Dr. Yesim Tozan received her doctoral degree in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in environmental engineering and environmental technology. Before joining the faculty at BUSPH in 2007, Dr. Tozan completed her post-doctoral work at the Earth Institute at Columbia University and worked as a research associate for the Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP) at the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center (FIC). In 2008, Dr. Tozan was awarded a three-year Peter Paul Career Development Professorship by Boston University, which recognizes outstanding young faculty within their first two years of BU appointments.
Dr. Tozan's research focuses on two interrelated areas: (1) understanding the impact of public health interventions and policies on population health and its determinants, and (2) linking the impact of interventions to socio-economic consequences through economic evaluation methods. Her current research emphasis is on the epidemiology, burden and socio-economic costs of neurocognitive sequelae following severe falciparum malaria. She is currently leading a project with a team of researchers from the WHO's Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (WHO/TDR), which aims to develop a standardized packet of training and health-education materials for the introduction of artesunate suppositories into community-based treatment programs of malaria endemic countries for early treatment of severe childhood malaria. This project is funded by a BU Ignition Award .
Dr. Tozan led an evaluative case study funded by the WHO's Commission on Social Determinants of Health, investigating the policy and implementation process of the Millennium Villages Project, a rural multi-sectoral development project, in Kenya. She served as a Task Force Associate for UN Millennium Project 's Task Force on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis and Access to Essential Medicines and was the lead author of the Task Force report on Malaria "Coming to Grips with Malaria in the New Millennium."
Dr. Tozan holds positions as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and a guest researcher at the Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies at the FIC/NIH.
At BUSPH, Dr. Tozan teaches IH890 Quantitative Methods and Modeling for Public Health Decision Making and IH 880 Confronting Non-communicable Diseases in the Developing World: Risk factors, Costs and Consequences
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