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Julia Lechuga received her doctorate degree in Health Psychology from the University of Texas at El Paso. She completed her post doctorate degree at the Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR) at the Medical College of Wisconsin. During her post doctorate, she worked as part of an interdisciplinary team developing and testing behavior change interventions to promote sexual and reproductive health and reduce infectious disease risk in Latinx populations with substance use disorder.
Between 2018 and 2021, she was a visiting professor fellow at the University of California San Francisco where she acquired expertise in innovative methodologies to optimize bio behavioral interventions to promote linkage into care among people who inject drugs living with HIV.