Fatimah Jackson (UNC Chapel Hill)
Professor of Biological Anthropology and Director of the Institute of African-American Research. Dr. Jackson’s research has focused human metabolic and genomic effects of exposure to plant allelochemicals, genomic models of biological diversity in contemporary and historic African peoples, and bioanthropological perspectives on human disease (especially infectious diseases). In 2000, she cofounded the first human DNA bank on the African continent.
Address:Department of Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill, CB #3115, 301 Alumni Building, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115
fax: 919-962-1613
email: fatimahj@email.unc.edu
