Sera L. Young

Dr. Sera Young in a nutritional anthropologist who works on maternal and child nutrition in low-resource settings. She has received degrees in anthropology from the University of Michigan (BA), medical anthropology from the University of Amsterdam (MA), and international nutrition from Cornell University (PhD). She conducted post-doctoral work at UC Davis and UC San Francisco on reducing the maternal to child transmission of HIV in Africa. Her current research focuses on learning adaptive responses to challenges during pregnancy and lactation in low-resource settings, with field sites in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and Mozambique. She has held faculty and fellowship positions at University of California Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC San Francisco; in 2011 she returned to Cornell as faculty member of the Division of Nutritional Sciences. She has been recognized with numerous awards, including most recently the 2013 Margaret Mead Award for her book "Craving Earth".

She lives in Ithaca, NY with her husband, Julius Lucks who is also a faculty member at Cornell, and her two daughters, Stella and Aurora. For more about her work and research group, visit www.serayoung.org.