Susan B Schaffnit

Biographic Data

ID3771011
NAMESusan B Schaffnit
GIVEN NAMESSusan B
FAMILY NAMESchaffnit
SIGNATURESCHAFFNIT S B
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Population Health London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Keppel Street WC1E 7HT United Kingdom
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS25
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Children's Caregiving and Growth in Northwestern Tanzania

    Open AccessAnushé Hassan, D W Lawson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2025

    Receiving care from individuals other than one's mother (i.e., allomothering) is a universal aspect of raising children, but whether and how such care impacts children's health remains subject to debate. Existing studies in low‐income societies largely use broad proxies for caregiving behaviors rather than measuring childcare activities, which may mask variation in allomothering and, thus, its impact on children's health. Using data collected to …

  • Religious women receive more allomaternal support from non-partner kin in two low-fertility countries

    Open AccessL Spake, B Schaffnit et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2024

  • Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations

    Open AccessElic M Weitzel, Kathleen M Wilson et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2024

  • Shared interests or sexual conflict? Spousal age gap, women's wellbeing and fertility in rural Tanzania

    Open AccessD W Lawson, B Schaffnit et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2021

  • Evaluating the impact of the DREAMS partnership to reduce HIV incidence among adolescent girls and young women in four settings

    Open AccessIsolde Birdthistle, B Schaffnit et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    DREAMS is, to date, the most ambitious effort to scale-up combinations or 'packages' of multi-sectoral interventions for HIV prevention. Evidence of its effectiveness in reducing HIV incidence among AGYW, and demonstrating which aspects of the lives of AGYW were changed, will offer valuable lessons for replication

  • Father absence but not fosterage predicts food insecurity, relative poverty, and poor child health in northern Tanzania

    Open AccessD W Lawson, B Schaffnit et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2017

    OBJECTIVES: The importance of fathers in ensuring child health in rural developing populations is questioned by anthropologists and population health scientists. Existing literature focuses on paternal death and child mortality. A relative lack of studies consider alternative forms of father absence and/or more subtle health outcomes. Here we determine the frequency and form of father absence in northern Tanzania, and its relationship to househol…

  • Support for new mothers and fertility in the United Kingdom

    B Schaffnit, Susan B Schaffnit et al.ARTICLEPopulation Studies2017Cited by: 13References: 80

    Low fertility across Europe highlights the need to understand reproductive decisions in high-income countries better. Availability of support may be one factor influencing reproductive decisions, though within high-income countries availability varies between environments, including socio-economic environments. We test whether receiving higher levels of support, from different sources (informal and formal) and of different types (practical and em…

  • The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part II

    Open AccessG Stulp, R Sear et al.ARTICLEHuman Nature2016Cited by: 12References: 79

    Studies of the association between wealth and fertility in industrial populations have a rich history in the evolutionary literature, and they have been used to argue both for and against a behavioral ecological approach to explaining human variability. We consider that there are strong arguments in favor of measuring fertility (and proxies thereof) in industrial populations, not least because of the wide availability of large-scale secondary dat…

  • Fostering relations

    Open AccessPaula Sheppard, B Schaffnit et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2014

    Kinship fostering is generally preferred to non-kin fostering by policy makers in the U.S. and elsewhere. Researchers and policy makers alike tend to provide several proximate reasons for why this may be, generally neglecting an ultimate evolutionary framework. However, kin selection theory predicts that in the absence of genetically related parents, care from kin will result in the most similar life history outcomes. In low-fertility settings, p…