Dr. Sabin is a health and development economist based at the Center for Global Health and Development and in the Department of International Health. She teaches courses in health economics, antiretroviral therapy management, and social and behavioral sciences in the MPH and DrPH programs. Her research focuses on behavioral interventions, applied economics, and program evaluations related to child health and welfare, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other infectious diseases in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Her current and recent projects include: an evaluation of a real-time feedback and counseling intervention designed to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy among injection drug users in southern China; exploratory studies on men who have sex with men in Ghana; a validation study of the Child Status Index in Malawi; an assessment of interventions to improve the quality of and access to health and other services among HIV-positive women in Vietnam; a cost-effectiveness study of a package of neonatal interventions designed to reduce neonatal mortality in rural Zambia; an evaluation of community-based HIV prevention programs among most-at-risk-populations in Vietnam; and studies assessing the attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors related to malaria prevention and treatment among pregnant women in East and Central India. Dr. Sabin teaches in executive and professional training programs based in the US (Harvard University, Duke University) and abroad. She was also a member of the core faculty of the Vietnam AIDS Policy and Planning Project, a training program on the response to the HIV epidemic for local and national government officials in Vietnam. She was Co-Program Director, and continues to consult for, the Health and Community programs organized by the International Honors Program, a Boston-based non-profit organization that offers study-abroad programs for US-based college students. Before joining the BUSPH, Lora worked in the Asia Public Policy Program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and at the Harvard Institute for International Development. While there, she served as the Academic Director of the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program, a Harvard-managed academic center in Ho Chi Minh City, from 1998-2000. Lora has lived in East Asia for ten years and has taught at universities and academic centers in China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Haiti. She holds a PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University.