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Grand Rounds Lecture by Dr. Jacob Bor
May 1 |4pm – 5:30pm | Room 708 | RSVP
Jacob Bor, SD
Assistant Professor of Global Health, Boston University
Jacob Bor, ScD, SM, is Assistant Professor and Peter T. Paul Career Development Professor in the Departments of Global Health and Epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. His research applies the analyticaltools of economics and data science to the study of population health, with focus areas on HIV treatment and prevention in southern Africa and on U.S. health disparities. His current research interests include economic spillover effects of HIV treatment on patients, households, and communities;decision-making in HIV-endemic risk environments; population health impacts of social policy; and causal inference in public health research. His work has been published in Science, Lancet, PLOS Medicine, and other journals. Prior to his graduate training at Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Bor worked with an HIV-prevention NGO in Botswana, Lesotho, and South Africa.
He is a faculty affiliate of BU’s Global Development Policy Center and junior faculty fellow at the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science. He is a Senior Researcher at the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office and a visiting researcher at the Africa Health Research Institute, both in South Africa.
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