Julia Marcus, PhD, MPH is an infectious disease epidemiologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, and Adjunct Faculty at The Fenway Institute. She received her doctoral degree in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research.
As her primary research interest, Dr. Marcus focuses on improving the implementation of preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent new HIV infections and promote sexual health. She has used electronic health record, survey, and qualitative data to identify people likely to benefit from PrEP, evaluate clinical outcomes among PrEP users in real-world healthcare settings, and characterize gaps and inequities in the PrEP continuum of care.
Dr. Marcus is leading multiple projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, including a study on the implementation of long-acting injectable PrEP and studies to determine whether implementation of electronic decision support tools with embedded HIV prediction models can improve PrEP discussions and prescribing in community health centers.
