Megan Brickley holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the Bioarchaeology of Human Disease in the Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Canada. A world expert on past metabolic bone disease, she is lead author of both editions of the key text, The Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Bone Disease. Professor Brickley is best known for her work on vitamin D deficiency; she led the largest paleopathological investigation to date – over 3500 Roman skeletons. Her team developed a ground-breaking method for identifying dental changes indicative of vitamin D deficiency, opening the possibility of determining long-term trends in a condition still pertinent today. More recently, she has undertaken ground-breaking investigations of disease co-occurrence and anemia with work on the biological mechanisms involved in skeletal changes establishing a firm foundation for further reserach. The meeting will feature initial findings from her latest collaborative project on the diet-disease nexus in human health and disease.
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