
William B. MacLeod, ScD
Research Associate Professor, Global Health - Boston University School of Public Health
Biography
Bi
Education
- Harvard School of Public Health, ScD Field of Study: Epidemiology
- University of California, Davis, BA Field of Study: Political Science
- Harvard School of Public Health, SM/ScM Field of Study: Population Sciences
Websites
Classes Taught
- SPHBS723
- SPHGH854
- SPHPH717
Publications
- Published on 1/20/2025
Wheelock A, Chasaya M, Namuziya N, Jumbe Marsden E, Kapasa M, Mumba C, Mulenga B, Nkole L, Pieciak R, Mudenda V, Chikoti C, Ngoma B, Chimoga C, Chirwa S, Pemba L, Nzara D, Lungu J, Forman L, MacLeod W, Moyo C, Wa Somwe S, Gill C. Using Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling and Determination of Cause of Death to Establish Etiologies of Community Respiratory Deaths Among Zambian Infants and Children. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2025 Jan 20; 14(1). PMID: 39786450.
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- Published on 1/2/2025
Nattey C, Onoya D, Shumba K, Gareta D, Macleod W, Fox MP, Puren A, Mlisana K, Bor J. Monitoring for advanced disease in the universal test and treat era: trends in CD4 count testing in South Africa. BMC Glob Public Health. 2025 Jan 02; 3(1):2. PMID: 39748443.
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- Published on 11/1/2024
Das S, Neupane R, Beard J, Solomon H, Das M, Errickson N, Simon JL, Nisar YB, MacLeod WB, Hamer DH. Aetiology of diarrhoea in children aged zero to nine years in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review. J Glob Health. 2024 Nov 01; 14:04168. PMID: 39485019.
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- Published on 9/5/2024
Lauren E, Shumba K, Fox MP, MacLeod W, Stevens W, Mlisana K, Bor J, Onoya D. The fall-And rise-In hospital-based care for people with HIV in South Africa: 2004-2017. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2024; 4(9):e0002127. PMID: 39236028.
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- Published on 8/30/2024
Odom AR, Gill CJ, Pieciak R, Ismail A, Thea D, MacLeod WB, Johnson WE, Lapidot R. Characterization of longitudinal nasopharyngeal microbiome patterns in maternally HIV-exposed Zambian infants. Gates Open Res. 2022; 6:143. PMID: 39345284.
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- Published on 3/20/2024
Lapidot R, Faits T, Ismail A, Allam M, Khumalo Z, MacLeod W, Kwenda G, Mupila Z, Nakazwe R, Segrè D, Johnson WE, Thea DM, Mwananyanda L, Gill CJ. Nasopharyngeal Dysbiosis Precedes the Development of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Young Infants, a Longitudinal Infant Cohort Study. Gates Open Res. 2022; 6:48. PMID: 39050991.
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- Published on 3/12/2024
Sheppard RJ, Watson OJ, Pieciak R, Lungu J, Kwenda G, Moyo C, Chanda SL, Barnsley G, Brazeau NF, Gerard-Ursin ICG, Olivera Mesa D, Whittaker C, Gregson S, Okell LC, Ghani AC, MacLeod WB, Del Fava E, Melegaro A, Hines JZ, Mulenga LB, Walker PGT, Mwananyanda L, Gill CJ. Author Correction: Using mortuary and burial data to place COVID-19 in Lusaka, Zambia within a global context. Nat Commun. 2024 Mar 12; 15(1):2213. PMID: 38472189.
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- Published on 10/17/2023
Barnett ED, Wheelock AB, MacLeod WB, McCarthy AE, Walker PF, Coyle CM, Greenaway CA, Castelli F, López-Vélez R, Gobbi FG, Trigo E, Grobusch MP, Gautret P, Hamer DH, Kuhn S, Stauffer WM. Infections with long latency in international refugees, immigrants, and migrants seen at GeoSentinel sites, 2016-2018. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2023; 56:102653. PMID: 37852594.
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- Published on 9/28/2023
Odom AR, McClintock J, Gill CJ, Pieciak R, Ismail A, MacLeod WB, Johnson WE, Lapidot R. Analysis of nasopharyngeal microbiome patterns in Zambian infants with fatal acute febrile illness. bioRxiv. 2023 Sep 28. PMID: 37808661.
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- Published on 7/21/2023
Neupane R, Bhathena M, Das G, Long E, Beard J, Solomon H, Simon JL, Nisar YB, MacLeod WB, Hamer DH. Antibiotic resistance trends for common bacterial aetiologies of childhood diarrhoea in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review. J Glob Health. 2023 Jul 21; 13:04060. PMID: 37475599.
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News & In the Media
- Published on June 28, 2021
Babies Contract Asymptomatic Whoopping Cough at Higher Rates Than Previously Believed
- Published on March 4, 2021
- Published on February 17, 2021
COVID-19 in Africa Is Severely Underestimated, Zambia Deaths Show
- Published on February 2, 2021
World Coronavirus Dispatch: Africa Deaths May Be Higher Than Official Count
- Published on January 7, 2021
- Published on December 8, 2016
- Published on December 1, 2016
Data System Will Accelerate South Africa’s Progress to HIV/AIDS Elimination
- Published on June 7, 2016
- Published on October 28, 2015
- Published on August 20, 2014