Val Curtis


Professor Val Curtis is Director of the Environmental Health Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The EHG is a multidisciplinary group dedicated to improving hygiene, sanitation and water in households and schools through enhancing knowledge. Curtis has a background in engineering, epidemiology and anthropology, and has a particular interest in human behaviour, especially from an evolutionary perspective.

Publications

Curtis V.; de Barra, M.; Aunger, R. "Disgust as an adaptive system for disease avoidance behaviour" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences