Daniel Sellen MA, Ph.D
Professor, Departments of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology,
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Toronto

Ph: 416.978.8112
Fax: 416.978.3217
dan.sellen@utoronto.ca



Primary Affiliations:

• Departments of Anthropology and Nutritional Sciences
  and Dalla Lana School of Public Health   

Other Affiliations:

• Cross-Appointed Professor in Nutritional Sciences and Dalla Lana school of Public Health  

Education/Degrees:

• Ph.D. University of California, Davis,1995;
• M.A., University of Michigan, USA, 1989;
• B.A., Oxford University, 1987.  

Awards/Recognition:

• Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology (elected 2010);
• Canada Research Chair in Human Ecology and Public Nutrition (2004-2014).

Research:

• Community based maternal, neonatal and child nutrition and health program design and and assessment; strategies to protect, promote and support of infant and young child feeding (IYCF); human ecology of young child feeding and care-giving practices; food insecurity and sustainable livelihoods; application of human ecology and evolutionary/medical anthropology to global public health nutrition.               

Current Students:  

PhD supervisor:
• Laura Anderson
• Iulia Badescu (Anthropology)
• Allison Amin
• Kristy Hackett
• Megan Lynch (Public Health

PhD co-supervisor:
• Lauren Classen
• Michael Callaghan (Anthropology)

PhD Committee:
• Sohana Shafique (Nutritional Sciences)
• Katie MacIsaak (Public Health)
• Michael Reid
• Abigail Ross (Anthropology)
• Luseadra McKerracher (Simon Fraser University)
• Samwel Mbugua (Human Nutrition, Egerton University, Kenya)
• MSc: Jacinta Njambi (Psychology, Egerton University, Kenya).

Recent Publications:                                                   

• Sellen, D. W. Evolution of infant and young child feeding: Implications for contemporary public health. Annual Review of Nutrition, 27:123-147, 2007.
  
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