Boston University Center for Global Health & Development
Julie Herlihy, MD, MPH, is a board-certified pediatrician with over 15 years of experience working in sub-Saharan Africa on community-based child survival projects. Currently, Dr. Herlihy is an Assistant Professor in Global Health and Pediatrics at Boston University’s Center for Global Health & Development with a research focus on newborn survival research. Dr. Herlihy is also Director of the Pediatric Global Health Research Fellowship, a joint venture between Boston Medical Center’s Department of Pediatrics and Boston University’s School of Public Health. In 1997, Dr. Herlihy lived in rural Zimbabwe working as a volunteer school teacher. Since then, she has worked domestically with East African refugee communities to increase access to health care via creation of a domestic community health worker model and training curriculum.
From 2000 to 2007, Dr. Herlihy worked closely with Bwafwano, a community-based organization in Zambia, to create sustainable programming in micro-finance, pediatric care, orphans and vulnerable children programming, and HIV screening and treatment for children. Her role included program design, implementation, evaluation, and resource development. She has conducted research focused on persons living with disabilities, examining their risk for HIV and access to health services and education in sub-Saharan Africa. Clinically, Dr. Herlihy has worked as a pediatrician in Boston, Liberia, and Zambia. Her current research interests focus on community-based models for maternal, newborn, and child survival. Dr. Herlihy completed her clinical training in pediatrics at Boston Medical Center and Children’s Hospital Boston and she holds a medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, a Master of Public Health degree in international health from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology and education from Brown University.