Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Epidemiology
Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology
Associate Chief for Research and Professional Development, UNC Infectious Diseases
Associate Director, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases
Dr. Jonathan Juliano is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine and a Professor of Epidemiology at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina. He is also a preceptor in UNC’s Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology. Dr. Juliano also acts as the Associate Director of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and is the Associate Chief for Research and Professional Development for the Infectious Disease division.
Dr. Juliano got his B.Sc. with Distinction from University of Toronto with a double major in Microbiology and History. He received his MSPH at the UNC School of Public Health working with Dr. Mark Sobsey on methods to isolate Cryptosporium parvum from surface and waste water. After completion of his MSPH, he attended the UNC School of Medicine and received his MD in 2001. He then completed his combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. He returned home to Chapel Hill for his infectious disease fellowship in 2005. His fellowship mentor was Dr. Steven Meshnick in the Department of Epidemiology, who help start Dr. Juliano’s career in malaria research.
Since joining the faculty at UNC in 2009, Dr. Juliano has been very active in the education of medical students, graduate students, residents and fellows. His successes in mentoring were honored with being awarded one of four 2016 Distinguished Teaching Awards for Post-Baccalaureate Teaching by UNC, a highly competitive campus wide award. He runs a molecular parasitology and genetics laboratory in MBRB, in which he works with students at all levels. The impact of his research program has been recognized by induction into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) in 2019 and induction as a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (FIDSA) and American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (FASTMH). He received the Bailey K. Ashford Medal from the ASTMH in 2024.
