Julie Pavlin is the director, Board on Global Health at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine where she coordinates analyses of health developments beyond US borders, and areas of international health investment that promote global well-being, security, and economic development. Her prior work concentrated on development of infectious disease surveillance systems for the early detection of outbreaks. She was a research area director at the Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, the deputy director of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center and as a US army officer, held assignments at the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences in Bangkok, Thailand, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases. Julie received her Ph.D. in Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Uniformed Services University and M.P.H from Harvard University.