William B. MacLeod, ScD
Research Associate Professor
Boston University School of Public Health
Global Health

ScD, Harvard School of Public Health
BA, University of California, Davis



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.


Sequential Interactions Between RSV and Streptococcus pneumoniae (SRPI)
02/23/2021 - 06/30/2024 (PI)
Merck, Sharp & Dohme LLC


Technology supported systems for rapid impact on TB control
11/01/2018 - 04/30/2024 (Co-Investigator)
WITS Health Consortium (PTY) LTD SouthAfricaMedResCou


Lusaka Postmortem COVID-19 Surveillance Study
10/22/2021 - 02/29/2024 (PI)
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation


Surveillance of HIV Drug Resistance in Adult Patients through Routine ARV programme Monitoring in South Africa” under Wits RHI Gophelega (Striving for good health) - A Program to Sustain HIV/TB....
10/01/2021 - 09/30/2022 (Subcontract PI)
WITS Health Consortium (PTY) LTD HHS CDC
1NU2GGH002381-01-00

Programmatic Implementation and Technical Assistance (TA) for HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis (TB) Prevention, Care and Treatment Services throughout the Health System in South Africa under PEPFAR
10/01/2020 - 09/29/2021 (Subcontract PI)
WITS Health Consortium (PTY) LTD HHS CDC


Evidence synthesis for Child Health diarrhea guideline update for the department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing
07/01/2020 - 03/22/2021 (PI)
World Health Organization


Monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of the Comprehensive Care, Management and Treatment (CCMT) programme for HIV/AIDS in South Africa using National Health Laboratory Service Data
06/01/2012 - 09/30/2018 (Subcontract PI)
Right to Care USAID


HIV Viral Load Data Triangulation
05/01/2016 - 07/31/2016 (PI)
Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc.


Secondary Analysis of South Africa Viral Load, CD4 count and other HIV Care Cascade Data
01/12/2015 - 07/31/2015 (PI)
World Bank


DMMH-GCC-POC Consultancy
02/01/2014 - 11/30/2014 (Subcontract PI)
WITS Health Consortium (PTY) LTD Grand Challenges Can




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  1. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39748443; PMCID: PMC11694356; DOI: 10.1186/s44263-024-00118-6;
     
  2. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39485019; PMCID: PMC11529147; DOI: 10.7189/jogh.14.04168;
     
  3. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39236028; PMCID: PMC11376578; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002127;
     
  4. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39345284; PMCID: PMC11427455; DOI: 10.12688/gatesopenres.14041.2;
     
  5. Lapidot R, Faits T, Ismail A, Allam M, Khumalo Z, MacLeod W, Kwenda G, Mupila Z, Nakazwe R, Segrè D, Johnson WE, Thea DM, Mwananyanda L, Gill CJ. Nasopharyngeal Dysbiosis Precedes the Development of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Young Infants, a Longitudinal Infant Cohort Study. Gates Open Res. 2022; 6:48.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39050991; PMCID: PMC11266592; DOI: 10.12688/gatesopenres.13561.2;
     
  6. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38472189; PMCID: PMC10933293; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-44940-w;
     
  7. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37852594; PMCID: PMC10760402; DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2023.102653;
     
  8. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37808661; PMCID: PMC10557644; DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.27.559805;
     
  9. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37475599; PMCID: PMC10359834; DOI: 10.7189/jogh.13.04060;
     
  10. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37093853; PMCID: PMC10348642; DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000003941;
     
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Bar chart showing 155 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2012 and 2013

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In addition to these self-described keywords below, a list of MeSH based concepts is available here.

HIV/AIDS
Population Health
Child Survival
Infectious Diseases
Sub-Saharan Africa
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