
Brown Bag Seminar: Could altruism end the HIV epidemic? Evidence from South Africa

Jacob Bor, ScD, is an associate professor in the departments of global health and epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. His research applies the analytical tools of economics and data science to the study of population health, and his research interests include HIV treatment and prevention in southern Africa, structural causes of health disparities in the U.S., and intersections of health, politics, and development. Prior to his graduate training at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Bor worked with an HIV-prevention NGO in Botswana, Lesotho, and South Africa. He is a faculty affiliate of Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center and senior research at the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office in South Africa.
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Jacob Bor
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