Lora Sabin

Lora is a professor of global health in the Department of Global Health, where she also serves as Director of Education. Since joining the School of Public Health in 2001, Lora has conducted applied research on behavioral interventions and applied economics related to HIV, malaria, and other infectious diseases, child and adolescent health, and maternal health in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Her current and recent major projects include assessing effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of combined interventions to improve HIV treatment and retention outcomes in South Africa; analyzing the cost-effectiveness of implementing interventions to improve the health of veterans across the US; designing and implementing HIV treatment interventions for adolescents in Kenya; evaluating implementation and effectiveness of providing long-acting injectable HIV treatment in non-hospital sites in a US urban center; studying the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a hospital quality improvement intervention in Ghana; assessing the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of triggered reminders to improve HIV treatment retention and adherence among pregnant and post-partum women in Uganda; and evaluating interactive text messaging to improve knowledge and continuing medical education among community-based health workers and HIV providers in Vietnam. In addition to her research, Lora serves as Director of the school’s Program Management certificate and teaches courses in health economics; program management in global settings; and poverty, health, and development. She also co-directs a module that focuses on data, determinants, and decision-making for public health in the school’s new online MPH program. Lora has taught in numerous executive and professional training programs based in the US (Harvard University, Duke University) and was a member of the core faculty of the Vietnam AIDS Policy and Planning Project, a training program designed to strengthen the response to the HIV epidemic for local and national government officials in Vietnam. Before joining the BUSPH, Lora was based at the Asia Public Policy Program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and at the Harvard Institute for International Development, including serving as the resident Academic Director of the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from 1998-2001. She has lived in East Asia for ten years and has taught at universities and academic centers in China, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Lora holds a MA in East Asian Studies and PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University.