About

Asher Yoel Rosinger is an associate professor of Biobehavioral Health and Anthropology at Penn State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Georgia, an M.P.H. in Epidemiology from the same institution, and a B.A. in Anthropology and Psychology from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Dr. Rosinger's professional background includes serving as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he led field projects and published research on dietary water intake, sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, obesity, and cholesterol. He deployed three times to Puerto Rico to assist in building a surveillance system for health outcomes related to Zika Virus infection during pregnancy, earning a CDC & ATSDR Honor Award for Excellence in Emergency Response. At Penn State, Dr. Rosinger directs the Water, Health, and Nutrition Lab, focusing on how humans respond to changing nutritional and economic environments through water and dietary intake. His research aims to understand human variation in water intake and its relation to perception, environmental resources, water insecurity, health, hydration, and disease risk. His work involves studying indigenous Tsimane’ forager-horticulturalists in Bolivia, Daasanach agro-pastoralists in Kenya, and populations in the US using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES). He explores the consequences of water and nutritional strategies, health states, behaviors, and diseases on hydration status using biomarker data. Dr. Rosinger is also a member of the Household Water Insecurity Experiences Scale (HWISE) consortium, working to cross-culturally validate a measure of water insecurity. He co-advises Ph.D. students in the Anthropology department and accepts research assistants for his lab, with a focus on students at the undergraduate level.

Research topics

• Environmental health
• Medicine
• Economics
• Computer Science
• Business
• Biology
• Ecology
• Psychology
• Psychiatry
• Socioeconomics
• Environmental economics
• Environmental planning
• Environmental science
• Environmental resource management
• Geography
• Gerontology
• Public economics
• Economic growth

Selected publications

• Daasanach Sample 3D Cores

  Open MIND · 2026-02-12

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• Daasanach Knapping Techniques

  Open MIND · 2026-02-11

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• Throwing Percussion and Flake Attribute Complexity

  Open MIND · 2026-02-12

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• Daasanach Knapping Techniques

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-02-11

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• Daasanach Sample 3D Flakes

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-02-12

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• Daasanach Sample 3D Cores

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-02-12

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• Water and Nutrition in a Rapidly Changing World: introduction to the Special Issue

  Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2026-03-27

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• Household Water Insecurity Is Associated With Greater Likelihood of Early Exclusive Breastfeeding Cessation and Diarrhea Among Children Aged 6 to 59 Months in Ethiopia: Data From Haramaya University Health and Demographic Surveillance System

  Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2026-02-03 · 1 citations

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• Video Focal Follow of Stone Tool Use History

  Open MIND · 2026-02-12

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• Daasanach Sample 3D Flakes

  Open MIND · 2026-02-12

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: REU Site: Past and Present Human-Environment Dynamics

  NSF · $85k · 2019–2024

Frequent coauthors

• Janice Pérez‐Padilla

  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

  103 shared

• Carrie K. Shapiro‐Mendoza

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  103 shared

• Laura Adams

  Vanderbilt University Medical Center

  102 shared

• Romeo R. Galang

  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

  102 shared

• Jorge L. Muñoz‐Jordán

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  102 shared

• Brenda Rivera-García

  Emory University

  102 shared

• Sascha Ellington

  Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Temple

  102 shared

• Miguel Valencia‐Prado

  102 shared

Labs

• Center for Human Evolution and DiversityPI

Awards & honors

• CDC & ATSDR Honor Award for Excellence in Emergency Response