Matthew Fox

Overview

Matthew Fox, DSc, MPH, is a Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health at Boston University. Dr. Fox joined Boston University in 2001. His research interests include treatment outcomes in HIV-treatment programs, infectious disease epidemiology (with specific interests in HIV and pneumonia), and epidemiologic methods. Dr. Fox works on ways to improve retention in HIV-care programs in South Africa from the time of testing HIV-positive through long-term treatment. As part of this work, he is involved in analyses to assess the impact of changes in South Africa’s National Treatment Guidelines for HIV. Dr. Fox also does research on quantitative bias analysis and co-authored a book on these methods, Applying Quantitative Bias Analysis to Epidemiologic Data (http://www.springer.com/public+health/book/978-0-387-87960-4). He is also the host of a public health journal club podcast called Free Associations designed to help people stay current in the public health literature and think critically about the quality of research studies (www.pophealthex.org/FA). He currently teaches a third-level epidemiologic methods class, Advanced Epidemiology as well as two other doctoral level epidemiologic methods courses. Dr. Fox is a graduate of the Boston University School of Public Health with a master’s degree in epidemiology and biostatistics and a doctorate in epidemiology.

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Projects

• AMBIT 2.0: Alternative models of ART delivery—optimizing the benefits
• ATRACT: Analysis of national lab database to evaluate the HIV treatment rollout in South Africa
• ENHANCE: Evaluating South Africa’s National Adherence Guidelines
• EVIDENCE: Evaluations to inform decisions using economics and epidemiology
• SLATE: Simplified algorithm for treatment eligibility
• ENCORE: Monitoring and evaluating treatment in South Africa with National Health Laboratory Service Data