Sean Prall

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at UCLA with a focus on health and reproductive decision-making. I am the co-director of the Kunene Rural Health and Demography Project, based in rural Namibia, where I have worked since 2016. I am currently the PI of a project, jointly funded by NSF and the SSRC, to examine individual, economic, and cultural factors that mediate vaccination decisions in Namibia. My work employs a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, including anthropometrics, demography, endocrinology, actigraphy, surveys and interviews, and dyadic peer ratings. In combining these methods, I aim to develop a more holistic picture of health behavior. In addition to my work in Namibia, I am a contributor to the NSF-funded ENDOW project on cross-cultural inequality, and a collaborator on the Shodagor Longitudinal Health and Demography Project in Bangladesh. I am also a board member of the One Pencil Project, a non-profit focused on health and education in the Kunene.