Sabrina Juran

PhD, Development Sociologist, Mom

Sabrina Juran, Ph.D is a development sociologist, with more than 10 years of international professional and management experience in the areas of population and development, data and policy, adolescents and youth, as well as sexual and reproductive health.She is also a spouse, mom, and sometimes stand-up comedian.

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Dr. Sabrina Juran is a development sociologist, with more than 10 years of international professional and management experience in the areas of population and development, data and policy, adolescents and youth, as well as sexual and reproductive health.She works as a Senior Technical Specialist for Population Census and Geospatial Data at the Technical Division of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).During her career at the Fund, Dr. Juran has worked in all major areas of population research and supported over one hundred National Statistical Offices in their efforts to strengthen their national population data system, focusing on the population census as the statistical backbone.At UNFPA, she has trained more than 400 national statisticians and policy analysts from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and coordinated and oversaw national efforts of data collection as well as census and survey data analysis. Throughout her career she has brought key issues of data and development to the highest level of the political agenda, including the United Nations Statistical Commission, National Policy Dialogues, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data or the World Data Forum. Dr. Juran serves on the IPUMS-International Advisory Panel (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series [IPUMS]).Dr. Juran holds a Master’s degree (Diplom) in social sciences and a PhD (Summa cum Laude) in sociology from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany and is currently pursuing a post doctoral degree in epidemiology at Munich’s Technical University, Germany.
Her academic interest is in building systems to reduce inequalities in access to health care, with a particular focus on diseases amenable to surgery. Her research aims at identifying geographical and socioeconomic health inequalities at a global, regional and national level by systematically studying aspects of vulnerabilities and resilience. Dr. Juran serves as Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Juran has lectured or spoken around the world on topics of population and development, global health inequalities, population and health data, research and policy formulation practice and translating evidence into policies and programmes.Sabrina performs stand-up comedy sometimes, with the ambition to use her stage time to educate others about topics such as population census, international migration, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) using engaging communication techniques and bringing new ideas to unexpected places. Dr. Juran is passionate about addressing current imbalances in empathy.In her spare time, Sabrina is an avid runner, mapping every route she runs, and loves chocolate.

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Crossing the Border. Measuring the Contribution of International Migration to Human Development.
Author: Sabrina Juran
Randers C: Phoenix Design Aid A/S. 2016
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QGIS for Digital Cartography in Censuses and Surveys.
Editor: Sabrina Juran, Authors: Luis de la Rua and Phil Bright (Pacific Community)
© United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Pacific Community (SPC) 2020The importance of geographic and demographic data from census for locating and mapping vulnerable populations
Authors: Jones M, Moeller EA, Meara JG, Juran S.
Statistical Journal of the IAOS 36 (2021)
UNFPA Strategy for the 2020 round of population and housing censuses (2015–2024).
Authors: Jhamba T, Juran S, Jones M and Snow R.
Statistical Journal of the IAOS 36 (2020) 43–50.Journal Articles
The need to collect, aggregate, and analyze global anesthesia and surgery data.
Authors: Juran S, Gruendl M, Marks IH, Broer PN, Guzman JM, Davies J, Shrime M, Johnson W, Holmer H, Peck G, Makasa E, Hagander L, Klug SJ, Meara JG, Gelb AW, Ljungman D.
Can J Anaesth 2019-02-01Herausforderungen der globalen Humanitären Krise: medizinische Versorgung der MigrantInnen- und Flüchtlingsbevölkerung.
Authors: Juran S, Gruendl M, Müller C, Heidekrueger P.I., Broer P.N.
Dtsch Arztebl 2018; 115(23): A-1120 / B-942 / C-938Geospatial mapping of access to timely essential surgery in sub-Saharan Africa.
Authors: Juran S, Broer PN, Klug SJ, Snow RC, Okiro EA, Ouma PO, Snow RW, Tatem AJ, Meara JG, Alegana VA.
BMJ Glob Health 2018-01-01Global Surgery & Anaesthesia Statistics The Importance of Data Collection.
Authors: Juran S, Ljungman D, Gruendl M and Marks I. (2018)
German Global Surgery Association / Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School / The G4 Alliance.Spatially disaggregated population estimates in the absence of national population and housing census data
Authors: Wardrop NA, Jochem C, Bird TJ, Chamberlain H, Clarke D, Kerr D, Bengtsson L, Juran S, Seaman V and Tatem AJ.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PNAS March 19, 2018. 201715305Surgical Needs of Refugee Populations in the European Union: Implications for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Authors: Niclas Broer P, Juran S.
World J Plast Surg 2016-09-01The Potential of the 2010 Population and Housing Census Round for International Migrant Analysis.
Authors: Juran S, and Snow R (2018).
Statistical Journal of the IAOS.Safe and sustainable: the extracranial approach toward frontoethmoidal meningoencephalocele repair.
Authors: Heidekrueger, P. Thu, M. Mühlbauer, W. Holm-Mühlbauer, C. Schucht, P. Anderl, H. Schoeneich, H. Aung, K. Ag, M. Soe Myint, A. Juran, S. Aung, T. Ehrl, D. Ninkovic, M. Broer, PN
J Neurosurg Pediatr July 14, 2017The Potential of the 2010 Population and Housing Census Round for International Migration Analysis.
Authors: Juran, S. and R. Snow.
Background Paper presented at the IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre International Conference: ‘Improving Data on International Migration’ Towards Agenda 2030 and the Global Compact on Migration.The 2010 Census Round (2005 – 2014).
Authors: Juran, S. and A. Pistiner
Statistical Journal of the IAOS, June 2017 issue (Volume 33, No. 2).A Profile of Germany’s Refugee Populations.
Authors: Juran, S. and PN. Broer.
Population and Development Review. March 2017 issue.The Role of Plastic Surgeons in Advancing Development Global.
Authors: Broer PN, Jenny HE, Ng-Kamstra JS, Juran S.
World J Plast Surg 2016-05-01International Migration Seen through the Lens of Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach.
Authors: Juran, S.
Migration Policy Practice. Vol. VI, Number 2, April - May 2016.The impact of geographic, ethnic, and demographic dynamics on the perception of beauty.
Authors: Broer PN, Juran S, Liu YJ, Weichman K, Tanna N, Walker ME, Ng R, Persing JA.
J Craniofac Surg 2014-01-01

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