Dr. Snodgrass is a biological anthropologist who specializes in human biology and global health. His research addresses topics such as the influence of social and environmental factors on health (including chronic and infectious/parasitic diseases, as well as mental health issues), human adaptation to environmental stressors (e.g., physiological adaptation to cold stress), aging in global context, biomarkers of physiology and health obtained using minimally invasive techniques (e.g., finger prick blood spots, hair, saliva, and urine), and the evolution of the human diet. He has active field projects in the Amazon region of Ecuador (co-director of the Shuar Health and Life History Project since 2007; https://www.shuarproject.org/) and the Homelessness, Policy, and Health/Homelessness and Health project (co-director since 2024) based in Eugene. Dr. Snodgrass has also collaborated with the World Health Organization for nearly 20 years, including on the Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE), the Tunisian Health Examination Survey (THES), and the World Health Survey Plus (WHS+). He also directs an immunology/endocrinology research laboratory (the Global Health Biomarker Laboratory) that focuses on the development and application of minimally invasive techniques for assessing health and physiology in population-based research.

Dr. Snodgrass has published in a wide range of outlets, including American Journal of Human Biology, The Lancet, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychoneuroendocrinology, American Journal of Epidemiology, and The New York Times (see his Google Scholar Profile). His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, and the Forensic Science Foundation.

Dr. Snodgrass regularly teaches one introductory class (Evolutionary Medicine [ANTH 175]) and one upper-division course (Human Growth and Development [ANTH 369]), and two upper division/graduate seminar classes (Healthy Aging and Emerging Infectious Diseases and Pandemics). He co-directs UO's Center for Global Health, is co-director of the Global Health minor program, and is faculty director of the Health Sciences Academic Residential Community (ARC).

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