OUR PEOPLE

Janne Boone-Heinonen, PhD, MPH

Professor
School of Medicine
3333 California Street, #72N
San Francisco, CA 94118
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Janne
Education and Training

Santa Clara University,Santa Clara, CA, BS - 06/1997 Biology

Oregon Health and Science University,Portland, OR, MPH - 06/2003 Epidemiology & Biostatistics

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,Chapel Hill, NC, PhD - 05/2009 Nutrition Epidemiology

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,Chapel Hill, NC 02/2011 Interdisciplinary Obesity Training Postdoctoral Fellowship

Overview
Dr. Boone-Heinonen is a Professor in the Institute for Health Policy Studies, with a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Her research interests focus on early life, behavioral, and environmental factors influence cardiometabolic health and related disparities throughout the life cycle. She works with interdisciplinary teams to conduct NIH-funded women’s and children’s health research in electronic medical record-derived cohorts and other large study populations.

Dr. Boone-Heinonen holds a PhD in Nutrition Epidemiology from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also completed an Interdisciplinary Obesity Training postdoctoral fellowship. She was on the faculty in the School of Public Health at Oregon Health & Science University for 13 years prior to joining UCSF.