Julia Goedecke

Julia Goedecke (PhD) is a Chief Specialist Scientist within the Biomedical Research and Innovation Platform at the South African Medical Research Council in Cape Town. She also holds Honorary Professor positions at the Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand in South Africa. After training as a registered dietician at the University of Cape Town, she completed a PhD in exercise physiology at the same institution. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from the Faculty of Medicine at Umeå University in Sweden in 2018. Her research explores the risk factors for type 2 diabetes in African populations using a multi-disciplinary approach to characterize the involvement of genetic, molecular, physiological and lifestyle determinants and their interaction. The major focus of her research is to understand the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes in black Africans, which has been shown to be different to populations of European ancestry.

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