India Schneider-Crease

India Schneider-Crease is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University, affiliated with the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and the Center for Evolution and Medicine. She holds additional roles as a Senior Global Futures Scientist and member of the Global Futures Scientists and Scholars network. Her research focuses on One Health principles, applying epidemiology, behavioral ecology, and public health to study wildlife disease transmission and zoonotic risks. She co-directs the Simien Mountains Gelada Research Project (Ethiopia) and the Kasanka Baboon Project (Zambia), and mentors the Engineers Without Borders-ASU Ethiopia initiative.

Education: PhD from Duke University. Her work emphasizes primate behavior, parasite ecology, and evolutionary medicine. Courses taught include Advanced Evolutionary Medicine, Special Topics in Biology, and undergraduate research supervision.

Research interests span wildlife disease dynamics, particularly in geladas and Kinda baboons, with a focus on social structure, microbiome diversity, and genomic adaptations. Recent studies highlight links between social rank and health outcomes in primates, and methodological advances in DNA sequencing and metagenomics.

Her projects integrate fieldwork and lab-based analyses, addressing pressing issues like high-throughput sequencing methods and zoonotic pathogen surveillance. Prior work includes investigations into tapeworm infections in geladas and cytokine responses in human populations.