Applications are currently being accepted for the Fall 2000 semester. Introduction Biological anthropology is undergoing rapid and significant change as we enter the 21st century. Biological anthropologists are developing broader interests beyond traditional themes in academic departments of anthropology, and finding new job opportunities in and outside of academia. Biological anthropology draws its students from a wide variety of disciplines that include the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities.
Biomedical anthropology is an emerging subdisciplinary area of biological anthropology.
It represents the interface between biomedicine and the behavioral and social sciences that shapes health status. As such, it does more than give lip service to integrating cross-disciplinary approaches. Biomedical anthropology emphasizes biomedical, biobehavioral and epidemiological approaches to understanding the transmission and dissemination of disease and the cellular and molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis and the dynamic interaction of biological and sociocultural factors that shape health outcome. The program includes field and wet laboratory-based research training. Anthropology can provide biomedicine with the best multidisciplinary-trained individuals who bridge the social, behavioral, biological and medical sciences.