{"id":15152,"date":"2013-04-29T14:58:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T18:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?page_id=15152"},"modified":"2020-01-06T14:08:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T19:08:16","slug":"susan-foster","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/susan-foster\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Foster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faculty Research Fellow<\/a>
\nProfessor, Department of International Health,
\nSchool of Public Health, Boston University
\nsfoster@bu.edu<\/a>
\n617-638-5397<\/p>\n

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Education<\/h3>\n

BA, University of Colorado; MA, Ohio University; PhD, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (University of London)<\/p>\n

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Expertise<\/h3>\n

Economics of infectious disease; international public health; public health and development.<\/p>\n

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\"Susie<\/a>Biography<\/h3>\n

Susan Foster\u2019s research focuses on the economics of infectious disease, particularly antibiotic and antimicrobial resistance, malaria, HIV\/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, and TB.\u00a0 She is involved in several research projects, primarily in Africa.<\/p>\n

Prof. Foster served in the Peace Corps in Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Cameroon, worked as a Young Professional within the World Bank’s Population, Health and Nutrition Department and was seconded to the World Health Organization’s Essential Drugs Program in Geneva. She then joined the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine as Senior Lecturer in Health Economics, and was course organizer for the master of science program in Public Health in Developing Countries. She was appointed the School’s first Distance Learning Coordinator. She has also done work in Burundi, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Zambia, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Madagascar, Indonesia and Malaysia. \u00a0At the BU School of Public Health, she teaches courses including Pathogens, Poverty and Populations, Seminar on International Health Policy Issues, and Confronting Non-communicable Diseases. \u00a0She speaks French, Spanish and Portuguese.<\/p>\n

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