Juliana Grant
Juliana is a physician-epidemiologist and senior public health leader with 20+ years of experience designing surveillance and monitoring systems, leading risk assessment under uncertainty, and building data governance frameworks for emerging threats. She has led multidisciplinary teams of up to 140 staff, enterprise analytics functions, and cross-jurisdictional stakeholder processes through novel, high-stakes challenges — from building COVID-19 surveillance for Washington State to forecasting California's $500M AIDS Drug Assistance Program budget.
She now works in AI safety, evaluation, and biosecurity — currently as a part-time contractor with Coefficient Giving on a bioresilience project, alongside independent work on evaluation protocols for AI-assisted analysis, structured comparisons of frontier-lab safety frameworks, and model welfare.
Education
University of Colorado Health Science Center
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
San Diego State University
Masters in Public Health (MPH), Epidemiology
Experience
Coefficient Giving
Contractor, 2026 - present
Public Health Nerds, LLC
Consultant, 2024 - present
Washington State Department of Health
Deputy Director (Acting), Center for Data Science, 2023 - 2024
Manager, Surveillance Section, Office of Public Health Outbreak Coordination, Informatics, and Surveillance, 2020 - 2022
Public Health Nerds, LLC
Consultant, 2018 - 2020
California Office of AIDS
Division Medical Officer, 2018
California Office of AIDS (CDC assignee)
Chief, Surveillance, Research, and Evaluation Branch, 2014 - 2017
Chief, HIV Surveillance Section, 2013 - 2014
CDC, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination
Lead, Molecular Epidemiology Activity, 2010 - 2013
Medical Epidemiologist, Outbreak Investigations Team, 2009 - 2010
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Alaska Regional Representative, 2007 - 2009
CDC / Utah Department of Public Health
Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, 2005 - 2007