Janne Boone-Heinonen, PhD, MPH
Professor
Institute for Health Policy Studies
School of Medicine

She works with interdisciplinary teams to conduct NIH-funded women’s and children’s health research in electronic medical record-derived cohorts and other large study populations.

Dr. Boone-Heinonen holds a PhD in Nutrition Epidemiology from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also completed an Interdisciplinary Obesity Training postdoctoral fellowship. She was on the faculty in the School of Public Health at Oregon Health & Science University for 13 years prior to joining UCSF.

• Antibiotics prior to age 2 years have limited association with preschool growth trajectory.
  International journal of obesity (2005) 2022 Bailey LC, Bryan M, Maltenfort M, Block JP, Teneralli R, Lunsford D, Boone-Heinonen J, Eneli I, Horgan CE, Lin PD, Reynolds JS, Solomonides AE, Janicke D, Sturtevant JL, Toh S, Taveras E, Appelhans BM…
• Positive deviance in health and medical research on individual level outcomes - a review of methodology.
  Annals of epidemiology 2021 Foster BA, Seeley K, Davis M, Boone-Heinonen J
• Association of Early Antibiotic Exposure With Childhood Body Mass Index Trajectory Milestones.
  JAMA network open 2021 Aris IM, Lin PD, Rifas-Shiman SL, Bailey LC, Boone-Heinonen J, Eneli IU, Solomonides AE, Janicke DM, Toh S, Forrest CB, Block JP
• The Association Between Birth Weight and Fat, Sugar, and Vegetable Consumption in a National Sample of U.S. Preschool Age Children.
  Maternal and child health journal 2021 Potis K, Youngers EH, Tandy TK, Takemoto E, Boone-Heinonen J
• Associations of Pregnancy After Bariatric Surgery with Long-Term Weight Trajectories and Birth Weight: LABS-2 Study.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2020 Harrod CS, Elman MR, Vesco KK, Wolfe BM, Mitchell JE, Pories WJ, Pomp A, Boone-Heinonen J, Purnell JQ
• Maternal prepregnancy BMI and size at birth: race/ethnicity-stratified, within-family associations in over 500,000 siblings.
  Annals of epidemiology 2020 Boone-Heinonen J, Biel FM, Marshall NE, Snowden JM
• The tipping point: could increasing the subminimum wage reduce poverty-related antenatal stressors in U.S. women?
  Annals of epidemiology 2020 Andrea SB, Messer LC, Marino M, Goodman JM, Boone-Heinonen J
• Social Determinants of Placental Health and Future Disease Risks for Babies.
  Obstetrics and gynecology clinics of North America 2020 Thornburg KL, Boone-Heinonen J, Valent AM
• A nationwide investigation of the impact of the tipped worker subminimum wage on infant size for gestational age.
  Preventive medicine 2020 Andrea SB, Messer LC, Marino M, Goodman JM, Boone-Heinonen J
• Physical and Mental Health-Related Quality of Life Changes Among Insurer Subgroups Following Bariatric Surgery.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2020 Takemoto E, Wolfe BM, Nagel CL, Boone-Heinonen J
• Prenatal predictors of objectively measured appetite regulation in low-income toddlers and preschool-age children.
  Pediatric obesity 2019 Boone-Heinonen J, Weeks HM, Sturza J, Miller AL, Lumeng JC, Bauer KW
• Comparing Prescribing and Dispensing Data of the PCORnet Common Data Model Within PCORnet Antibiotics and Childhood Growth Study.
  EGEMS (Washington, DC) 2019 Lin PD, Daley MF, Boone-Heinonen J, Rifas-Shiman SL, Bailey LC, Forrest CB, Horgan CE, Sturtevant JL, Toh S, Young JG, Block JP, PCORnet Antibiotics and Childhood Growth Study Group
• The Health and economic effects of light rail lines: design, methods, and protocol for a natural experiment.
  BMC public health 2019 Frank LD, Kuntz JL, Chapman JE, Fox EH, Dickerson JF, Meenan RT, Saelens BE, Young DR, Boone-Heinonen J, Fortmann SP
• Not so implausible: impact of longitudinal assessment of implausible anthropometric measures on obesity prevalence and weight change in children and adolescents.
  Annals of epidemiology 2019 Boone-Heinonen J, Tillotson CJ, O'Malley JP, Marino M, Andrea SB, Brickman A, DeVoe J, Puro J
• Maternal antibiotic use during pregnancy and childhood obesity at age 5 years.
  International journal of obesity (2005) 2019 Heerman WJ, Daley MF, Boone-Heinonen J, Rifas-Shiman SL, Bailey LC, Forrest CB, Young JG, Gillman MW, Horgan CE, Janicke DM, Jenter C, Kharbanda EO, Lunsford D, Messito MJ, Toh S, Block JP, PCORnet …
• Analyzing Policies Through a DOHaD Lens: What Can We Learn?
  International journal of environmental research and public health 2018 Goodman JM, Boone-Heinonen J, Richardson DM, Andrea SB, Messer LC
• Reduction in Comorbid Conditions Over 5 Years Following Bariatric Surgery in Medicaid and Commercially Insured Patients.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2018 Takemoto E, Wolfe BM, Nagel CL, Boone-Heinonen J
• The Association between Maternal Height, Body Mass Index, and Perinatal Outcomes.
  American journal of perinatology 2018 Marshall NE, Biel FM, Boone-Heinonen J, Dukhovny D, Caughey AB, Snowden JM
• Associations of Tipped and Untipped Service Work With Poor Mental Health in a Nationally Representative Cohort of Adolescents Followed Into Adulthood.
  American journal of epidemiology 2018 Andrea SB, Messer LC, Marino M, Boone-Heinonen J
• Insurance status differences in weight loss and regain over 5 years following bariatric surgery.
  International journal of obesity (2005) 2018 Takemoto E, Wolfe BM, Nagel CL, Pories W, Flum DR, Pomp A, Mitchell J, Boone-Heinonen J
• Prenatal Development and Adolescent Obesity: Two Distinct Pathways to Diabetes in Adulthood.
  Childhood obesity (Print) 2018 Boone-Heinonen J, Sacks RM, Takemoto EE, Hooker ER, Dieckmann NF, Harrod CS, Thornburg KL
• PCORnet Antibiotics and Childhood Growth Study: Process for Cohort Creation and Cohort Description.
  Academic pediatrics 2018 Block JP, Bailey LC, Gillman MW, Lunsford D, Boone-Heinonen J, Cleveland LP, Finkelstein J, Horgan CE, Jay M, Reynolds JS, Sturtevant JL, Forrest CB, PCORnet Antibiotics Childhood Growth Study Group
• Weighing in on Bariatric Surgery: Effectiveness Among Medicaid Beneficiaries-Limited Evidence and Future Research Needs.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2018 Takemoto E, Andrea SB, Wolfe BM, Nagel CL, Boone-Heinonen J
• High birth weight modifies association between adolescent physical activity and cardiometabolic health in women and not men.
  Preventive medicine 2017 Jeanne TL, Hooker ER, Nguyen T, Messer LC, Sacks RM, Andrea SB, Boone-Heinonen J
• Childhood Maltreatment and BMI Trajectory: The Mediating Role of Depression.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2017 Sacks RM, Takemoto E, Andrea S, Dieckmann NF, Bauer KW, Boone-Heinonen J
• Does the association between early life growth and later obesity differ by race/ethnicity or socioeconomic status? A systematic review.
  Annals of epidemiology 2017 Andrea SB, Hooker ER, Messer LC, Tandy T, Boone-Heinonen J
• Poorer maternal diet quality and increased birth weight.
  The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians 2017 Grandy M, Snowden JM, Boone-Heinonen J, Purnell JQ, Thornburg KL, Marshall NE
• Characterizing a "Big Data" Cohort of Over 200,000 Low-Income U.S. Infants and Children for Obesity Research: The ADVANCE Early Life Cohort.
  Maternal and child health journal 2017 Boone-Heinonen J, Tillotson CJ, O'Malley JP, Cottrell EK, Gaudino JA, Amofah A, Rivo ML, Brickman A, Mayer K, McBurnie MA, Gold R, DeVoe JE
• Race, obesity, and birth outcomes: Unraveling a complex association to improve maternal-child health.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2016 Snowden JM, Robinson WR, Marshall NE, Boone-Heinonen J
• A Framework to Address Challenges in Communicating the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease.
  Current environmental health reports 2016 Winett L, Wallack L, Richardson D, Boone-Heinonen J, Messer L
• Connecting the Dots in Childhood Obesity Disparities: A Review of Growth Patterns from Birth to Pre-Adolescence.
  Current epidemiology reports 2016 Boone-Heinonen J, Messer L, Andrade K, Takemoto E
• From fatalism to mitigation: A conceptual framework for mitigating fetal programming of chronic disease by maternal obesity.
  Preventive medicine 2015 Boone-Heinonen J, Messer LC, Fortmann SP, Wallack L, Thornburg KL
• Multiple pathways from the neighborhood food environment to increased body mass index through dietary behaviors: A structural equation-based analysis in the CARDIA study.
  Health & place 2015 Richardson AS, Meyer KA, Howard AG, Boone-Heinonen J, Popkin BM, Evenson KR, Shikany JM, Lewis CE, Gordon-Larsen P
• Marriage and parenthood in relation to obesogenic neighborhood trajectories: The CARDIA study.
  Health & place 2015 Boone-Heinonen J, Howard AG, Meyer K, Lewis CE, Kiefe CI, Laroche HH, Gunderson EP, Gordon-Larsen P
• Overcoming birth weight: can physical activity mitigate birth weight-related differences in adiposity?
  Pediatric obesity 2015 Boone-Heinonen J, Markwardt S, Fortmann SP, Thornburg KL
• Neighborhood availability of convenience stores and diet quality: findings from 20 years of follow-up in the coronary artery risk development in young adults study.
  American journal of public health 2015 Rummo PE, Meyer KA, Boone-Heinonen J, Jacobs DR, Kiefe CI, Lewis CE, Steffen LM, Gordon-Larsen P
• Developmental Programming: Priming Disease Susceptibility for Subsequent Generations.
  Current epidemiology reports 2015 Messer LC, Boone-Heinonen J, Mponwane L, Wallack L, Thornburg KL
• Combined measure of neighborhood food and physical activity environments and weight-related outcomes: The CARDIA study.
  Health & place 2015 Meyer KA, Boone-Heinonen J, Duffey KJ, Rodriguez DA, Kiefe CI, Lewis CE, Gordon-Larsen P
• Neighborhood socioeconomic status and food environment: a 20-year longitudinal latent class analysis among CARDIA participants.
  Health & place 2014 Richardson AS, Meyer KA, Howard AG, Boone-Heinonen J, Popkin BM, Evenson KR, Kiefe CI, Lewis CE, Gordon-Larsen P
• Small and large size for gestational age and neighborhood deprivation measured within increasing proximity to homes.
  Health & place 2014 Wentz AE, Messer LC, Nguyen T, Boone-Heinonen J
• The neighborhood energy balance equation: does neighborhood food retail environment + physical activity environment = obesity? The CARDIA study.
  PloS one 2013 Boone-Heinonen J, Diez-Roux AV, Goff DC, Loria CM, Kiefe CI, Popkin BM, Gordon-Larsen P
• Obesogenic environments in youth: concepts and methods from a longitudinal national sample.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2012 Boone-Heinonen J, Gordon-Larsen P
• Are neighbourhood food resources distributed inequitably by income and race in the USA? Epidemiological findings across the urban spectrum.
  BMJ open 2012 Richardson AS, Boone-Heinonen J, Popkin BM, Gordon-Larsen P
• Fast food restaurants and food stores: longitudinal associations with diet in young to middle-aged adults: the CARDIA study.
  Archives of internal medicine 2011 Boone-Heinonen J, Gordon-Larsen P, Kiefe CI, Shikany JM, Lewis CE, Popkin BM
• Neighborhood fast food restaurants and fast food consumption: a national study.
  BMC public health 2011 Richardson AS, Boone-Heinonen J, Popkin BM, Gordon-Larsen P
• Neighborhood socioeconomic status predictors of physical activity through young to middle adulthood: the CARDIA study.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2011 Boone-Heinonen J, Diez Roux AV, Kiefe CI, Lewis CE, Guilkey DK, Gordon-Larsen P
• Environment and Physical Activity Dynamics: The Role of Residential Self-selection.
  Psychology of sport and exercise 2011 Boone-Heinonen J, Gordon-Larsen P, Guilkey DK, Jacobs DR, Popkin BM
• Life stage and sex specificity in relationships between the built and socioeconomic environments and physical activity.
  Journal of epidemiology and community health 2010 Boone-Heinonen J, Gordon-Larsen P
• Residential self-selection bias in the estimation of built environment effects on physical activity between adolescence and young adulthood.
  The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity 2010 Boone-Heinonen J, Guilkey DK, Evenson KR, Gordon-Larsen P
• Walking: the first steps in cardiovascular disease prevention.
  Current opinion in cardiology 2010 Murtagh EM, Murphy MH, Boone-Heinonen J
• Where can they play? Outdoor spaces and physical activity among adolescents in U.S. urbanized areas.
  Preventive medicine 2010 Boone-Heinonen J, Casanova K, Richardson AS, Gordon-Larsen P
• What neighborhood area captures built environment features related to adolescent physical activity?
  Health & place 2010 Boone-Heinonen J, Popkin BM, Song Y, Gordon-Larsen P
• Perception of overweight and self-esteem during adolescence.
  The International journal of eating disorders 2010 Perrin EM, Boone-Heinonen J, Field AE, Coyne-Beasley T, Gordon-Larsen P
• Built and socioeconomic environments: patterning and associations with physical activity in U.S. adolescents.
  The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity 2010 Boone-Heinonen J, Evenson KR, Song Y, Gordon-Larsen P
• A walk (or cycle) to the park: active transit to neighborhood amenities, the CARDIA study.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2009 Boone-Heinonen J, Jacobs DR, Sidney S, Sternfeld B, Lewis CE, Gordon-Larsen P
• Active commuting and cardiovascular disease risk: the CARDIA study.
  Archives of internal medicine 2009 Gordon-Larsen P, Boone-Heinonen J, Sidney S, Sternfeld B, Jacobs DR, Lewis CE
• Walking for prevention of cardiovascular disease in men and women: a systematic review of observational studies.
  Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity 2008 Boone-Heinonen J, Evenson KR, Taber DR, Gordon-Larsen P
• Obesogenic clusters: multidimensional adolescent obesity-related behaviors in the U.S.
  Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine 2008 Boone-Heinonen J, Gordon-Larsen P, Adair LS