Lee Gettler

Dr. Lee Gettler is the John A. O’Brien College Professor of Anthropology and Department Chair at the University of Notre Dame. He is an affiliated faculty member of The Eck Institute for Global Health and The Berthiaume Institute for Precision Medicine at Notre Dame. He is a leading expert on the study of the ‘biology of fatherhood.’ His ground-breaking work in this area has been published in The Proceedings of the National Academies of Science and featured on the front page of the New York Times. In 2025, he was named an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). With many fantastic collaborators around the world, he studies questions about the role of fathers in families, parents’ health, and child well-being across a range of global settings, including the Philippines, Congo-Brazzaville, Honduras, and the U.S.

Epigenetics, Family life, Fatherhood, Hormone and immune physiology, Human biology, Psychobiology