‘Bostonia’ Story Features SPH Researchers Helping Shape AIDS Policy in South Africa.

For the past eight years, BUSPH researchers have collaborated with colleagues in South Africa to collect and analyze data to help shape public health programs that treat almost two million people.

The Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO), a collaboration of Boston University public health experts and researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand, has embarked on more than 20 studies, most of which focus on better treatment of HIV and tuberculosis. The group’s work, which has mainly been funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has been influential, not only on the design of national health care policy, but also on the international funders of AIDS treatment programs. Sydney Rosen, a School of Public Health research associate professor of international health, and Matthew Fox (SPH’02,’07), an SPH assistant professor of epidemiology, both at BU’s Center for Global Health & Development (CGHD) and HE2RO codirectors, have been collecting data, running it through algorithms that produce more data, then delivering it to the National Department of Health.

Read the full story in Bostonia’s summer edition.