William MacLeod
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William B. MacLeod, ScD

Research Associate Professor, Global Health - Boston University School of Public Health

617-358-3052
wmacleod@bu.edu
Crosstown Center - 372
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Biography

Bill is a public health data scientist with training in demography, epidemiology and biostatistics who uses his skills to answer policy relevant programmatic questions related to the management of HIV treatment programs. For the past 7 years, Bill has been based in South Africa where he has collaborated on research and monitoring & evaluation projects with South African government institutions. Bill is the Co-Principal Investigator of a USAID funded project that has developed dashboards and other tools for monitoring the HIV treatment program in South Africa. Bill is an internationally recognized expert on international clinical trials and has served on Data Safety and Monitoring Boards and Technical Advisory Groups for WHO and CDC sponsored international studies. Bill earned his Doctors and Master of Science in Population and International Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and his Bachelors in Arts in International Relations from the University of California at Davis. He spent three years as a policy analyst at the US Environmental Protection Agency in the Recycling Section of the Office of Solid Waste, and two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras.

Education

  • Harvard School of Public Health, ScD Field of Study: Epidemiology
  • Harvard School of Public Health, SM/ScM Field of Study: Population Sciences
  • University of California, Davis, BA Field of Study: Political Science

Websites

Classes Taught

  • SPHBS723
  • SPHGH854
  • SPHPH717

Publications

  • Published on 9/8/2025

    Lauren E, Shumba K, Fox MP, MacLeod W, Stevens W, Mlisana K, Bor J, Onoya D. Correction: The fall-And rise-In hospital-based care for people with HIV in South Africa: 2004-2017. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2025; 5(9):e0005169. PMID: 40920701.

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  • Published on 7/9/2025

    Shumba K, Bor J, Nattey C, Gareta D, Lauren E, Macleod W, Fox MP, Puren A, Mlisana K, Onoya D. Record linkage without patient identifiers: Proof of concept using data from South Africa's national HIV program. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2025; 5(7):e0004835. PMID: 40632720.

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  • Published on 5/31/2025

    Odom AR, Anderson J, Gill CJ, Pieciak R, Ismail A, MacLeod WB, Johnson WE, Lapidot R. Longitudinal Analysis of Nasopharyngeal Microbial Risk Markers for Fatal Acute Febrile Illness in a Zambian Birth Cohort. J Infect Dis. 2025 May 31. PMID: 40447275.

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  • Published on 5/19/2025

    MacLeod WB, Mwananyanda L, Kwenda G, Pieciak R, Mupila Z, Murphy C, Chikoti C, Forman L, Berklein F, Lapidot R, Ngoma B, Larson-Williams A, Lungu J, Nakazwe R, Nzara D, Yankonde B, Thea DM, Gill CJ. Bordetella pertussis -related Respiratory Deaths in Infants From 4 Days to 6 Months of Age, Results From a 3-Year, Prospective Postmortem Surveillance Study in Lusaka, Zambia. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2025 Jun 01; 44(6):489-495. PMID: 40106786.

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  • Published on 3/5/2025

    Ramirez-Zuniga I, MacLeod WB, Chikoti C, Kwenda G, Lapidot R, Gill CJ, Smith AM. Sequential Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Bacterial Infections in the Nasopharynx of Zambian Infants and Mothers. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2025 Mar 05; 44(8):717-727. PMID: 40063743.

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  • Published on 1/20/2025

    Wheelock A, Chasaya M, Namuziya N, Jumbe Marsden E, Kapasa M, Mumba C, Mulenga B, Nkole L, Pieciak R, Mudenda V, Chikoti C, Ngoma B, Chimoga C, Chirwa S, Pemba L, Nzara D, Lungu J, Forman L, MacLeod W, Moyo C, Wa Somwe S, Gill C. Using Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling and Determination of Cause of Death to Establish Etiologies of Community Respiratory Deaths Among Zambian Infants and Children. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2025 Jan 20; 14(1). PMID: 39786450.

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  • Published on 1/2/2025

    Nattey C, Onoya D, Shumba K, Gareta D, Macleod W, Fox MP, Puren A, Mlisana K, Bor J. Monitoring for advanced disease in the universal test and treat era: trends in CD4 count testing in South Africa. BMC Glob Public Health. 2025 Jan 02; 3(1):2. PMID: 39748443.

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  • Published on 11/1/2024

    Das S, Neupane R, Beard J, Solomon H, Das M, Errickson N, Simon JL, Nisar YB, MacLeod WB, Hamer DH. Aetiology of diarrhoea in children aged zero to nine years in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review. J Glob Health. 2024 Nov 01; 14:04168. PMID: 39485019.

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  • Published on 9/5/2024

    Lauren E, Shumba K, Fox MP, MacLeod W, Stevens W, Mlisana K, Bor J, Onoya D. The fall-And rise-In hospital-based care for people with HIV in South Africa: 2004-2017. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2024; 4(9):e0002127. PMID: 39236028.

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  • Published on 8/30/2024

    Odom AR, Gill CJ, Pieciak R, Ismail A, Thea D, MacLeod WB, Johnson WE, Lapidot R. Characterization of longitudinal nasopharyngeal microbiome patterns in maternally HIV-exposed Zambian infants. Gates Open Res. 2022; 6:143. PMID: 39345284.

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