Bruce Larson

Bruce Larson is a Core Faculty Member of the Global China Initiative at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center andis a Research Professor, Global Health with the Boston University School of Public Health. He is also an Applied Economist with the Boston University Department of Global Health and the Center for Global Health and Development (CGHD). He has conducted research activities in about 25 countries over the past 28 years, mainly in Africa, the former Soviet Union and the US. Before joining Boston University, Larson was an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Connecticut, a Research Associate with the Harvard Institute for International Development, a Research Fellow with Winrock International and an Agricultural Economist with the US Department of Agriculture.

Since joining Boston University, his research has focused on economic evaluations of public health programs and interventions in clinical and community settings with experimental and quasi-experimental designs. His evaluation research has addressed a range of topics, such as the impacts of HIV treatment on labor productivity, costs and usefulness of point-of-care technologies (CD4 tests, rapid syphilis tests, rapid malaria tests), costs of HIV care and treatment and improving delivery of prevention of mother-to-child transmission).