Candice Woodcock

Candice Woodcock was born and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She graduated from Terry Sanford High School in 2001, and went on to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead Scholar. Following her freshman year of college, she spent the summer living with a tribal family in the western highlands of Kenya. She taught primary and secondary school in the village and designed her own service project where she ran a clinic that distributed over 700 pairs of eyeglasses that had been donated by parties in the United States.

Inspired by her work in Kenya, Woodcock became the fundraising director and then executive director of Students for Students International. Woodcock also spent a summer studying health care in Chile and Peru and another summer splitting her time between work at the Cancer Clinic at George Washington University Hospital and La Clinica del Pueblo, a free Latino clinic in Washington, D.C. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in both Biology and Psychology.

After graduating, Woodcock took a year off to work in the medical field and to compete in Survivor: Cook Islands before continuing her graduate studies. She then went on to earn her Master of Science degree in Physiology and Biophysics from Georgetown University and completed the first two years of medical school. During a break before her third year, she traveled to Samoa to film Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains which is set to air in the Spring of 2010 on CBS. She is currently a third year medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She hopes to use her medical degree to help provide access to healthcare for underserved populations in the U.S. and abroad.

Woodcock enjoys spending time with her fiancé and their two dogs. She currently resides in Washington, D.C.