Dr. Juliet Iwelunmor is a Professor of Medicine and an Associate Director for Global Health and Dissemination at WashU Medicine. A passionate advocate for health equity and sustainability, Dr. Iwelunmor is widely regarded for understanding how to make evidence-based interventions last, reshaping the focus on community engagement using participatory research, improving the dissemination of health information, while amplifying the voices of young people in health interventions. She combines more than a decade of authority and leadership in the use of dissemination and implementation science to deliver cutting-edge health programs that create tangible impact.
Prior to joining WashU Medicine, Dr. Iwelunmor has served as a Professor at Saint Louis University and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. From 2010-2013, she worked as a program specialist for the intersectoral platform on HIV at UNESCO in Paris, France.
Dr. Iwelunmor continues her commitment to amplifying the next generation of researchers, by leading NIH-funded programs such as NIAID STAR which seeks to stimulate training and access to HIV research experiences for under-represented scholars. She also leads the NIH-funded 4 Youth By Youth program and the 4 Girls & Women program, which works with young people to increase uptake and sustainability of evidence-based interventions in global settings. A graduate of Penn State University, where she earned her doctorate in Bio-behavioral Health and began her grant-writing journey as an NICHD pre-doctoral scholar, Dr. Iwelunmor is dedicated to advancing scientific excellence through inclusivity with grant-writing process among next generation of scholars, using her storytelling approach that inspires them to begin first with a dream. Her grant writing approach has earned her over $20 million in funding from the NIH.