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 200 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 applies this background to AI safety, evaluation, and governance, working independently on standardized protocols for AI-assisted data analysis, structured comparisons of frontier-model safety frameworks, and evaluations of LLM capabilities. Her work bridges the gap between public health methodology — evidence synthesis, risk frameworks, surveillance design — and the emerging field of AI governance.
Education
University of Colorado Health Science Center
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
San Diego State University
Masters in Public Health (MPH), Epidemiology
Experience
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 - 2009