Julia Doetsch

Julia Nadine Doetsch was born in Neuwied, Germany in 1991. In 2016, she obtained her Master`s degree in Global Health (Msc) and in 2015 her Bachelor`s degree in European Public Health (Bsc) at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University, the Netherlands. In 2014, she additionally studied Public health with a focus on Nutritional-, and Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Health Psychology, Food and Nutrition Policy, European Food and Nutrition, and Occupational Health, as a selected minor period within her studies, at the University of Eastern Finland, in Kuopio. During her Msc, she was transnational group member of an intra-disciplinary team of McMaster University (Canada), Thammasat University (Thailand) and Maastricht University (Netherlands) and concluded this online program at the `Global health Learning Symposium` in Manipal, India, in 2016. She completed her placement (2015) and research internship (2016) at the “EURO-HEALTHY” project, a Horizon 2020 research project, at Coimbra University, Portugal.

Between 2016- 2018 she worked at the aforementioned project as a research assistant. In 2017, she was a member of the Local organizing committee of the Internalstional Conference on Urban Health (ICUH2017). Since Februrary 2018 she has been working at the Instituto de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto (ISPUP) within the Epidemiology Research Unit (EPIUnit) in the research group Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology. Between 2018-2021 she was employed as a research assistant at the RECAP preterm project. She is currently doing her PhD in Public Health Externalslly at Maastricht University (UM), within the School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), supervised by the aforementioned institutions (UM and ISPUP) jointly. Her PhD research interests are socio-economic inequalities in healthcare access and quality for vulnerable population groups in Portugal impacted by macro-socioeconomic determinants.