Julia de Kadt

Julia is a Senior Researcher at the GCRO, with a particular focus on supporting the Quality of Life Survey. She has a long-standing interest in the use of various empirical data, including large-scale surveys, to better understand post-apartheid South Africa. Substantively, Julia is particularly interested in issues facing youth, and access to services such as health, education, and economic opportunity.

Julia earned her PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2011. Her thesis explored the distances which primary school children in Johannesburg travel to attend school in the immediate post-apartheid period, relying on data from a range of sources, including the Birth to Twenty Cohort study. She also holds a Masters in political science and public policy from Princeton University, and a Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

More recently, Julia has worked with I-TECH South Africa, and the Centre for Health Policy at Wits University, on a range of research projects exploring different approaches to the provision of health care services in South Africa, with a particular focus on the potential role of Community Health Workers.