Rate My Professor Giulia Muraca

Dr. Giulia Muraca is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact at McMaster University. She is a perinatal epidemiologist whose research focuses on maternal, fetal, and neonatal health and health services research, with an emphasis on care quality, accessibility, and equity. Dr. Muraca received her B.Sc. in Biological Anthropology and African Studies from the University of Toronto. She earned her M.P.H. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of British Columbia, where her doctoral research characterized maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality associated with deliveries requiring forceps, vacuum, and cesarean delivery. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Clinical Epidemiology Unit at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, where she developed epidemiologic approaches to identify optimal intrapartum intervention rates that minimize adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes.

Dr. Muraca leads the Muraca Perinatal Epidemiology Research Lab (PERL) at McMaster University, which specializes in linking and analyzing large datasets to improve safety and well-being for mothers and babies across the life course. Her work contributes to population-based investigations of severe maternal morbidity, perinatal outcomes, and equity in maternity care. She holds appointments that support research and teaching in obstetrics, gynecology, and health research methods at the university.