Juliana Bol

She has a Ph.D. in Health Systems from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, an MPH in Forced Migration and Health from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Bol has extensive experience in health systems strengthening (HSS) in fragile and conflicted-affected settings having worked in South Sudan between 2009-2014 with local and international non-governmental organizations to improve the quality of maternal and child health services which informed her Ph.D. thesis. Dr. Bol is currently evaluating the Health Pooled Fund program implemented for over 10 years in South Sudan, with a view of assessing the effectiveness of the HSS approach, which has required identifying appropriate methodologies in econometrics to analyze routine health facility data to estimate impact. She is also interested in assessing the performance, technical capacity and transaction costs of organizations as an accountability measure. Dr. Bol’s current research involves; i) assessing productive energy use among refugee entrepreneurs in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, ii) understanding changes in healthcare access for Syrian refugees living in Turkey after the February 2023 earthquake, iii) supporting feminist climate justice movements in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific through a Global Fund for Women USAID-funded project; iv) localizing the humanitarian response to provision of reproductive health and family planning services in Northern Uganda through institutional capacity-strengthening initiatives for refugee-led organizations (RLOs) and women-led organizations; v) working with youth living in Tigray, Ethiopia using Photovoice methodology to identify what well-being and safety means to them, after having experienced conflict between November 2020-November 2022. She also previously worked with teachers in a refugee settlement Hoima, Uganda to implement an arts curriculum for primary-school children.