{"id":42968,"date":"2016-01-12T15:14:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T20:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=42968"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:12:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:12:02","slug":"lawrence-were","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/profile\/lawrence-were\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Were, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Scholarly, Research, and\/or Practical Interests<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Lawrence Were&#8217;s 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.<\/p>\n<h2>Selected Publications<\/h2>\n<p>Lists of published works:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1347-3686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ORCID<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.ca\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=ayZegDEAAAAJ\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5825,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/42968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5825"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/42968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86360,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/42968\/revisions\/86360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}