2011 Specialist Meeting—Future Directions in Spatial Demography
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DANIEL PARKER
Biological Anthropology and Demography
Penn State University
Email: dmp336@psu.edu
Daniel Parker is currently in his third year of graduate study, working toward a dual degree in
Biological Anthropology and Demography. His research interests are in population health,
environment-population interactions, and human migration. He tends to focus on neglected diseases
and populations that are underrepresented in population health research. His dissertation research
looks at migration and malaria in Southeast Asia; his research population consists of migrant
indigenous peoples along the Thailand-Myanmar border. The area is an epicenter for multi-drug
resistant malaria, making the epidemiology of this region important for much of the world. These
research interests lend themselves well to temporal and spatial modeling. His undergraduate honor’s
thesis used event history analysis to model dengue fever outbreaks; his master’s paper used
generalized linear models and point pattern analysis to evaluate climate-mortality interactions; and
his my dissertation research will incorporate novel methods for explicitly specifying both time and
space in malaria epidemiology. Parker is a member of the Population Association of America, the
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the American Association of Physical
Anthropology; he enjoys multi-disciplinary collaboration.