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Sabrina Juran, PhD

Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Part-time, Harvard Medical School

Sabrina Juran, Ph.D serves as Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Juran has lectured or spoken around the world on topics of population and development, global health inequalities, population and health data, research and policy formulation practice and translating evidence into policies and programs. Dr. Juran is a development sociologist, with more than 15 years of international professional and management experience in the areas of population and development, data and policy, and global health. 

Dr. Juran has worked in all major areas of population research and policy.

Dr. Juran holds a degree (Diplom) in social sciences and a PhD in sociology from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany and is currently pursuing a post-doctoral degree in epidemiology at Munich’s Technical University, Germany. 

Sabrina performs stand-up comedy sometimes, with the ambition to use her stage time to educate others about topics such as population census, international migration, the power of maps, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) using engaging communication techniques and bringing new ideas to unexpected places. 

Sabrina Juran, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine

Affiliates

  • United Nations Population Fund, Technical Division, Population and Development Branch, New York, NY, Unites States of America: www.unfpa.org
  • Epidemiology, Department for Sport and Health Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany: https://www.sg.tum.de/en/epidemiologie/team/

Harvard Medical School
641 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115

Dr. Juran’s research interest is in building systems to reduce inequalities and vulnerabilities in access to health care, with a particular focus on diseases amenable to surgery. Her research uses geospatial mapping techniques to identify geographical and socioeconomic health inequalities at a global, regional and national level by systematically studying aspects of vulnerabilities and resilience.Program in Global Surgery and Social Change.

Plastic Surgery Statistics in the US: Evidence and Implications.
Authors: Authors: Heidekrueger PI, Juran S, Patel A, Tanna N, Broer PN.
Aesthetic Plast Surg
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The Role of Plastic Surgeons in Advancing Global Development.
Authors: Authors: Broer PN, Jenny HE, Ng-Kamstra JS, Juran S.
Ann Plast Surg
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Aesthetic breast shape preferences among plastic surgeons.
Authors: Authors: Broer PN, Juran S, Walker ME, Ng R, Weichman K, Tanna N, Liu YJ, Shah A, Patel A, Persing JA, Thomson JG.
Ann Plast Surg
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Abstract 156: plastic surgery - quo vadis? Current trends and future projections of aesthetic plastic surgical procedures in the United States of america.
Authors: Authors: Broer PN, Juran S.
Plast Reconstr Surg
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Plastic surgery: quo vadis? Current trends and future projections of aesthetic plastic surgical procedures in the United States.
Authors: Authors: Broer PN, Levine SM, Juran S.
Plast Reconstr Surg
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The impact of geographic, ethnic, and demographic dynamics on the perception of beauty.
Authors: Authors: Broer PN, Juran S, Liu YJ, Weichman K, Tanna N, Walker ME, Ng R, Persing JA.
J Craniofac Surg
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