Kyle Wiley

Kyle Wiley is a human biologist and biological anthropologist interested in the contribution of social, political, and traumatic stressors to disparities in maternal and child health during the perinatal and early postpartum periods in the United States and Brazil. He completed his PhD in Anthropology from Yale University in 2020 and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2023. He uses biosocial approaches to investigate how these factors interact with biological processes to shape patterns of health disparities, particularly among Latina/os influence the risk of adverse pregnancy, postpartum, maternal, and infant health and developmental outcomes. He is interested in research on mechanisms of embodiment and the intergenerational consequences of stress, including epigenetics, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function, inflammation and immunoregulation, the microbiome, and cardiovascular physiology. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.