Select Peer Reviewed Publications
Messer, J. S. and D. E. Soranno, C. M. Coopersmith, J.F. Brinkworth, F.N.F. Factora, J.H. Munteen, M.G. Mythen, J. Raphael, A.D. Shaw, V. Vachharajani. 2025. “Gut failure as a cause and consequence of critical illness” Critical Care. Accepted
Branigan C., J.F. Brinkworth, K. Maldonado, E. Moodie, G. Rosas. “We don’t have that freedom:: Labor, stress and the racial capitalism of agriculture at the advent of COVID In A Revelatory Pandemic? Social Science and the COVID 19 Pandemic in Latin America.. Editors Roberto Barrios and Virginia García Acosta. Berghahn: Oxford and New York. Accepted
Heiman, S.L., and E.R. Hirt, C. Isch, J.F. Brinkworth, L. Cronk, J. Alcock, A. Akitipis, P.M.Todd. 2022. “Identities as Predictors of Vaccine Hesitancy during the COVID-19 Pandemic” Journal of Social Issues. Accepted.
Klunk, J. and T.P. Vilgalys, C.E. Demeure, X. Cheng, M. Shiratori, J. Madej, R. Beau, D. Elii, M.I. Patino, R. Redfern, S. N. DeWitte, J.A. Gamble, J.L. Boldsen, A. Carrmichael, N. Varlik, K. Eaton, J.C. Greniew, G. B. Golding, Al Devault, J.N. Rouillard, V. Yotova, R. Sindeaux, C.J. Ye, M. Bikaran, A. Dumaine, J.F. Brinkworth, D. Missiakas, G.A. Rouleau, M. Steinrücken, J. Pizarro-Cerdá, H.N. Poinar, L.B. Barreiro. 2022. “Evolution of immune genes is associated with the Black Death“. Nature. October 19. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05349-x
Brinkworth, J.F. and R. M. Rusen 2022. “SARS-CoV-2 isn’t special, but the pandemic is: ecology, evolution, policy and the future of the deadliest pandemic in living memory”. Annual Reviews of Anthropology 51:
Brinkworth, J.F. and J.G. Shaw. 2022. “On race, human variation, and who gets and dies of sepsis”. Yearbook of Biological Anthropology. 178(S74):230-255
Fahmy Hawash, M.B.F., and J. Sanz-Remón, J-C. Grenier, J. Kohn, V. Yotova, Z. Johnson, Robert Lanford, J.F. Brinkworth*, Luis Barreiro*. 2021. “Primate innate immune responses to bacterial and viral pathogens reveals an evolutionary trade-off between strength and specificity”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(13) e2015855118
Brinkworth, J.F. and N. Valizadegan. 2021. “Sepsis and the evolution of human high sensitivity to lipopolysaccharide”. Evolutionary Anthropology. March 10, 2021
Brinkworth, J.F. and K. Maldonado, E. Moodie, G. Rosas. 2020. “Visceral non-presence: Ethnography in the age of COVID”. Journal of Legal Anthropology. 4(1):92-100
Brinkworth, J.F. and A. Alvarado. 2020. “Cell-Autonomous Immunity and the Pathogen-Mediated Evolution of Humans”. Quarterly Review of Biology. 95(3):215-246
Brinkworth, J.F. and C. Babbitt. 2018. “Immune system promiscuity in human and non-human primate evolution”. Human Biology. Volume 90(4):251-269
Hill, S.E. and M.L. Prokosch, A. Makhanova, M. Eimerbrink, J. Gassen, J.D. White, J. L. Peterman, R.P. Proffitt-Leyva, S.C. Nicolas, T.A. Reynolds, J.K. Maner, J.K. McNulty, L.A. Eckel, L. Nikonova, J.F. Brinkworth, M. Phillips, J. Mitchell, G.W. Boehm. 2018. “The Behavioral Immune System Protects the Body from Chronic Basal Inflammation”. Plos One. 13(9): e0203961. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203961
Brinkworth, J.F. 2017. “Infectious Disease and the Diversification of the Human Genome”. Human Biology. Issue 89.1, Winter 2017
Snyder-Mackler, N. and J. Sanz, J.N. Kohn, J.F. Brinkworth, S. Morrow, A.O. Shaver, J.C. Grenier, R. Pique-Regi, Z.P. Johnson, M.E. Wilson, L.B. Barreiro, J. Tung. “Social status alters immune regulation and response to infection in macaques”. Science 354(6315):1041-1045
Pai, A.A. and G. Baharian, A.P. Sabourin, J.F. Brinkworth, Y. Nedelec, J.W. Foley, J.C. Grenier, K.J. Siddle, A. Dumaine, V. Yotova, Z.P. Johnson, R.E. Lanford, C.B. Burge, L.B. Barreiro. 2016. “Widespread shortening of 3′ untranslated regions and increased exon inclusion are evolutionarily conserved features of innate immune responses to infection”. PLoS Genetics. 12(9):e1006338. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1006338
Brinkworth, J.F. and L.B. Barreiro. 2014. “The contribution of natural selection to present-day susceptibility to chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease”. Current Opinions in Immunology. 31:66-78
Brinkworth, J.F. and M. Thorn. 2013. “Vertebrate immune system evolution and comparative primate immunity”. In J.F. Brinkworth and K. Pechenkina (eds) Primates, Pathogens and Evolution. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Vol 38: 17-64. Springer Publishing: New York
Brinkworth, J.F. and K.N. Sterner. 2013. “Toll-like receptor function and evolution in primates” In J.F. Brinkworth and K. Pechenkina (eds) Primates, Pathogens and Evolution. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Vol 38: 91-116. Springer Publishing: New York
Brinkworth, J.F. and K. Pechenkina. 2013. “Primates, pathogens and evolution: An introduction”. In J.F. Brinkworth and K. Pechenkina (eds) Primates, Pathogens and Evolution. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Vol 38: 1-15. Springer Publishing: New York
Brinkworth, J.F. and J. Silver, S.M. Goyert. 2012. Innate immune responses to TLR2 and TLR4 agonists differ between baboons, chimpanzees and humans. Journal of Medical Primatology. 41(6): 388-39
Books
Brinkworth J.F. and K. Pechenkina (eds). 2013. Primates, Pathogens and Evolution. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Vol 38. 428p. Springer Publishing: New York