Mark Flinn

Mark V. Flinn is a biomedical anthropologist, specializing in childhood stress, family relationships and health. His research includes a longitudinal 35-year study of child health in a rural community on the Caribbean island of Dominica. This study is the first of its kind to monitor stress hormones in a naturalistic setting.

In 2012, Flinn was elected as a lifetime Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science^[1] and the Association for Psychological Science. Between 2013 and 2015, he was president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.^[2]