Dr. Jovan Julien

Biography

Jovan Julien is an Assistant Professor with joint appointments at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. They are also a Georgia Power Faculty Fellow. Dr. Julien's research focuses on collective decision-making under uncertainty and the development of predictive speculative models that inform health systems and public policy at individual, interpersonal, and systemic levels. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Jovan completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital's Institute for Technology Assessment at Harvard Medical School, where they leveraged simulation models to explore the impact of breathing modulation and mindfulness techniques on disease mitigation strategies. Jovan holds a B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from Brown University, an M.S. in Health Systems Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Georgia Institute of Technology. As a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar, Jovan aims to illuminate the experiences of the Haitian Diaspora and contribute to transformative models that inform public policy.

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