Staff Bio
Juliana Cyril, PhD, MPH
Office of Science Senior Advisor for Innovation and Extramural Research.
CDC role
As Senior Advisor for Technology Transfer, Innovation, and Extramural Research, Dr. Cyril provides leadership and expertise to promote and optimize the timely transfer of knowledge, innovation, and technology into products, devices and procedures that improve public health. She also helps to implement and inform policies, processes, and procedures that enable the execution of CDC extramural research programs.
Previous experience
Dr. Cyril joined CDC in 2000 as a Health Scientist in the Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center for Environmental Health. In 2004, she joined the newly formed Office of Public Health Research in OS. Two years later, she became Associate Director for Policy and Peer Review responsible for developing and promoting extramural research policies and practices across CDC. In this role, she was responsible for overseeing $20 million in research awards. She was critical to developing the institutional framework for CDC extramural research administration.
In 2010, Dr. Cyril became the Deputy Director of the Office of Science Quality in OS responsible for managing office operations and acting as an advisor for extramural research throughout the agency. Two years later, Dr. Cyril assumed the role of Director of the Office of Technology and Innovation.
Prior to pursuing graduate studies, Dr. Cyril worked for two years as a Research Associate in the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco.