Julia Sobolik

Julia Sobolik PhD, MS, MPH recently completed her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences at Emory University, where she focused on infectious disease exposure modeling, food safety, and environmental microbiology. She leveraged quantitative microbial risk assessment approaches to evaluate SARS-CoV-2 infection risks among essential food workers and to characterize norovirus infection risks among consumers of fresh produce. She also has ongoing work focused on health and access to hand hygiene and sanitation resources while working among migrant farmworkers in South Georgia, USA. Julia is the recipient of the 2023 Marshall Sherfield Fellowship and is completing her postdoctoral work in the Environmental Health Group at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Here she is conducting environmental sampling and exposure assessments to understand pathogen exposures within the household among young children (< 2 years of age) in low- and middle-income countries.