epidemiology, and spatial analyses.

Nunn’s research has implications for human health, conservation of biodiversity, and the connections between humans, animals and the environment (One Health). His research also informs studies of human evolution.
Research support for activities in the Nunn Lab is provided by the NIH, NSF, and other funding agencies.

## Selected Grants

### US-Israel Collab: Market Integration, Land Use, and Pathogen Transmission in Rural Madagascar

Research Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2028

### Risk factor analysis and dynamic response for epidemics in heterogeneous populations

Research Co-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2027

### Doctoral Dissertation Research: Human mobility and infectious disease transmission in the context of market integration

Inst. Training Prgm or CME Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2026

### Does market integration contribute to the burden of cardiovascular disease in northeast Madagascar?

Research Principal Investigator · Awarded by Sigma Xi · 2024 - 2024

### The Impact of Land Use Change on Transmission Potential Networks and Disease Spread in Rural Madagascar

Research Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2024

### US-Israel Collab: Market Integration, Land Use, and Pathogen Transmission in Rural Madagascar

Research Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2028

### Risk factor analysis and dynamic response for epidemics in heterogeneous populations

Research Co-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2027

### Doctoral Dissertation Research: Human mobility and infectious disease transmission in the context of market integration

Inst. Training Prgm or CME Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2026

### Does market integration contribute to the burden of cardiovascular disease in northeast Madagascar?

Research Principal Investigator · Awarded by Sigma Xi · 2024 - 2024

### The Impact of Land Use Change on Transmission Potential Networks and Disease Spread in Rural Madagascar

Research Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2024

### PIPP Phase I

Research Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2024

### Evolutionary Medicine summer Institute

Conference Principal Investigator · Awarded by Burroughs Wellcome Fund · 2022 - 2022

### Evolutionary Medicine Summer Institute (EMSI)

Conference Principal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2022 - 2022

### Evolutionary Medicine Summer Institute (EMSI) 2020

Conference Principal Investigator · Awarded by Burroughs Wellcome Fund · 2020 - 2020

### Evolutionary Medicine Summer Institute

Conference Principal Investigator · Awarded by American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation · 2019 - 2019

### One Health Innovation Fellowships for Zoonotic Disease Research in Mongolia

Inst. Training Prgm or CME Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2013 - 2019

### Doctoral Dissertation Research: Drought, Dehydration, and Disease: Water as a Selective Pressure in the Evolution of Primate Behavior

Inst. Training Prgm or CME Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2016 - 2019

### Collaborative Research: The Role of Watering Holes in Concentrating Parasites in a Changing Climate

Research Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2016 - 2019

### 2018 Evolutionary Medicine Summer Institute Workshop

Conference Principal Investigator · Awarded by Burroughs Wellcome Fund · 2018 - 2018

### A Cleanup for Survival: Effects of Tourist Waste Management on Gelada Monkey Health in the Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia

Inst. Training Prgm or CME Principal Investigator · Awarded by Primate Conservation, Inc. · 2016 - 2018

### Mining the Gaps: Integrating Primate Comparative Biology and Human Evolution

Research Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2014 - 2018

### TriCEM Showcase

Conference Principal Investigator · Awarded by Burroughs Wellcome Fund · 2017 - 2018

### Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine (TriCEM) Showcase

Conference Principal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2017 - 2018

### Impacts of Water Scarcity on the Behavior of Red-Fronted lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons) in Western Madagascar

Research Principal Investigator · Awarded by Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation · 2016 - 2017

### Impacts of Water Scarcity on the Behavior of Red-fronted Lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons) in Western Madagascar

Research Principal Investigator · Awarded by Primate Conservation, Inc. · 2016 - 2017

### Drivers of Disease in Primates: The Case of the Bulging Parasitic Cysts in Gelada Monkeys (Theropithecus gelada)

Inst. Training Prgm or CME Principal Investigator · Awarded by Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation · 2014 - 2017

### Predator and Parasite: How Predator Distribution and Host Susceptibility Shape Patterns of Tapeworm-induced Disease in Gelada Monkeys (Theropithecus gelada).

Fellowship Principal Investigator · Awarded by Nacey Maggioncalda Foundation · 2014 - 2017

### Annual Meeting of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health

Conference Principal Investigator · Awarded by Burroughs Wellcome Fund · 2016 - 2016

### Annual Meeting of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health

Conference Principal Investigator · Awarded by American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation · 2016 - 2016

### Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine

Research Principal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - General Administration · 2015 - 2016

### Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Comparative Study of Primate Socioecology and Intersexual Conflict

Research Co-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1997 - 1999