Staff Bio
Juliana Cyril, PhD, MPH
Juliana Cyril, PhD, MPH, is Senior Advisor for Innovation and Extramural Research in the Office of Science.
Role at CDC
Dr. Cyril oversees the agency’s technology transfer portfolio, advises on innovation activities to accelerate public health science to action, and provides oversight and coordination of extramural research, Extramural Research Program Offices (ERPOs), functions, and associated policies and practices.
Previous experience
Prior to this, Dr. Cyril was the Director of the Office of Technology and Innovation within OS. Dr. Cyril was responsible for planning, managing, and evaluating the programs of the Office of Technology and Innovation. As a senior member of the OS management team, Dr. Cyril participated in developing OS program policy and objectives, short- and long-tem goals, program strategies, and operating policies.
Dr. Cyril joined CDC in 2000 as a Health Scientist in the Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center for Environmental Health. In 2004, she joined the newly formed Office of Public Health Research in OS. Two years later, she became Associate Director Policy and Peer Review responsible for developing and promoting extramural research policies and practices across CDC. In this role, she was responsible for overseeing $20 million in research awards. She was critical to CDC’s successful institutionalization of the ERPO. In 2010, Dr. Cyril became the Deputy Director of the Office of Science Quality in OS responsible for managing office operations and acting as an advisor for extramural research throughout the agency. Two years later, Dr. Cyril assumed the role of Director of the Office of Technology and Innovation.
Areas of expertise
Dr. Cyril's office provides leadership and expertise to promote and optimize the timely transfer of knowledge, innovation, and technology into products, devices and procedures that improve public health.
Education
Dr. Cyril earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to pursuing graduate studies, she worked for two years as a Research Associate in the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Cyril earned her Master’s degree from the University of Washington in 1996 and a Doctoral degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in 2001.