JULIE PULERWITZ, Sc.D.

Julie Pulerwitz, Sc.D. is a behavioral scientist with the Horizons project, a global HIV/AIDS operations research project funded by USAID and led by the Population Council. She is seconded from PATH to the project. Her main areas of research and program development include gender, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS, as well as HIV-related stigma. Currently, she is working on studies in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Vietnam, and Brazil. She has published in a number of journals, including the American Journal of Public Health and Sex Roles. Dr. Pulerwitz received her masters and doctoral degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as a graduate degree from the University of Buenos Aires School of Public Health. She has received the Sexuality Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, and was a Saltonstall Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. She is this year’s recipient of the Young Investigator Award from the Family Planning & Reproductive Health Section of the American Public Health Association.