# Chris Kuzawa Principal Investigator ![Chris Kuzawa](/sites/g/files/omnuum13301/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2026-08/Kuzawa%20headshot.jpg?h=d9e28abe&itok=oKkac3I9) email Chris Kuzawa (he/him) is a human biologist and biological anthropologist with training in cardiovascular epidemiology. His group’s research explores developmental influences on adult biology and health, the psychobiology of human fatherhood, non-genetic forms of biological inheritance, and the energetics and evolution of the human brain. Kuzawa’s work also addresses the history and misuse of race concepts in anthropology and beyond. An elected member of the US [National Academy of Sciences](http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20041800.html) and the [American Academy of Arts and Sciences](https://www.amacad.org/person/christopher-w-kuzawa), Kuzawa received his PhD in Anthropology and MSPH in Epidemiology from Emory University. He relocated to Harvard in 2025 from Northwestern University, where he was John D. MacArthur Professor of Anthropology, a founding member of Cells 2 Society: The Center on Social Disparities and Health, a Faculty Fellow with the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, and co-director of the Health Inequality Network of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group. Kuzawa sits on the board of reviewing editors for *Science* magazine, the scientific advisory board for the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and the editorial boards of the *American Journal of Human Biology*, *Annals of Human Biology*, *Adaptive Human Physiology and Behavior*, and *Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health*. - ## Person Categories [Current Group Members](/person-categories/current-group-members) - ## Affiliation [Harvard University](/affiliation/harvard-university)