#  Dr. James Broesch 

Director of Science and System Performance

 

 

 



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My theoretical interests are in empirically examining predictions from cultural transmission theory to determine their validity explaining patterns of cultural transmission in the real-world. I am also interested in how cultural transmission theory might inform and aid in the diffusion of public-health interventions through the recruitment of individuals that occupy key structural roles within local social networks.

I received my B.S. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where I studied the impact of limb morphology changes on the energetic costs of human locomotion. After finishing my undergraduate degree, I spent 1 year studying juvenile development and social learning among non-captive white-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica. I have conducted ethnographic field work in Bolivia among the Tsimane', and among indigenous Fijians in both the Yasawa and Moala groups of the Fiji Islands.

*Dr. James Broesch received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Emory University. Dr. James Broesch is now the Director of Science and System Performance at Nova Scotia Health Authority.*



 

 

 





 

 

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