Julia C. Thome, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she is a member of the Center for Health Systems and Policy Modeling and the Department of Biostatistics.  

Dr. Thome earned her PhD in Biostatistics from Vanderbilt University in 2024. Her research focuses on causal inference methods for assessing the impacts of health policies. While at Vanderbilt, she worked on projects to study the effects of Medicaid expansion on HIV outcomes and the impact of COVID-19 on child maltreatment reporting. Dr. Thome also collaborated with the Center of Excellence for Children in State Custody at Vanderbilt University to enhance the quality of services provided to children involved in child welfare or juvenile justice systems.

Prior to Vanderbilt, Julia received a BA in Mathematics from Cornell College.