Dr. Amanda Janitz is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Hudson College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC). After graduating from OUHSC in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, she worked as a
pediatric oncology nurse. She then obtained her Master's in Public Health and Epidemiology from OUHSC with a focus on childhood cancer in 2009 and her Ph.D. in Epidemiology in 2015. She became an Assistant Professor at OUHSC in 2015 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2023. Dr. Janitz’s research interests include Childhood Cancer, Environmental Exposures, Congenital Anomalies, and
Health Disparities. She is working on projects to understand health disparities and environmental risk factors related to childhood cancers, including analysis of biomarkers to understand etiology and survivorship issues. She is also a Co-project Director of the Cherokee Nation Health Analytics Core, a
capacity-building project of the Cherokee Nation Native American Research Center for Health focused on cancer. Dr. Janitz is also involved in the COVID-19 response in partnership with the Cherokee Nation to improve testing and contact tracing and is working with the Oklahoma Shared Clinical Translational
Resources Center on an NIH-funded study to evaluate and address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.
Dr. Amanda Janitz is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Hudson College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC). After graduating from OUHSC in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, she worked as a
pediatric oncology nurse. She then obtained her Master's in Public Health and Epidemiology from OUHSC with a focus on childhood cancer in 2009 and her Ph.D. in Epidemiology in 2015. She became an Assistant Professor at OUHSC in 2015 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2023. Dr. Janitz’s research interests include Childhood Cancer, Environmental Exposures, Congenital Anomalies, and
Health Disparities. She is working on projects to understand health disparities and environmental risk factors related to childhood cancers, including analysis of biomarkers to understand etiology and survivorship issues. She is also a Co-project Director of the Cherokee Nation Health Analytics Core, a
capacity-building project of the Cherokee Nation Native American Research Center for Health focused on cancer. Dr. Janitz is also involved in the COVID-19 response in partnership with the Cherokee Nation to improve testing and contact tracing and is working with the Oklahoma Shared Clinical Translational
Resources Center on an NIH-funded study to evaluate and address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.