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Research Interest

1. Childhood Obesity
2. Infant nutrition
3. International Maternal and Child Health
4. HIV and Nutrition
   

Select Publications

• Wojcicki, JM and Heyman MB (2005). A Healthier Diet Increases Participation in the School Lunch Program: Impact of Changes in Nutrition Policy. Report from a Middle School in the San Francisco Unified School District. American Journal of Public Health, In press.
  
• Wojcicki, JM., Rob Newton, Margaret I. Urban, Lara Stein, Martin Hale, Moosa Patel, Paul Ruff, Ranjan Sur, Bourboulia, D. Freddy Sitas (2004). Low socioeconomic status and risk for infection with Human Herpesvirus 8 among HIV-1 negative, South African black cancer patients. Epidemiology and Infection December 132(3).
  
  
• Wojcicki, JM., Rob Newton, Margaret I. Urban, Lara Stein, Martin Hale, Moosa Patel, Paul Ruff, Ranjan Sur, Bourboulia, D. Freddy Sitas (2003) Risk Factors for High Anti-HHV-8 Antibody Titers in Black, HIV-1 Negative South African Cancer Patients: A Case Control Study. BMC Infectious Diseases 2003, 3:21 (12 September 2003).
  
  
• Wojcicki, JM. (2003). Traditional behavioral practices, the exchange of saliva and HHV-8 transmission in sub-Saharan African population. British Journal of Cancer, 89: 2016-7.
  
• Wojcicki, JM and J Malala (2001) Condom Use, Power and HIV/AIDS Risks: Sex Workers Bargain for Survival in Hillbrow/Joubert Park, Johannesburg. Social Science and Medicine 53(1), pp.99-121.
  

Honors & Awards (selected)

• 1993 1993 Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad for Advanced Kiswahili in Tanzania
• 1998-1999 Jean Stone Dissertation Fellowship for Research on Women and Gender.
• 1999 - 2000 Ursula Mandel UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship.
• 2004 - 2005 Robert Wood Johnson Grant for Health Disparities
• 2005 Children’s Digestive and Health and Nutrition Foundation (CDHNF)/Nestle Grant for New Investigators

Education

• Stanford University, A.B., International Relations (1991)
• University of California, Los Angeles, M.A. African Studies (1994)
• University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D. Anthropology (2000)
• University of California, Berkeley, M.P.H. Epidemiology (2001)
• University of California, San Francisco, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Fellowship in HIV Prevention Studies (2000-2003)
• University of California, San Francisco, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Fellowship in Pediatric Nutrition (2003-2005)