{"id":9450,"date":"2016-11-15T11:30:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T16:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=9450"},"modified":"2023-10-20T11:16:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:16:04","slug":"jacob-bor","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/jacob-bor\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Bor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/jacob-bor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacob Bor<\/a> is an Associate Professor of Global Health &amp; Epidemiology at the School of Public Health. He <span>was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow in fall 2016. He is an assistant professor in the Departments of Global Health and Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health. His research applies the analytical tools of economics and data science to the study of population health. Research interests include the economic spillover effects of HIV treatment scale-up in southern Africa,\u00a0population health impacts of policy interventions, and\u00a0chronic disease management in low-resource settings.\u00a0Current work involves a novel record linkage of South Africa\u2019s national laboratory database, creating a\u00a0national patient cohort\u00a0in collaboration with BU and South African colleagues. He is a recipient of BU\u2019s Peter T. Paul Career Development Professorship and\u00a0a graduate of Harvard School of Public Health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=8g-t2zgAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar Profile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6673,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6673"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29599,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9450\/revisions\/29599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}