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

Websites

Classes Taught

  • SPHBS723
  • SPHGH854
  • SPHPH717

Publications

  • Published on 3/12/2024

    Sheppard RJ, Watson OJ, Pieciak R, Lungu J, Kwenda G, Moyo C, Chanda SL, Barnsley G, Brazeau NF, Gerard-Ursin ICG, Olivera Mesa D, Whittaker C, Gregson S, Okell LC, Ghani AC, MacLeod WB, Del Fava E, Melegaro A, Hines JZ, Mulenga LB, Walker PGT, Mwananyanda L, Gill CJ. Author Correction: Using mortuary and burial data to place COVID-19 in Lusaka, Zambia within a global context. Nat Commun. 2024 Mar 12; 15(1):2213. PMID: 38472189.

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  • Published on 10/17/2023

    Barnett ED, Wheelock AB, MacLeod WB, McCarthy AE, Walker PF, Coyle CM, Greenaway CA, Castelli F, López-Vélez R, Gobbi FG, Trigo E, Grobusch MP, Gautret P, Hamer DH, Kuhn S, Stauffer WM. Infections with long latency in international refugees, immigrants, and migrants seen at GeoSentinel sites, 2016-2018. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2023; 56:102653. PMID: 37852594.

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  • Published on 9/28/2023

    Odom AR, McClintock J, Gill CJ, Pieciak R, Ismail A, MacLeod WB, Johnson WE, Lapidot R. Analysis of nasopharyngeal microbiome patterns in Zambian infants with fatal acute febrile illness. bioRxiv. 2023 Sep 28. PMID: 37808661.

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  • Published on 7/21/2023

    Neupane R, Bhathena M, Das G, Long E, Beard J, Solomon H, Simon JL, Nisar YB, MacLeod WB, Hamer DH. Antibiotic resistance trends for common bacterial aetiologies of childhood diarrhoea in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review. J Glob Health. 2023 Jul 21; 13:04060. PMID: 37475599.

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  • Published on 7/13/2023

    McClintock J, Odom-Mabey AR, Kebere N, Ismail A, Mwananyanda L, Gill CJ, MacLeod WB, Pieciak RC, Lapidot R, Johnson WE. Postmortem Nasopharyngeal Microbiome Analysis of Zambian Infants With and Without Respiratory Syncytial Virus Disease: A Nested Case Control Study. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2023 Aug 01; 42(8):637-643. PMID: 37093853.

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  • Published on 6/29/2023

    Sheppard RJ, Watson OJ, Pieciak R, Lungu J, Kwenda G, Moyo C, Chanda SL, Barnsley G, Brazeau NF, Gerard-Ursin ICG, Olivera Mesa D, Whittaker C, Gregson S, Okell LC, Ghani AC, MacLeod WB, Del Fava E, Melegaro A, Hines JZ, Mulenga LB, Walker PGT, Mwananyanda L, Gill CJ. Using mortuary and burial data to place COVID-19 in Lusaka, Zambia within a global context. Nat Commun. 2023 Jun 29; 14(1):3840. PMID: 37380650.

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  • Published on 5/18/2023

    Osei-Poku GK, Mwananyanda L, Elliott PA, MacLeod WB, Somwe SW, Pieciak RC, Hamapa A, Gill CJ. Qualitative assessment of infant sleep practices and other risk factors of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) among mothers in Lusaka, Zambia. BMC Pediatr. 2023 May 18; 23(1):245. PMID: 37202764.

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  • Published on 5/15/2023

    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. Res Sq. 2023 May 15. PMID: 37292689.

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  • Published on 5/5/2023

    Jennings L, West RL, Halim N, Kaiser JL, Gwadz M, MacLeod WB, Gifford AL, Haberer JE, Orrell C, Sabin LL. Protocol for an evaluation of adherence monitoring and support interventions among people initiating antiretroviral therapy in Cape Town, South Africa-a multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) approach using a fractional factorial design. Trials. 2023 May 05; 24(1):310. PMID: 37147725.

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  • Published on 2/16/2023

    Hooli S, King C, McCollum ED, Colbourn T, Lufesi N, Mwansambo C, Gregory CJ, Thamthitiwat S, Cutland C, Madhi SA, Nunes MC, Gessner BD, Hazir T, Mathew JL, Addo-Yobo E, Chisaka N, Hassan M, Hibberd PL, Jeena P, Lozano JM, MacLeod WB, Patel A, Thea DM, Nguyen NTV, Zaman SM, Ruvinsky RO, Lucero M, Kartasasmita CB, Turner C, Asghar R, Banajeh S, Iqbal I, Maulen-Radovan I, Mino-Leon G, Saha SK, Santosham M, Singhi S, Awasthi S, Bavdekar A, Chou M, Nymadawa P, Pape JW, Paranhos-Baccala G, Picot VS, Rakoto-Andrianarivelo M, Rouzier V, Russomando G, Sylla M, Vanhems P, Wang J, Basnet S, Strand TA, Neuman MI, Arroyo LM, Echavarria M, Bhatnagar S, Wadhwa N, Lodha R, Aneja S, Gentile A, Chadha M, Hirve S, O'Grady KF, Clara AW, Rees CA, Campbell H, Nair H, Falconer J, Williams LJ, Horne M, Qazi SA, Nisar YB. In-hospital mortality risk stratification in children aged under 5 years with pneumonia with or without pulse oximetry: A secondary analysis of the Pneumonia REsearch Partnership to Assess WHO REcommendations (PREPARE) dataset. Int J Infect Dis. 2023 Apr; 129:240-250. PMID: 36805325.

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