Juliet Pulliam
Juliet Pulliam (born 1979) is an American epidemiologist who studies how diseases move between animals and people and uses math to predict outbreaks. She led South Africa’s SACEMA center for epidemiological modelling from 2016 to 2023 and has been a professor of applied mathematics at Stellenbosch University. Her work helped guide South Africa’s COVID-19 response.
She studied biology at Duke University, graduating in 2002 with minors in mathematics and linguistics. She earned a master's (2004) and a Ph.D. (2007) in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton; her Ph.D. was Determinants & Dynamics of Viral Host Jumps and was co-supervised by Andrew P. Dobson and Simon A. Levin.
After postdoctoral work with Leslie Real at Emory University and as a RAPIDD Program Fellow at UCLA and the Fogarty International Center, she became an assistant professor at the University of Florida in the Biology Department and the Emerging Pathogens Institute.
In 2023 she was elected to the Academy of Science of South Africa.
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