{"id":57987,"date":"2015-06-29T11:01:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T15:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=57987"},"modified":"2019-10-10T16:59:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T20:59:15","slug":"jacob-bor","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/jacob-bor\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Bor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Jacob Bor, ScD, SM, joined the faculty in September 2013 as Assistant Professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cghd\/\">Department of International Health and Center for Global Health &amp; Development<\/a>. His research applies the analytical tools of economics to the study of population health, with a focus on HIV treatment and prevention in southern Africa. 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. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>His work has been published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/journals\">Science<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.lww.com\/epidem\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Epidemiology<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthaffairs.org\/\">Health Affairs<\/a>. 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.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/57987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/57987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70383,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/57987\/revisions\/70383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}