Professor Janet Seeley is a social anthropologist by training and holds a PhD in the same subject from the University of Cambridge. She is a Professor of Anthropology and Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Before joining the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in April 2014, she was Professor of International Development at the University of East Anglia and later moved to the University of East Anglia in 2000. Professor Seeley was responsible for establishing the Social Aspects of Health Programme within the MRC/UVRI Unit in 1989-1993, a programme she returned to and has headed since 2008. She has been actively engaged in research related to, particularly HIV, since 1987, working in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. She is a Co-Investigator on the Obuntu bulamu study.