Bio
Dr. Janet Wojcicki, sister to the late Susan Wojcicki, is a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at UCSF and an anthropologist with an interest in early life risk factors for the development of obesity and metabolic disease in high risk populations. Specifically, she is interested in maternal exposures in pregnancy and early-life feeding decisions that can increase risk for obesity by age five.
Additionally, she has international expertise, particularly in sub-Saharan African populations, in evaluating the relationship between nutritional factors and HIV and HHV-8 infection and progression. Janet earned her PhD in anthropology from UCLA and master’s degrees in epidemiology and nutrition from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at Davis, respectively. Janet graduated from Stanford University with an AB in International Relations.