ISEMPH  is made possible by the contributions of its members to the work of its committees. For questions and offers to help, please contact the committee chairs.

Education and Outreach Committee

The ISEMPH Education Committee works to improve the teaching and learning of evolutionary medicine at all levels of education, with an emphasis on undergraduate and medical education. Anyone with an interest in educational aspects of evolutionary medicine is invited to become a member of the Committee.

Chair: Jay Labov, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (Retired) (since 2018)


Publications Committee:

Chair: Randolph Nesse, Arizona State University (since 2020)

  • Gillian Bentley, University of Durham, UK
  • Andrew Read, Pennsylvania, State University, USA
  • Grazyna Jasienska, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
  • James Bull, University of Texas Austin, USA
  • Jacobus (Koos) Boomsma, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Charles Nunn, former EMPH editor, Duke University
Ex-officio
  • Barbara Natterson-Horowitz (ISEMPH President) UCLA
  • Frank Ruhli (ISEMPH President Elect) University of Zurich
  • Cynthia Beall (EMPH Exec. Editor) Case Western Reserve University 


Communication Committee

The communications committee is primarily in charge of advertising ISEMPH events and maintaining social media accounts (on X and BlueSky). This involves designing visual and text elements. It also helps with certain aspects of conference organisation (on the communication side).

Chair: Adam Hunt (since 2020)


Future Venues Committee

The Future Venues Committee makes decisions and negotiates with potential hosts about venues for future ISEMPH annual meetings in consultation with the executive committee. We follow the established pattern of holding meetings in the USA or an international location in alternate years.

Chair: Gillian Bentley, Duke University, UK (since 2024)

  • Joe Alcock - Univ New Mexico (Emergency Med), USA
  • Alexandre Alvergne - (CNRS Montpellier) France
  • Gillian Bentley — Durham Univ (Anthropology), UK
  • Amy Boddy - Univ CA Santa Barbara (Anthropology), USA
  • Stephen Corbett - Western Sydney Local Health District, Australia
  • Fabio Zampieri - Univ of Padua (Dept of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health), Italy

Membership Committee

Chair: Vacant



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