Julia C. Gage
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Milken Institute School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Julia C. Gage | |
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 Gage in 2019 | |
| Alma mater | Grinnell College Milken Institute School of Public Health Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cancer epidemiology, cervical screening, HPV |
| Institutions | National Cancer Institute |
| Doctoral advisor | Janet Holbrook |
Julia C. Gage is an American cancer epidemiologist who researches cervical screening and the human papillomavirus infection. She is a staff scientist in the clinical genetics branch at the National Cancer Institute.
Gage completed a B.A. in political science with a concentration in Latin American studies from Grinnell College in 1995.[1] From October 1996 to August 1998, she worked for AFL–CIO as an Organizing Institute apprentice and later a union organizer for the Service Employees International Union.[1] Gage worked for the Maxwell Stamp, Inc. in Washington, D.C. as a business development and research assistant from September 1998 to March 2000.[1]
From March 2000 to February 2002, Gage was a research assistant and consultant in the non-communicable disease program of the Pan American Health Organization where she primarily used Spanish and designed study protocols.[1] In 2001, she earned a M.P.H. in international health promotion from the George Washington Milken Institute School of Public Health.[1] Between September 2002 to August 2004, Gage worked at the Health Resources and Services Administration, first as a scholar and then as a public health analyst in the office of data and information management in the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.[1]
In 2005, Gage joined the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) division of cancer epidemiology and genetics (DCEG) as a pre-doctoral fellow while pursuing a Ph.D. in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[2] She completed her Ph.D. in epidemiology in 2008. Her dissertation was titled, An evaluation of visual triage of human papillomavirus-positive women.[1] Janet Holbrook was her doctoral advisor and Mark Schiffman of NCI was her mentor.[1] Gage completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the NCI, first in the hormonal and reproductive epidemiology branch, and then in the clinical genetics branch (CGB).[2]
