Julia’s research interests include families impacted by substance use disorders and intersections between families and public service systems. Previously, Julia served as the Women and Families Service Coordinator for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Bureau of Substance Addiction Services, where she focused on improving the structural design of addiction treatment and community-based service systems to better serve women, perinatal women, and families. Julia received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School for International Public Health in the Maternal and Child Health Department, a master’s degree from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Human Development and Child Study at Tufts University and a BA from Duke University.