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  • Medicaid Policy Lab

    The Medicaid Policy Lab evaluates the impact of policy changes and innovative care delivery models on health insurance coverage, access to care, quality of care, health outcomes, and equity of care in low-income, Medicaid-enrolled populations.

  • Impact of CMS Public Reports of Hospital Charge Data

    Since 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has been publicizing charges for services provided in approximately 3,400 U.S. hospitals. This research is exploring impacts of CMS public reports on the market for hospital inpatient services by examining shifts in charges and in hospital market shares over time.

  • Assessing Children’s Environmental Exposures (ACHIEVE)

    By collecting children’s baby teeth and information via questionnaire, the ACHIEVE study characterizes children’s exposure to environmental contaminants during the prenatal period and early childhood.

  • AMBIT: Alternative Models of ART Delivery—Optimizing the Benefits

    AMBIT is a 3.5-year research and evaluation project in sub-Saharan Africa supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The project includes data synthesis, data collection, data analysis, and modeling activities aimed at generating information for near- and long-term decision making and creating an approach and platform for ongoing evaluation.

  • EVIDENCE: Evaluations to Inform Decisions using Economics and Epidemiology

    EVIDENCE is a 5-year HIV/AIDS project funded by PEPFAR through USAID, which conducts health economics and epidemiology research in support of the goals of the South African National Strategic Plan for HIV, TB and STI’s 2017-2022 (NSP) and the PEPFAR Country Operational Plans 2018-2022. BU faculty and staff work closely with HE2RO on project evaluations, cost modeling, outcomes research, and financial management to improve guidelines, policies, programs, and resource allocation.

  • Optimization of the South African National Specimen Transport Network

    The South African National Health Laboratory (NHLS) is the largest diagnostic pathology service provider in South Africa and through a national network of laboratories, it is responsible for supporting the national and provincial health departments in the delivery of healthcare.

  • EQUIP: Analytics to Achieve Global HIV Targets

    EQUIP is a global cooperative agreement between USAID and a consortium of African organizations to provide support and technical assistance to USAID countries to foster achievement of 90-­90-90. BUSPH is a supporting partner in the EQUIP consortium, with a focus on economic evaluation and other data analysis.

Our Strategic Directions

Our Strategic Directions are interdisciplinary topics of critical importance to the public’s health and areas of strength and growth for Boston University School of Public Health. These Strategic Directions emerged from broad consultation both internal and external to the School. Our engagement with these research directions helps support a vision of the future that is unstinting in its emphasis on what matters most for health.

  • Cities and health
  • Climate, the planet, and health
  • Health inequities
  • Infectious diseases
  • Mental and behavioral health

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Recent Faculty Publications

  • Published On 6/1/2025Estimating air exchange rates in K-12 schools from a CO2 sensor network using machine learningIndoor Environmentsread at Custom
  • Published On 6/1/2025Initiation of Dolutegravir Versus Efavirenz on Viral Suppression and Retention at 6 months: A Regression Discontinuity Design.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)read at PubMed
  • Published On 6/1/2025Validation of clinical risk assessment scores for venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer: a population-based cohort study: Reply.Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTHread at PubMed
  • Published On 5/25/2025Impact of US Government funding cessation on TB care and prevention: a multicountry survey in Africa.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseaseread at PubMed
  • Published On 5/19/2025Bordetella 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.The Pediatric infectious disease journalread at PubMed
  • Published On 5/16/2025Sleep architecture and dementia risk in adults: An analysis of 5 cohorts from the Sleep and Dementia Consortium.Sleepread at PubMed
  • Published On 5/16/2025Use of the Brain Care Score to Estimate the Risk of Incident Cerebrovascular Events in Middle-Aged Women.Neurologyread at PubMed
  • Published On 5/15/2025Uplifting the Social Determinants of Health of Adults Exiting Carceral Settings May Aid Health Care Access.Journal of correctional health care : the official journal of the National Commission on Correctional Health Careread at PubMed
  • Published On 5/15/2025Site-Level Differences in the Provision of Telemental Health Care Within the Department of Veterans Affairs.Health services researchread at PubMed
  • Published On 5/14/2025Exposure to Legacy Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances from Diet and Drinking Water in California Adults, 2018-2020.Environmental science & technologyread at PubMed
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