Overview
Julian Hertz, MD, MSc, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine & Global Health. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and attended medical school at Duke University, where he received the Dean's Merit Scholarship and the Thomas Jefferson Award for leadership. He completed his residency training in emergency medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and his fellowship in Global Health at Duke.
Dr. Hertz's primary interests include global health, implementation science, and undergraduate and graduate medical education. Dr. Hertz's research focuses on using implementation science methods to improve cardiovascular care both locally and globally. His current projects involve developing interventions to improve acute myocardial infarction care in Tanzania, to improve management of hypertension among Tanzanians with HIV, and to improve post-hospital care among patients with multimorbidity in East Africa.
Dr. Hertz has received numerous awards for clinical, educational, and research excellence, including the Duke Emergency Medicine Faculty Teacher of the Year Award, the Duke Emergency Medicine Faculty Clinician of the Year Award, and the Duke Emergency Medicine Faculty Researcher of the Year Award. He has also received the Golden Apple Teaching Award from the Duke medical student body, the Duke Master Clinician/Teacher Award, and the Global Academic Achievement Award from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Hertz's primary interests include global health, implementation science, and undergraduate and graduate medical education. Dr. Hertz's research focuses on using implementation science methods to improve cardiovascular care both locally and globally. His current projects involve developing interventions to improve acute myocardial infarction care in Tanzania, to improve management of hypertension among Tanzanians with HIV, and to improve post-hospital care among patients with multimorbidity in East Africa.
Dr. Hertz has received numerous awards for clinical, educational, and research excellence, including the Duke Emergency Medicine Faculty Teacher of the Year Award, the Duke Emergency Medicine Faculty Clinician of the Year Award, and the Duke Emergency Medicine Faculty Researcher of the Year Award. He has also received the Golden Apple Teaching Award from the Duke medical student body, the Duke Master Clinician/Teacher Award, and the Global Academic Achievement Award from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
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2023 - Present
Emergency Medicine,
Clinical Science Departments
Associate Research Professor of Global Health
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2023 - Present
Duke Global Health Institute,
University Institutes and Centers
Recent Publications
Sustainability and normalization of an intervention to improve evidence-based myocardial infarction care in Tanzania.
Journal Article Implement Sci Commun · January 15, 2026 BACKGROUND: The Multicomponent Intervention to Improve Acute Myocardial Infarction Care (MIMIC) was developed to address gaps in AMI diagnosis and treatment in northern Tanzania. Although initial implementation was promising, many quality improvement inter ... Full text Open Access Link to item CiteThe prevalence of HIV among patients with cardiovascular disease in a Tanzanian emergency department: results from a prospective observational study.
Journal Article AIDS Care · December 15, 2025 OBJECTIVES: Persons living with HIV (PLWH) face double the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared to others. We assessed HIV prevalence among patients presenting to a Tanzanian emergency department (ED) with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or hear ... Full text Link to item CiteAdapting an intervention to improve hypertension care for adults with HIV in Tanzania: Co-design of the Community Health Worker Optimization of Antihypertensive Care in HIV (COACH) intervention.
Journal Article medRxiv · November 27, 2025 INTRODUCTION: There is a large burden of uncontrolled hypertension among people with HIV (PWH) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including in Tanzania. Yet, few evidence-based interventions to improve hypertension control have been adapted for use in PWH in thi ... Full text Open Access Link to item CiteRecent Grants
Adapting and Piloting an Evidence-based Intervention to Improve Hypertension Care among Tanzanians Living with HIV
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Fogarty International Center · 2023 - 2026Developing an intervention to improve quality of myocardial infarction care in northern Tanzania
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2021 - 2026Myocardial infarction among persons living with HIV in Tanzania
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Roche Diagnostics · 2019 - 2024View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Duke University, School of Medicine ·
2013
M.D.
Princeton University ·
2007
B.A.