{"id":25655,"date":"2017-01-30T16:59:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T21:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/?page_id=25655"},"modified":"2019-10-03T12:35:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T16:35:02","slug":"lawrence-were","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/lawrence-were\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Were"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty Associate<br \/>\nAssistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Sargent College;<br \/>\nAssistant Professor, Department of Global Health, School of Public Health<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:werelpo@bu.edu\">werelpo@bu.edu<\/a><br \/>\n617-358-2656<\/p>\n<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<p>PhD, Brown University<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25656 \" src=\"\/pardee\/files\/2017\/01\/LawrenceWere.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2017\/01\/LawrenceWere.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2017\/01\/LawrenceWere-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2017\/01\/LawrenceWere-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2017\/01\/LawrenceWere-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/files\/2017\/01\/LawrenceWere-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Biography<\/h3>\n<p>Lawrence Were is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Boston University\u2019s College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College, and in the Department of Global Health at the BU School of Public Health. His research focuses on application of health economics in the estimation of the impact of reforms within healthcare systems and health insurance programs on the outcomes of marginalized and high risk populations such as informal traders and HIV+ individuals including pregnant women and their children. He is also interested in Global Health and HIV\/AIDS financing mechanisms and Geo-Spatial aspects of public health. He has research projects in Kenya, Ghana, and Nepal. Were teaches courses in Comparative Healthcare Systems; Global Health; Social Determinants of Health; and Research Methods. He received his PhD in Health Services Research (HSR) \u2013 Health Economics track from the Department of Health Services Policy &amp; Practice (HSPP) at Brown University\u2019s School of Public Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty Associate Assistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Sargent College; Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health, School of Public Health werelpo@bu.edu 617-358-2656 Education PhD, Brown University Biography Lawrence Were is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Boston University\u2019s College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College, and in the Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10270,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":54,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29108,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25655\/revisions\/29108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}