Janet is a Behavioral Science Lecturer and Clinical Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry in the College of Health Sciences at Makerere University in Uganda.

Janet mentors undergraduate and postgraduate students in behavioral science and bioethics. She is also involved in clinical work and started the psychological assessment and management of patients in the two Uganda National referral hospitals (Mulago and Butabika).

In 2015, she received an award from the John Hopkins Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program.