principal investigator
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Dr. Genevieve Wojcik is a genetic epidemiologist and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research focuses on understanding the role of ancestry in genetic risk and developing solutions to address health inequities for diverse and admixed populations, as well as elucidating genetic susceptibility to infectious disease and vaccine response. Her most recent work has explored the interaction of genetic ancestry and environment in admixed populations and downstream consequences for genetic risk prediction. Dr. Wojcik has leadership positions in multiple NIH consortia, most notably the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) Study, as well as more recently the Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen).
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Graduate students
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Jayati Sharma is a second-year ScM student in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research interests lie in the genetic epidemiology of complex diseases as it pertains to risk prediction and identifying gene-environment interactions that can be used to prioritize public health prevention efforts. She’s especially committed to applying these efforts to diverse and historically minoritized populations.
She previously double-majored in Molecular Biology & in Public Health at the University of Arizona and has worked on PRS-related genetic epi projects in the above-mentioned areas as both an undergraduate and now graduate student. Jayati is pursuing a PhD to hone her analytical and statistical skills as a future genetic epidemiologist, and to ask pressing questions and advance the science around using genetics to predict and prevent individual- and population-level health burdens of chronic disease. |