Julia Smith
Assistant Professor MSHRBC Scholar
Julia Smith
Assistant Professor, MSHRBC Scholar
- jhs6@sfu.ca
- BLU 11826
Areas of interest
Health and social inequities, pandemic preparedness and response, healthcare workforce, health and social policy, intersectional feminist analysis, structural determinants of health, global health
Education
- BA (Hons), University of Victoria
- MA, Peace Studies, University of Bradford
- PhD, School of Social and International Studies, University of Bradford
Biography
Dr. Julia Smith is a transdisciplinary social scientist whose research contributes to public health policy and global health governance fields. She has worked with health and community development programs in Canada, Kenya, South Africa, Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom, and frequently works in consultation with government and civil society at both the local and global level. She is Associate Scientific Director of the Pacific Institute on Pandemics and Society and a member of the . Julia is the author of and . Outside of her research, she enjoys volunteering with and , as well as hiking and swimming.
Research Interests
Dr. Julia Smith鈥檚 research centres around the social, political and commercial determinants of health, often applying an intersectional feminist and critical political economy lens to better understand the relationships between health and other inequities. Trained as a qualitative researcher, she leads mixed methods teams to conduct community-engaged research and work with decision-makers for integrated knowledge translation. Her current research projects center around equity-based pandemic preparedness and response, strengthening the healthcare workforce and equitable access to care. In the past, Julia has led research on gender and COVID-19, tobacco control, the global response to HIV/AIDS and global health governance.