Sabrina Juran

PhD, Development Sociologist, Mama

Sabrina Juran, Ph.D is a development sociologist, with 15 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, mama, and sometimes stand-up comedian.

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Dr. Sabrina Juran is a development sociologist, with more than 15 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 Regional Advisor on Data and Population Dynamics at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Latin America and the Caribbean.During her career at the Fund, Dr. Juran has led strategic initiatives across all major domains of population research, supporting over one hundred National Statistical Offices in transforming their national population data systems, with the population census as the statistical backbone.
At UNFPA, she has spearheaded the capacity development of more than 400 national statisticians and policy analysts across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and has directed and advised national efforts in data collection, census operations, and survey data analysis.Throughout her career, she has positioned data and development issues at the forefront of global and national agendas, influencing platforms such as the United Nations Statistical Commission, National Policy Dialogues, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, and the World Data Forum. Dr. Juran also 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 affiliated as a postdoctoral researcher in epidemiology at the Technical University of Munich, 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 in Global Health and Social Medicine with the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School.She 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 occasionally takes to the stage as a stand-up comedian, using humor and storytelling to spark curiosity about population censuses, international migration, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).She explores artistic expressions of demographic trends, including the use of 3D data sculptures and immersive visuals to make complex dynamics accessible and engaging to diverse audiences.By blending data with narrative and art, Dr. Juran aims to bring new ideas to unexpected places and people. She is deeply passionate about addressing imbalances in empathy, and believes that creativity and humor are powerful tools to advance understanding and connection in the field of population and development.Sabrina enjoys exploring the world with and through the eyes of her young daughter, and is also an avid runner, mapping every route she takes. She loves chocolate.

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Vidas en riesgo: Uniones tempranas y mortalidad materna en América Latina
Authors: Sabrina Juran, Carlos Arturo Ramirez Hernandez, Rocío Muñoz Flores, Alejandra Alzérreca. UNFPA Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office, UNDRR Regional Office for the Americas and the CaribbeanGuía Metodológica para el Análisis de Datos Censales con Enfoque de Género. Panamá, Panamá.
Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas (UNFPA), Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo y Entidad de las Naciones Unidas para la Igualdad de Género y el Empoderamiento de las Mujeres (ONU Mujeres). (2025).Demographic Intelligence for Disaster Risk Reduction: Estimating Population Exposure to Multiple Hazards in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Authors: Sabrina Juran, Luis de la Rúa, Philippe Lust-Bianchi, Juan Pablo Protto, Mario Salgado Galvez, Aline Marsicano. UNFPA Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office, UNDRR Regional Office for the Americas and the CaribbeanCrossing the Border. Measuring the Contribution of International Migration to Human Development.
Author: Sabrina Juran. Randers C: Phoenix Design Aid A/S. 2016QGIS 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 ARTICLESAvailability of laparoscopic surgery in Mexico's public health system: a nationwide retrospective analysis.
Bryce-Alberti M, Campos LN, Dey T, Del Valle DD, Hill SK, Zaigham M, Vela A, Juran S, Anderson GA, Uribe-Leitz T. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2023 Jul 17;24:100556. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2023.100556. PMID: 37521438; PMCID: PMC10372900.Protecting pregnant women from climate disasters: Strategies in the aftermath of Pakistan's devastating flood.
Zaigham M, Bryce-Alberti M, Campos LN, Forbes C, Naus AE, Pigeolet M, Hill SK, Sana H, Ehsan AN, Samad L, Uribe-Leitz T, McClain CD, Juran S. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2023 Nov;163(2):348-351. doi: 10.1002/ijgo.14896. Epub 2023 Jun 5. PMID: 37272595.High-resolution gridded population datasets for Latin America and the Caribbean using official statistics.
McKeen T, Bondarenko M, Kerr D, Esch T, Marconcini M, Palacios-Lopez D, Zeidler J, Valle RC, Juran S, Tatem AJ, Sorichetta A. Sci Data. 2023 Jul 7;10(1):436. doi: 10.1038/s41597-023-02305-w. PMID: 37419895; PMCID: PMC10328919.Geospatial mapping of surgical systems for earthquake emergency planning in Guerrero, Mexico: an ecological study.
Campos LN, Bryce-Alberti M, Hill SK, Del Valle DD, Zaigham M, Rábago AR, Dey T, Juran S, Uribe-Leitz T. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2023 Sep 7;26:100586. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2023.100586. PMID: 37701459; PMCID: PMC10493591.Access to paediatric surgery: the geography of inequality in Nigeria.
El Vilaly MAS, Jones MA, Stankey MC, Seyi-Olajide J, Onajin-Obembe B, Dasogot A, Klug SJ, Meara J, Ameh EA, Osagie OO, Juran S. BMJ Glob Health. 2021 Oct;6(10):e006025. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006025. PMID: 34697085; PMCID: PMC8547353.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 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.

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