Second Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
29 October -2 November 2022

Dr Catherine Juillard (Participant)

Dr. Juillard is a surgeon who has her roots in public health. Before going to medical school, Dr. Juillard was a rural health volunteer for the U.S. Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa, which is where her interest in public health and health equity were cemented. As a surgeon, Dr. Juillard's main research interests are identifying risk factors driving disparities in susceptibility to surgically treated diseases and inequity in access to treatment, then creating ways to mitigate these disparities. She looks to apply public health research principles to these issues to develop innovative solutions. Dr. Juillard joined the faculty at UCLA in 2018 and co-founded the Program for the Advancement for Surgical Equity in the Department of Surgery (PASE). She has worked with Dr. Alain Chichom and the University of Buea since 2008, a long-term partnership which serves as the foundation for the NIH DS-I Africa U54 Research Hub D-SINE Africa, a Data Science Center for Surgery, Injury, and Equity in Africa.