Biography

    Jonathon Lee Simon, M.P.H., D.Sc., is the Chair of the Department of International Health, Director of the Center for Global Health and Development, and  Professor of International Health at the BUSPH. He received his Bachelor of Science from the University of California at Berkeley in Conservation and Resource Studies. His MPH is also from UC Berkeley. Dr. Simon received his Doctorate of Science from the Harvard University School of Public Health, having completed dissertation research on the changing demography of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has been involved in applied child health research activities for more than 20 years, working in more than twenty developing countries. Before joining Boston University, Dr. Simon was a Fellow of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID).   Dr. Simon has extensive experience working in Africa and South Asia, particularly on issues related to child survival, infectious diseases, and capacity strengthening. He has served in resident positions in Tanzania and Pakistan. He currrently is involved in research evaluating the economic impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on sectors of the African economy and conducting evaluation research studies of interventions aimed at improving the well-being of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC).

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Publications
    1. Larson BA, Fox MP, Bii M, Rosen S, Rohr J, Shaffer D, Sawe F, Wasunna M, Simon JL. Antiretroviral therapy, labor productivity, and sex: a longitudinal cohort study of tea pluckers in Kenya. AIDS. 2013 Jan 2; 27(1):115-23.
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    2. Gill CJ, Phiri-Mazala G, Guerina NG, Kasimba J, Mulenga C, Macleod WB, Waitolo N, Knapp AB, Mirochnick M, Mazimba A, Fox MP, Sabin L, Seidenberg P, Simon JL, Hamer DH. Effect of training traditional birth attendants on neonatal mortality (Lufwanyama Neonatal Survival Project): randomised controlled study. BMJ. 2011; 342:d346.
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    3. Beard J, Biemba G, Brooks MI, Costello J, Ommerborn M, Bresnahan M, Flynn D, Simon JL. Children of female sex workers and drug users: a review of vulnerability, resilience and family-centred models of care. J Int AIDS Soc. 2010; 13 Suppl 2:S6.
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    4. Fox MP, McCoy K, Larson BA, Rosen S, Bii M, Sigei C, Shaffer D, Sawe F, Wasunna M, Simon JL. Improvements in physical wellbeing over the first two years on antiretroviral therapy in western Kenya. AIDS Care. 2010 Feb; 22(2):137-45.
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    5. Larson BA, Fox MP, Rosen S, Bii M, Sigei C, Shaffer D, Sawe F, Wasunna M, Simon JL. Early effects of antiretroviral therapy on work performance: preliminary results from a cohort study of Kenyan agricultural workers. AIDS. 2008 Jan 30; 22(3):421-5.
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    6. Sipilanyambe N, Simon JL, Chanda P, Olumese P, Snow RW, Hamer DH. From chloroquine to artemether-lumefantrine: the process of drug policy change in Zambia. Malar J. 2008; 7:25.
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    7. Hazir T, Fox LM, Nisar YB, Fox MP, Ashraf YP, MacLeod WB, Ramzan A, Maqbool S, Masood T, Hussain W, Murtaza A, Khawar N, Tariq P, Asghar R, Simon JL, Thea DM, Qazi SA. Ambulatory short-course high-dose oral amoxicillin for treatment of severe pneumonia in children: a randomised equivalency trial. Lancet. 2008 Jan 5; 371(9606):49-56.
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    8. Parikh A, Desilva MB, Cakwe M, Quinlan T, Simon JL, Skalicky A, Zhuwau T. Exploring the Cinderella myth: intrahousehold differences in child wellbeing between orphans and non-orphans in Amajuba District, South Africa. AIDS. 2007 Nov; 21 Suppl 7:S95-S103.
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    9. Hamer DH, Ndhlovu M, Zurovac D, Fox M, Yeboah-Antwi K, Chanda P, Sipilinyambe N, Simon JL, Snow RW. Improved diagnostic testing and malaria treatment practices in Zambia. JAMA. 2007 May 23; 297(20):2227-31.
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    10. Zurovac D, Ndhlovu M, Sipilanyambe N, Chanda P, Hamer DH, Simon JL, Snow RW. Paediatric malaria case-management with artemether-lumefantrine in Zambia: a repeat cross-sectional study. Malar J. 2007; 6:31.
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    11. Abdullah AS, Simon JL. Health promotion in older adults: evidence-based smoking cessation programs for use in primary care settings. Geriatrics. 2006 Mar; 61(3):30-4.
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    12. Rosen S, Sanne I, Collier A, Simon JL. Rationing antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS in Africa: choices and consequences. PLoS Med. 2005 Nov; 2(11):e303.
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    13. Gill CJ, Hamer DH, Simon JL, Thea DM, Sabin LL. No room for complacency about adherence to antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS. 2005 Aug 12; 19(12):1243-9.
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    14. Duggan C, MacLeod WB, Krebs NF, Westcott JL, Fawzi WW, Premji ZG, Mwanakasale V, Simon JL, Yeboah-Antwi K, Hamer DH. Plasma zinc concentrations are depressed during the acute phase response in children with falciparum malaria. J Nutr. 2005 Apr; 135(4):802-7.
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    15. Rosen S, Sanne I, Collier A, Simon JL. Hard choices: rationing antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. Lancet. 2005 Jan 22-28; 365(9456):354-6.
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    16. Fox MP, Rosen S, MacLeod WB, Wasunna M, Bii M, Foglia G, Simon JL. The impact of HIV/AIDS on labour productivity in Kenya. Trop Med Int Health. 2004 Mar; 9(3):318-24.
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    17. Rosen S, Vincent JR, MacLeod W, Fox M, Thea DM, Simon JL. The cost of HIV/AIDS to businesses in southern Africa. AIDS. 2004 Jan 23; 18(2):317-24.
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    18. Rosen S, Simon JL. Shifting the burden: the private sector's response to the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Bull World Health Organ. 2003; 81(2):131-7.
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    19. Rosen S, Simon J, Vincent JR, MacLeod W, Fox M, Thea DM. AIDS is your business. Harv Bus Rev. 2003 Feb; 81(2):80-7, 125.
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    20. Simon JL, Larson BA, Zusman A, Rosen S. How will the reduction of tariffs and taxes on insecticide- treated bednets affect household purchases? Bull World Health Organ. 2002; 80(11):892-9.
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