Julie Harris, PhD, MPH, is the Resident Advisor for Uganda with the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Before joining the team in Uganda, she worked at CDC headquarters in Atlanta, where she supported FETPs throughout East Africa.

She brings expertise in teaching and epidemiologic methods, as well as previous experience working on a wide variety of infectious disease outbreaks, program implementation projects, and policy analyses.

Before working with FETP, Dr. Harris was an epidemiologist with the Mycotic Diseases Branch and Parasitic Diseases Branch at CDC, and taught Field Epidemiology at Emory University.

Dr. Harris completed Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program with the Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases Branch at CDC. She graduated with a degree in biology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, received her PhD in microbiology from Columbia University, and completed a Master of Public Health in epidemiology and biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

Dr. Harris has published more than 70 scientific papers in the fields of epidemiology, virology, and mathematical modeling.