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Biography
Juliet Addo is a Clinical Research Director in Global Health R&D at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). She joined the GSK non-communicable diseases (NCDs) Open Lab in 2016
and is currently part of the Global Health Catalyst team working in collaboration with academic partners to address major global health problems. She is a physician and
epidemiologist by training, and was a lecturer in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) prior to joining GSK. Her research has
focused on cardiovascular diseases and their risk factors including strokes, hypertension and diabetes and the ethnic and socioeconomic differences in these. She is a
member of the Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) Board of the Royal College of Physicians and an Honorary Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at
the LSHTM.