Julia Rosenbaum describes herself as a bridge builder and midwife of innovation — a seasoned program designer, trainer, action-researcher and evaluator who applies Dialogue Education™ to human-centered design and implementation. She thrives bringing together diverse stakeholders to collaboratively (re)design programs and products that improve well-being, expand access, and advance equity — drawing on mixed methods research and group mobilization to surface behavioral insights, incorporate them into programming, and monitor impact.
Her relationship with Dialogue Education began in the 1990s — the exact year eludes her, but the life change it rendered is unforgettable, bringing together disparate disciplines and passions under one transformative framework. Julia served on GLP’s board of directors from 2020–2024.
Rooted in public health and medical anthropology, Julia built her career at FHI 360 and AED, working across communities in the US and 33 countries in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. She collaborated with USAID, WHO, and UNICEF to pioneer integrated nutrition, WASH, child development, and health programming, and is co-developer of the BEHAVE Framework for Program Planning (adapted as Designing for Behavior Change), applied by hundreds of organizations worldwide. An avid cyclist and champion of girls’ empowerment, she collaborated with World Bicycle Relief to test the impact of increased mobility on girls’ school attendance and health outcomes. (It works!) After decades of strengthening capacity and fostering innovation both domestically and internationally, the dismantling of US global health funding has led her to put those skills and passions to work closer to home. A fluent Spanish speaker, Julia holds an ScM from Harvard School of Public Health and a Medical Anthropology degree from the University of Michigan.