Early Life and Career
Wulsin was born in Elyria, Ohio, the daughter of a teacher and a social worker. She attended high school in Ohio and completed her undergraduate coursework at Harvard University. After college, she returned to Ohio and earned a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland (1980). She received her masters in Public Health (1982) and her doctorate in Epidemiology (1985), both from the Harvard University School of Public Health. Wulsin has obtained medical licenses in Massachusetts (1981) and Ohio (1989). From 1989-1995, she was Director of Epidemiology in the City of Cincinnati's Health Department. From 1986-2001, she worked in various capacities for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her husband, Dr. Lawson Reed Wulsin, is a psychiatrist on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati, and they have four sons: Wells, Reed, Stuart and John,.
In April 2003, Wulsin founded SOTENI International, a non-profit organization to fight AIDS in Africa, which has its headquarters in Cincinnati and an office in Kenya. SOTENI uplifts women and orphans who were most affected by the AIDS pandemic. Soteni is a Swahili word which translates as "all of us". On 26 January 2011 during the award of charter to the Mount Kenya University in Thika, she was installed as its first Chancellor.
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