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Jacob Bor, SD

Assistant Professor

Boston University School of Public Health

Dept of Global Health

SD, Harvard School of Public Health

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ORCID : 0000-0002-5112-8536

Jacob Bor, ScD, SM, is Assistant Professor and Peter T. Paul Career Development Professor in the Departments of Global Health (primary) and Epidemiology. His research applies the analytical tools of economics to the study of population health, with a focus on HIV treatment and prevention in southern Africa. Current research interests include economic spillover effects of HIV treatment on patients, households, and communities; decision-making in HIV-endemic risk environments; population health impacts of social policy; and causal inference in public health research. His work has been published in Science, Lancet, PLOS Medicine, and other journals. Prior to his graduate training at Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Bor worked with an HIV-prevention NGO in Botswana, Lesotho, and South Africa. He is a faculty affiliate of BU's Global Development Policy Center, a Junior Faculty Fellow at BU's Hariri Institute for Computational Science, an affiliate of the Africa Health Research Institute (www.africacentre.ac.za), and Senior Research at the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (www.heroza.org) in South Africa. For additional and up-to-date information: http://sites.bu.edu/jbor.

Assistant Professor
Boston University School of Public Health
Epidemiology

Center Faculty Member
Boston University School of Public Health
Center for Global Health & Development

BU Sponsored Research
NIH RePORTER Sponsored Research

Economic, Health & Behavoral Dimensions of HIV Treatment Scale-UP
03/20/2015 - 01/31/2020 (PI)
NIH/National Institute of Mental Health
5K01MH105320-04

Yr	Title	Project-Sub Proj	Pubs
2018	Economic, health, and behavioral dimensions of HIV treatment scale-up	5K01MH105320-04	20
2017	Economic, health, and behavioral dimensions of HIV treatment scale-up	5K01MH105320-03	20
2016	Economic, health, and behavioral dimensions of HIV treatment scale-up	5K01MH105320-02	20
2015	Economic, health, and behavioral dimensions of HIV treatment scale-up	1K01MH105320-01A1	20

Publications listed below are automatically derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and other sources, which might result in incorrect or missing publications. Faculty can login to make corrections and additions.

Bor J, Venkataramani AS, Williams DR, Tsai AC. Validity of details in databases logging police killings - Authors' reply. Lancet. 2019 04 06; 393(10179):1413. PMID: 30967210.
Brennan AT, Bor J, Davies MA, Wandeler G, Prozesky H, Fatti G, Wood R, Stinson K, Tanser F, Bärnighausen T, Boulle A, Sikazwe I, Zanolini A, Fox MP. Medication Side Effects and Retention in HIV Treatment: A Regression Discontinuity Study of Tenofovir Implementation in South Africa and Zambia. Am J Epidemiol. 2018 Sep 01; 187(9):1990-2001.View Related Profiles.
Brennan, Alana
Bor, Jacob
Fox, Matthew
PMID: 29767681.
Fox MP, Bor J, Brennan AT, MacLeod WB, Maskew M, Stevens WS, Carmona S. Correction: Estimating retention in HIV care accounting for patient transfers: A national laboratory cohort study in South Africa. PLoS Med. 2018 08; 15(8):e1002643.View Related Profiles.
Brennan, Alana
Bor, Jacob
Fox, Matthew
MacLeod, William
PMID: 30096137.
Hontelez JAC, Bor J, Bärnighausen T. Early HIV Treatment: The Authors Reply. Health Aff (Millwood). 2018 08; 37(8):1342. PMID: 30080447.
Oldenburg CE, Seage GR, Tanser F, De Gruttola V, Mayer KH, Mimiaga MJ, Bor J, Bärnighausen T. Antiretroviral Therapy and Mortality in Rural South Africa: A Comparison of Causal Modeling Approaches. Am J Epidemiol. 2018 Aug 01; 187(8):1772-1779.View Related Profiles.
Seage, George
Bor, Jacob
PMID: 29584868.
Kluberg SA, Fox MP, LaValley M, Pillay D, Bärnighausen T, Bor J. Do HIV treatment eligibility expansions crowd out the sickest? Evidence from rural South Africa. Trop Med Int Health. 2018 09; 23(9):968-979.View Related Profiles.
Bor, Jacob
Fox, Matthew
LaValley, Michael
PMID: 29947442.
Bor J, Venkataramani AS, Williams DR, Tsai AC. Police killings and their spillover effects on the mental health of black Americans: a population-based, quasi-experimental study. Lancet. 2018 07 28; 392(10144):302-310. PMID: 29937193.
Fox MP, Bor J, Brennan AT, MacLeod WB, Maskew M, Stevens WS, Carmona S. Estimating retention in HIV care accounting for patient transfers: A national laboratory cohort study in South Africa. PLoS Med. 2018 06; 15(6):e1002589.View Related Profiles.
Brennan, Alana
Bor, Jacob
Fox, Matthew
MacLeod, William
PMID: 29889844.
Hontelez JAC, Bor J, Tanser FC, Pillay D, Moshabela M, Bärnighausen T. HIV Treatment Substantially Decreases Hospitalization Rates: Evidence From Rural South Africa. Health Aff (Millwood). 2018 06; 37(6):997-1004. PMID: 29863928; DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2017.0820;.
Ahmed S, Autrey J, Katz IT, Fox MP, Rosen S, Onoya D, Bärnighausen T, Mayer KH, Bor J. Why do people living with HIV not initiate treatment? A systematic review of qualitative evidence from low- and middle-income countries. Soc Sci Med. 2018 09; 213:72-84.View Related Profiles.
Bor, Jacob
Fox, Matthew
Rosen, Sydney
PMID: 30059900.

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Walkey AJ, Drainoni ML, Cordella N, Bor J. Advancing Quality Improvement with Regression Discontinuity Designs. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2018 May; 15(5):523-529.View Related Profiles.
Walkey, Allan
Bor, Jacob
Drainoni, Mari-Lynn
Cordella, Nicholas
PMID: 29466673.
Oldenburg CE, Bor J, Harling G, Tanser F, Mutevedzi T, Shahmanesh M, Seage GR, De Gruttola V, Mimiaga MJ, Mayer KH, Pillay D, Bärnighausen T. Impact of early antiretroviral therapy eligibility on HIV acquisition: household-level evidence from rural South Africa. AIDS. 2018 03 13; 32(5):635-643.View Related Profiles.
Seage, George
Bor, Jacob
PMID: 29334546.
Carmona S, Bor J, Nattey C, Maughan-Brown B, Maskew M, Fox MP, Glencross DK, Ford N, MacLeod WB. Persistent High Burden of Advanced HIV Disease Among Patients Seeking Care in South Africa's National HIV Program: Data From a Nationwide Laboratory Cohort. Clin Infect Dis. 2018 Mar 04; 66(suppl_2):S111-S117.View Related Profiles.
Bor, Jacob
MacLeod, William
PMID: 29514238.
Bor J, Chiu C, Ahmed S, Katz I, Fox MP, Rosen S, Yapa M, Tanser F, Pillay D, Bärnighausen T. Failure to initiate HIV treatment in patients with high CD4 counts: evidence from demographic surveillance in rural South Africa. Trop Med Int Health. 2018 02; 23(2):206-220.View Related Profiles.
Bor, Jacob
Fox, Matthew
Rosen, Sydney
PMID: 29160949.
Griffith K, Evans L, Bor J. Disparities In Access: The Authors Reply. Health Aff (Millwood). 2017 12; 36(12):2211. PMID: 29200342.
Bor J, Fox MP, Rosen S, Venkataramani A, Tanser F, Pillay D, Bärnighausen T. Treatment eligibility and retention in clinical HIV care: A regression discontinuity study in South Africa. PLoS Med. 2017 Nov; 14(11):e1002463.View Related Profiles.
Bor, Jacob
Fox, Matthew
Rosen, Sydney
PMID: 29182641.
Reniers G, Blom S, Lieber J, Herbst AJ, Calvert C, Bor J, Barnighausen T, Zaba B, Li ZR, Clark SJ, Grant AD, Lessells R, Eaton JW, Hosegood V. Tuberculosis mortality and the male survival deficit in rural South Africa: An observational community cohort study. PLoS One. 2017; 12(10):e0185692. PMID: 29016619.
Bor J. Diverging Life Expectancies and Voting Patterns in the 2016 US Presidential Election. Am J Public Health. 2017 Oct; 107(10):1560-1562. PMID: 28817322.
Griffith K, Evans L, Bor J. The Affordable Care Act Reduced Socioeconomic Disparities In Health Care Access. Health Aff (Millwood). 2017 Jul 26. PMID: 28747321.
Bor J, Ahmed S, Fox MP, Rosen S, Meyer-Rath G, Katz IT, Tanser F, Pillay D, Bärnighausen T. Effect of eliminating CD4-count thresholds on HIV treatment initiation in South Africa: An empirical modeling study. PLoS One. 2017; 12(6):e0178249.View Related Profiles.
Meyer-Rath, Gesine
Bor, Jacob
Fox, Matthew
Rosen, Sydney
PMID: 28617805.
Bor J, Cohen GH, Galea S. Population health in an era of rising income inequality: USA, 1980-2015. Lancet. 2017 04 08; 389(10077):1475-1490.View Related Profiles.
Bor, Jacob
Galea, Sandro
PMID: 28402829; DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30571-8;.
Bärnighausen T, Tugwell P, Røttingen JA, Shemilt I, Rockers P, Geldsetzer P, Lavis J, Grimshaw J, Daniels K, Brown A, Bor J, Tanner J, Rashidian A, Barreto M, Vollmer S, Atun R. Quasi-experimental study designs series-paper 4: uses and value. J Clin Epidemiol. 2017 Sep; 89:21-29.View Related Profiles.
Bor, Jacob
Rockers, Peter
PMID: 28365303; DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.03.012;.
Bärnighausen T, Oldenburg C, Tugwell P, Bommer C, Ebert C, Barreto M, Djimeu E, Haber N, Waddington H, Rockers P, Sianesi B, Bor J, Fink G, Valentine J, Tanner J, Stanley T, Sierra E, Tchetgen ET, Atun R, Vollmer S. Quasi-experimental study designs series-paper 7: assessing the assumptions. J Clin Epidemiol. 2017 Sep; 89:53-66.View Related Profiles.
Bor, Jacob
Rockers, Peter
PMID: 28365306; DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.02.017;.
Haber N, Tanser F, Bor J, Naidu K, Mutevedzi T, Herbst K, Porter K, Pillay D, Bärnighausen T. From HIV infection to therapeutic response: a population-based longitudinal HIV cascade-of-care study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Lancet HIV. 2017 May; 4(5):e223-e230. PMID: 28153470; DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3018(16)30224-7;.
Maskew M, Bor J, Hendrickson C, MacLeod W, Bärnighausen T, Pillay D, Sanne I, Carmona S, Stevens W, Fox MP. Imputing HIV treatment start dates from routine laboratory data in South Africa: a validation study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2017 Jan 17; 17(1):41.View Related Profiles.
Sanne, Ian
Bor, Jacob
Fox, Matthew
MacLeod, William
PMID: 28095905; DOI: 10.1186/s12913-016-1940-2;.
Brennan AT, Davies MA, Bor J, Wandeler G, Stinson K, Wood R, Prozesky H, Tanser F, Fatti G, Boulle A, Sikazwe I, Wools-Kaloustian K, Yiannoutsos C, Leroy V, de Rekeneire N, Fox MP. Has the phasing out of stavudine in accordance with changes in WHO guidelines led to a decrease in single-drug substitutions in first-line antiretroviral therapy for HIV in sub-Saharan Africa? AIDS. 2017 Jan 02; 31(1):147-157.View Related Profiles.
Bor, Jacob
Fox, Matthew
PMID: 27930403.
Brennan AT, Davies MA, Bor J, Wandeler G, Stinson K, Wood R, Prozesky H, Tanser F, Fatti G, Boulle A, Sikazwe I, Wool-Kaloustian K, Yuannoutsos C, Leroy V, de Rekeneire N, Fox MP. Has the phasing out of stavudine in accordance with changes in WHO guidelines led to a decrease in single-drug substitutions in first-line antiretroviral therapy for HIV in sub-Saharan Africa? AIDS. 2017 Jan 02; 31(1):147-157.View Related Profiles.
Brennan, Alana
Bor, Jacob
PMID: 27776039.
Brennan AT, Bor J, Davies MA, Conradie F, Maskew M, Long L, Sanne I, Fox MP. Tenofovir stock shortages have limited impact on clinic- and patient-level HIV treatment outcomes in public sector clinics in South Africa. Trop Med Int Health. 2017 Feb; 22(2):241-251.View Related Profiles.
Brennan, Alana
Sanne, Ian
Bor, Jacob
Long, Lawrence
Fox, Matthew
PMID: 27862762; DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12811;.
Reniers G, Blom S, Calvert C, Martin-Onraet A, Herbst AJ, Eaton JW, Bor J, Slaymaker E, Li ZR, Clark SJ, Bärnighausen T, Zaba B, Hosegood V. Trends in the burden of HIV mortality after roll-out of antiretroviral therapy in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: an observational community cohort study. Lancet HIV. 2017 Mar; 4(3):e113-e121. PMID: 27956187; DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3018(16)30225-9;.
Bor J. Commentary: Can't WaSH Without Water: Instrumental Variables Evidence from a Randomized Trial. Epidemiology. 2016 09; 27(5):761-4. PMID: 27276026; DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000523;.
Bor J. Capitalizing on Natural Experiments to Improve Our Understanding of Population Health. Am J Public Health. 2016 08; 106(8):1388-9. PMID: 27400352; DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303294;.
Dickman SL, Woolhandler S, Bor J, McCormick D, Bor DH, Himmelstein DU. Health Spending For Low-, Middle-, And High-Income Americans, 1963-2012. Health Aff (Millwood). 2016 07 01; 35(7):1189-96. PMID: 27385233; DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1024;.
Maughan-Brown B, Lloyd N, Bor J, Venkataramani AS. Changes in self-reported HIV testing during South Africa's 2010/2011 national testing campaign: gains and shortfalls. J Int AIDS Soc. 2016; 19(1):20658. PMID: 27072532; PMCID: PMC4829657; DOI: 10.7448/IAS.19.1.20658;.
Venkataramani AS, Bor J, Jena AB. Regression discontinuity designs in healthcare research. BMJ. 2016; 352:i1216. PMID: 26977086; DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i1216;.
De Neve JW, Fink G, Subramanian SV, Moyo S, Bor J. Secondary education and HIV infection in Botswana. Lancet Glob Health. 2016 Jan; 4(1):e23. PMID: 26718804; DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00252-1;.
Dorji G, DeJong W, Bor J, Bachman DeSilva M, Sabin L, Feeley FR, Udon P, Wangchuk N, Wangdi U, Choden T, Gurung MS, Chogyel T, Wangchuk D, Kypri K. Increasing compliance with alcohol service laws in a developing country: intervention trial in the Kingdom of Bhutan. Addiction. 2016 Mar; 111(3):467-74.View Related Profiles.
Bor, Jacob
Sabin, Lora
Bachman DeSilva, Mary
DeJong, William
PMID: 26476020; DOI: 10.1111/add.13202;.
Walkey AJ, Bor J. Risk-based Heterogeneity of Treatment Effect in Trials and Implications for Surveillance of Clinical Effectiveness Using Regression Discontinuity Designs. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2015 Dec 1; 192(11):1399.View Related Profiles.
Walkey, Allan
Bor, Jacob
PMID: 26623693; PMCID: PMC4731705; DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201508-1533LE;.
Bor J, Rosen S, Chimbindi N, Haber N, Herbst K, Mutevedzi T, Tanser F, Pillay D, Bärnighausen T. Mass HIV Treatment and Sex Disparities in Life Expectancy: Demographic Surveillance in Rural South Africa. PLoS Med. 2015 Nov; 12(11):e1001905; discussion e1001905.View Related Profiles.
Bor, Jacob
Rosen, Sydney
PMID: 26599699; PMCID: PMC4658174; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001905;.
Bor J, Geldsetzer P, Venkataramani A, Bärnighausen T. Quasi-experiments to establish causal effects of HIV care and treatment and to improve the cascade of care. Curr Opin HIV AIDS. 2015 Nov; 10(6):495-501. PMID: 26371463; PMCID: PMC4768633; DOI: 10.1097/COH.0000000000000191;.
Chimbindi N, Bor J, Newell ML, Tanser F, Baltussen R, Hontelez J, de Vlas SJ, Lurie M, Pillay D, Bärnighausen T. Time and Money: The True Costs of Health Care Utilization for Patients Receiving "Free" HIV/Tuberculosis Care and Treatment in Rural KwaZulu-Natal. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2015 Oct 1; 70(2):e52-60. PMID: 26371611; PMCID: PMC4748708; DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000000728;.
Rosenberg M, Pettifor A, Nguyen N, Westreich D, Bor J, Bärnighausen T, Mee P, Twine R, Tollman S, Kahn K. Relationship between Receipt of a Social Protection Grant for a Child and Second Pregnancy Rates among South African Women: A Cohort Study. PLoS One. 2015; 10(9):e0137352. PMID: 26398678; PMCID: PMC4580643; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137352;.
De Neve JW, Fink G, Subramanian SV, Moyo S, Bor J. Length of secondary schooling and risk of HIV infection in Botswana: evidence from a natural experiment. Lancet Glob Health. 2015 Aug; 3(8):e470-7. PMID: 26134875; PMCID: PMC4676715; DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00087-X;.
Chimbindi N, Bor J, Newell ML, Tanser F, Baltusen R, Hontelez J, de Vlas S, Lurie M, Pillay D, Bärnighausen T. Time and money: the true costs of health care utilization for patients receiving 'free' HIV/TB care and treatment in rural KwaZulu-Natal. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2015 Jun 18. PMID: 26090755.
Bor J, Moscoe E, Bärnighausen T. Three approaches to causal inference in regression discontinuity designs. Epidemiology. 2015 Mar; 26(2):e28-30; discussion e30. PMID: 25643120; DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000256;.
Moscoe E, Bor J, Bärnighausen T. Regression discontinuity designs are underutilized in medicine, epidemiology, and public health: a review of current and best practice. J Clin Epidemiol. 2015 Feb; 68(2):122-33. PMID: 25579639; DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.06.021;.
Bor J, Moscoe E, Mutevedzi P, Newell ML, Bärnighausen T. Regression discontinuity designs in epidemiology: causal inference without randomized trials. Epidemiology. 2014 Sep; 25(5):729-37. PMID: 25061922; PMCID: PMC4162343; DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000138;.
Bor J*, Moscoe E, B¨arnighausen T. The “natural experiment” in regression discontinuity designs: randomization without controlled trials (Letter). British Medical Journal. 2014; 349:g5293. View Publication
Harhay MO, Bor J, Basu S, McKee M, Mindell JS, Shelton NJ, Stuckler D. Differential impact of the economic recession on alcohol use among white British adults, 2004-2010. Eur J Public Health. 2014 Jun; 24(3):410-5. PMID: 24058184; DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckt134;.
Bor J, Herbst AJ, Newell ML, Bärnighausen T. Increases in adult life expectancy in rural South Africa: valuing the scale-up of HIV treatment. Science. 2013 Feb 22; 339(6122):961-5. PMID: 23430655; DOI: 10.1126/science.1230413;.
Bor J, Basu S, Coutts A, McKee M, Stuckler D. Alcohol use during the great recession of 2008-2009. Alcohol Alcohol. 2013 May-Jun; 48(3):343-8. PMID: 23360873; DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agt002;.
Bor J, Tanser F, Newell ML, Bärnighausen T. In a study of a population cohort in South Africa, HIV patients on antiretrovirals had nearly full recovery of employment. Health Aff (Millwood). 2012 Jul; 31(7):1459-69. PMID: 22778335; PMCID: PMC3819460; DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2012.0407;.
Bor J, Bärnighausen T, Newell C, Tanser F, Newell ML. Social exposure to an antiretroviral treatment programme in rural KwaZulu-Natal. Trop Med Int Health. 2011 Aug; 16(8):988-94. PMID: 21615631; DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02795.x;.
Bärnighausen T, Bor J, Wandira-Kazibwe S, Canning D. Interviewer identity as exclusion restriction in epidemiology. Epidemiology. 2011 May; 22(3):446. PMID: 21464660; PMCID: PMC3083838; DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3182117615;.
Bärnighausen T, Bor J, Wandira-Kazibwe S, Canning D. Correcting HIV prevalence estimates for survey nonparticipation using Heckman-type selection models. Epidemiology. 2011 Jan; 22(1):27-35. PMID: 21150352; DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181ffa201;.
Bor J. The political economy of AIDS leadership in developing countries: an exploratory analysis. Soc Sci Med. 2007 Apr; 64(8):1585-99. PMID: 17276568.

This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 55 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 13 publications in 2017 and 2018

Bar chart showing 55 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 13 publications in 2017 and 2018

Year	Publications
2007	1
2011	3
2012	1
2013	3
2014	2
2015	10
2016	8
2017	13
2018	13
2019	1

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

Population health
Economics
Causal inference
HIV/AIDS

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