B. Natterson-Horowitz

Lecturer
Lecturer, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, UCLA School of Medicine
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Peabody Museum, Room 4711 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
natterson-horowitz@fas.harvard.edu
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Dr. B. Natterson-Horowitz is a cardiologist and evolutionary biologist who researches adaptations across the animal kingdom to find solutions to human health challenges. A faculty member at Harvard Medical School and Harvard's Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, she was the founding Chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Board on Animal Health Sciences, Conservation, and Research. She is a New York Times–bestselling, award-winning author (Zoobiquity and Wildhood) and a past president of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. She completed undergraduate and master's degrees at Harvard and went on to earn an M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco, and a Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology from UCLA.