Professor Janine Wichmann is an associate professor at the School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria. She is an environmental epidemiologist with a primary interest in air pollution exposure assessment and health effects. Since 2008, she has focused on climate change health effects, and mainly the short-term heat effects on and mortality and morbidity. She gained research and teaching experience in Europe from 2002 to 2012. Prof Wichmann has been a visiting researcher at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, since 2013.

She has lectured in various postgraduate (master's and PhD level) courses at the SHSPH for the past 18 years. She has also lectured in various postgraduate (master's and PhD level) courses at the University of Copenhagen during 2009-2012. She is the PhD coordinator at the SHSPH.

She is committed to knowledge sharing and education which is evident in my postgraduate supervision track record at UP and other local as well as international universities.

Prof Wichmann’s long-term research objective is to estimate the burden of non-communicable disease due to air pollution and climate change indicators whilst training postgraduate students in these skills. Her research addresses the evidence gaps in air quality management plans as required by the National Environmental Management Act: Air Quality Act (2005) in South Africa.

In 2016, she received a prestigious Fulbright Research Visiting Scholarship. Since 2017, professor Wichmann has been the local principal investigator for short-term epidemiology studies of the Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) project of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This is the first time NASA has entered into a partnership with epidemiologists and health organisations using space-based data to study human health and improve lives.