Joep Bor

Biographic Data

ID	133660
NAME	Joep Bor
GIVEN NAMES	Joep
FAMILY NAME	Bor
SIGNATURE	BOR J
AFFILIATIONS	Boston University
ORCID	0000-0002-5112-8536
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	32
TOTAL CITATIONS	77
AUTHOR COUNT	32
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	4

Postpartum continuity of care for women with HIV
Open AccessLaura Rossouw, Amy Wise et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026
Introduction Postpartum disengagement from HIV care increases risks for adverse maternal health outcomes and transmission of HIV through breastfeeding. In January 2015, South Africa implemented Option B+, a policy extending lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) eligibility to all pregnant women living with HIV (PWLWH) regardless of CD4 count. We assessed the impact of Option B+ on postpartum retention in HIV care for PWLWH and identified predicto…
Record linkage without patient identifiers
Open AccessKhumbo Shumba, Joep Bor et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025
Linkage between health databases typically requires patient identifiers such as names and personal identification numbers. We developed and validated a record linkage strategy to combine administrative health databases without identifiers for South Africa’s public sector HIV program. We linked CD4 counts and HIV viral loads from South Africa’s TIER.Net with the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) database for patients receiving care between…
Excess US Deaths Before, During, and After the Covid-19 Pandemic
Open AccessJoep Bor, Jacob Bor et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2025
This cohort study examines trends in excess deaths in the US before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic
Assessing compliance with national guidelines in diabetes care
Open AccessAlana T Brennan, Emma M Kileel et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024
Diabetes is a major global health issue. We evaluated compliance to laboratory-based management guidelines for diabetes (type 1 and 2), essential for effective treatment and reducing diabetes-related morbidity and mortality. Our study utilized South Africa’s National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) data, focusing on patients from birth to age 80 years who underwent initial diabetes laboratory testing between January 1, 2012-January 1, 2016. Pat…
The fall—And rise—In hospital-based care for people with HIV in South Africa
Open AccessEvelyn Lauren, Khumbo Shumba et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024
ART scale-up has reduced HIV mortality in South Africa. However, less is known about trends in hospital-based HIV care, which is costly and may indicate HIV-related morbidity. We assessed trends in hospital-based HIV care using the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) National HIV Cohort. Our study included all adults ≥18 years receiving care in South Africa’s public sector HIV program from 2004 to 2017 with at least one CD4 count/viral load…
A Risk Prediction Model to Identify People Living with HIV Who are High-risk for Disengagement from Care after HIV Diagnosis in South Africa
Open AccessDieye Ibrahima, Ibrahima Dieye et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2024
Health systems performance for hypertension control using a cascade of care approach in South Africa, 2011–2017
Open AccessMariet Benade, Zandile June‐Rose Mchiza et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023
Hypertension is a major contributor to global morbidity and mortality. In South Africa, the government has employed a whole systems approach to address the growing burden of non-communicable diseases. We used a novel incident care cascade approach to measure changes in the South African health system’s ability to manage hypertension between 2011 and 2017. We used data from Waves 1–5 of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) to estimate trends …
“I was scared dating… who would take me with my status?”—Living with HIV in the era of UTT and U = U
Open AccessTembeka Sineke, Dorina Onoya et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023
South Africa rolled out Universal Test-and-Treat (UTT) in 2016, extending treatment eligibility to all persons living with HIV (PLHIV). We sought to understand how PLHIV in Johannesburg, South Africa, interpret and experience their HIV status, five years into the UTT era. In May 2021, we conducted in-depth interviews (IDI) (N = 27) with adult (≥18 years) PLHIV referred by HIV counsellors at three peri-urban primary healthcare clinics. We also con…
A database of US state policies to mitigate Covid-19 and its economic consequences
Open AccessAlexandra Skinner, Kelsey Flannery et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022
CUSP is the most comprehensive publicly available policy database of health, social, and economic policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. CUSP documents widespread variation in state policy decisions and implementation dates across the US and serves as a freely available and valuable resource to policymakers and researchers
Understanding the Reasons for Deferring ART Among Patients Diagnosed Under the Same-Day-ART Policy in Johannesburg, South Africa
Open AccessDorina Onoya, Tembeka Sineke et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2021
We aimed to examine the correlates of antiretroviral therapy (ART) deferral to inform ART demand creation and retention interventions for patients diagnosed with HIV during the Universal Test and Treat (UTT) policy in South Africa. We conducted a cohort study enrolling newly diagnosed HIV-positive adults (≥ 18 years), at four primary healthcare clinics in Johannesburg between October 2017 and August 2018. Patients were interviewed immediately aft…
Understanding Repeat Positive HIV Testing in South Africa Under Changing Treatment Guidelines
Open AccessMaria F Nardell, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2021
The South African National HIV Pregnancy Cohort
Open AccessKate Clouse, Babatyi Malope‐Kgokong et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020
N/A (not a clinical trial)
Treatment as insurance
Open AccessSarah Dickerson, Victoria Baranov et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2020References: 30
Many countries have expanded insurance programmes in an effort to achieve universal health coverage (UHC). We assess a complementary path toward financial risk protection: increased access to technologies that improve health and reduce the risk of large health expenditures. Malawi has provided free HIV treatment since 2004 with significant US Government support. We investigate the impact of treatment access on medical spending, capacity to pay an…
Changes in Health Care Access, Behaviors, and Self-reported Health Among Low-income US Adults Through the Fourth Year of the Affordable Care Act
Kevin N Griffith, Joep Bor et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2020References: 15
BACKGROUND: Health care access increased for low-income Americans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It is unknown whether these changes in access were associated with improved self-reported health. OBJECTIVE: Determine changes in health care access, health behaviors, and self-reported health among low-income Americans over the first 4 years of the ACA, stratified by state Medicaid expansion status. DESIGN: Interrupted time series and differenc…
Neighbourhood income and physical distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States
Open AccessJonathan Jay, Joep Bor et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2020Cited by: 25References: 20
Police killings and their spillover effects on the mental health of black Americans
Open AccessJoep Bor, Jacob Bor et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018
Why do people living with HIV not initiate treatment? A systematic review of qualitative evidence from low- and middle-income countries
Open AccessShahira Ahmed, Jessica Autrey et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2018
Population health in an era of rising income inequality
Open AccessJoep Bor, Jacob Bor et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017
Diverging Life Expectancies and Voting Patterns in the 2016 US Presidential Election
Joep Bor, Jacob BorARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2017Cited by: 27References: 7
Objectives. To assess whether voting patterns in the 2016 US presidential election were correlated with long-run trends in county life expectancy. Methods. I examined county-level voting data from the 2008 and 2016 presidential elections and assessed Donald Trump’s share of the 2016 vote, change in the Republican vote share between 2008 and 2016, and changes in absolute numbers of Democratic and Republican votes. County-level estimates of life ex…
The Songs of Khayal by Nicolas Magriel
Joep Bor, Jane HarveyARTICLEAsian Music2017
Reviewed by: The Songs of Khayal by Nicolas Magriel Joep Bor (bio) and Jane Harvey (bio) The Songs of Khayal. Nicolas Magriel with Lalita du Perron. New Delhi: Manohar, 2013. Two-volume set + DVD ROM. Book 1, xxvi + 432 pp., photographs, glossary of khayal vocabulary, glossary of musical terms, bibliography, index. Book 2, xxii + 647 pp., transcriptions, photographs, drawings. DVD-ROM, sound extracts, alternative song texts, data charts. ISBN 978…
Capitalizing on Natural Experiments to Improve Our Understanding of Population Health
Joep Bor, Jacob BorARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2016Cited by: 2References: 6
Capitalizing on Natural Experiments to Improve Our Understanding of Population Health Affiliation Jacob Bor ScDJacob Bor is with the Departments of Global Health and Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Jacob Bor, Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02118 (e-mail: [email protected]edu). Reprints can be ordered at http://…
Increases in Adult Life Expectancy in Rural South Africa
Open AccessJoep Bor, Jacob Bor et al.ARTICLEScience2013
Cost-Benefit of ART In the battle to control HIV, mass antiretroviral treatment (ART) costs $500 to $900 per person per year. Bor et al. (p. 961 ) calculated the impact of intensifying ART on the life expectancy of people living in rural KwaZulu Natal. The dates of death were collected from a population of about 100,000 people during 2000–2011: Four years before and 8 years after the scaling up of ART. Life expectancy of adults increased by more …
The political economy of Aids leadership in developing countries
Open AccessJoep Bor, Jacob BorARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2007Cited by: 18References: 14
Gloire des princes, louange des dieux. Patrimoine musical de l'Hindoustan du XIVe au XXe siècle
Mireille Helffer, Joep Bor et al.ARTICLECahiers de musiques traditionnelles2003
The Raga Guide
Peter Manuel, Joep Bor et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology2001

The Rise of Ethnomusicology
Joep BorARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1988Cited by: 5References: 1
The Voice of the Sarangi
Ashok Ranade, Joep BorARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1989
Sitar Technique in Nibaddh Forms
Allyn Miner, Joep Bor et al.ARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1989
The book focuses on Sitar technique and shows how that technique comes into play during the improvisatory music making endeavours of master Sitarists. A series of systematic descriptions and analyses reveals how instrumental technique as that of Sitar acts as a generative structure at the broad level and provides a corpus of factors of variation at the specific level. It includes musical transcriptions detailing physical gestures to produce melod…
The Voice of the Sarangi
Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, Joep BorARTICLEEthnomusicology1994
Imago Musicae V
Joep Bor, Jane Harvey et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology1994
Indian Music and the West
Joep Bor, Gerry FarrellARTICLEAsian Music1998
The Raga Guide
Steven Curti, Steven Curtis et al.ARTICLEAsian Music2000
It is always exciting to come across a work that is scholarly as well as artistically engaging, in which the familiar distinctions between academic and popular, and scientific and aesthetic, are blurred. or outright resisted. The Raga Guide, a text accompanied by thorough transcriptions, plates of ragamala paintings, and four CDs of musical performance, is such a work. The latest and most comprehensible addition to a family of publications that h…
The Raga Guide
Peter Manuel, Joep Bor et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology2001
Gloire des princes, louange des dieux. Patrimoine musical de l'Hindoustan du XIVe au XXe siècle
Mireille Helffer, Joep Bor et al.ARTICLECahiers de musiques traditionnelles2003
The political economy of Aids leadership in developing countries
Open AccessJoep Bor, Jacob BorARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2007Cited by: 18References: 14
Increases in Adult Life Expectancy in Rural South Africa
Open AccessJoep Bor, Jacob Bor et al.ARTICLEScience2013
Cost-Benefit of ART In the battle to control HIV, mass antiretroviral treatment (ART) costs $500 to $900 per person per year. Bor et al. (p. 961 ) calculated the impact of intensifying ART on the life expectancy of people living in rural KwaZulu Natal. The dates of death were collected from a population of about 100,000 people during 2000–2011: Four years before and 8 years after the scaling up of ART. Life expectancy of adults increased by more …
Capitalizing on Natural Experiments to Improve Our Understanding of Population Health
Joep Bor, Jacob BorARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2016Cited by: 2References: 6
Capitalizing on Natural Experiments to Improve Our Understanding of Population Health Affiliation Jacob Bor ScDJacob Bor is with the Departments of Global Health and Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Jacob Bor, Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02118 (e-mail: [email protected]edu). Reprints can be ordered at http://…
Population health in an era of rising income inequality
Open AccessJoep Bor, Jacob Bor et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017
Diverging Life Expectancies and Voting Patterns in the 2016 US Presidential Election
Joep Bor, Jacob BorARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2017Cited by: 27References: 7
Objectives. To assess whether voting patterns in the 2016 US presidential election were correlated with long-run trends in county life expectancy. Methods. I examined county-level voting data from the 2008 and 2016 presidential elections and assessed Donald Trump’s share of the 2016 vote, change in the Republican vote share between 2008 and 2016, and changes in absolute numbers of Democratic and Republican votes. County-level estimates of life ex…
The Songs of Khayal by Nicolas Magriel
Joep Bor, Jane HarveyARTICLEAsian Music2017
Reviewed by: The Songs of Khayal by Nicolas Magriel Joep Bor (bio) and Jane Harvey (bio) The Songs of Khayal. Nicolas Magriel with Lalita du Perron. New Delhi: Manohar, 2013. Two-volume set + DVD ROM. Book 1, xxvi + 432 pp., photographs, glossary of khayal vocabulary, glossary of musical terms, bibliography, index. Book 2, xxii + 647 pp., transcriptions, photographs, drawings. DVD-ROM, sound extracts, alternative song texts, data charts. ISBN 978…
Police killings and their spillover effects on the mental health of black Americans
Open AccessJoep Bor, Jacob Bor et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018
Why do people living with HIV not initiate treatment? A systematic review of qualitative evidence from low- and middle-income countries
Open AccessShahira Ahmed, Jessica Autrey et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2018
The South African National HIV Pregnancy Cohort
Open AccessKate Clouse, Babatyi Malope‐Kgokong et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020
N/A (not a clinical trial)
Treatment as insurance
Open AccessSarah Dickerson, Victoria Baranov et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2020References: 30
Many countries have expanded insurance programmes in an effort to achieve universal health coverage (UHC). We assess a complementary path toward financial risk protection: increased access to technologies that improve health and reduce the risk of large health expenditures. Malawi has provided free HIV treatment since 2004 with significant US Government support. We investigate the impact of treatment access on medical spending, capacity to pay an…
Changes in Health Care Access, Behaviors, and Self-reported Health Among Low-income US Adults Through the Fourth Year of the Affordable Care Act
Kevin N Griffith, Joep Bor et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2020References: 15
BACKGROUND: Health care access increased for low-income Americans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It is unknown whether these changes in access were associated with improved self-reported health. OBJECTIVE: Determine changes in health care access, health behaviors, and self-reported health among low-income Americans over the first 4 years of the ACA, stratified by state Medicaid expansion status. DESIGN: Interrupted time series and differenc…
Neighbourhood income and physical distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States
Open AccessJonathan Jay, Joep Bor et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2020Cited by: 25References: 20
Understanding the Reasons for Deferring ART Among Patients Diagnosed Under the Same-Day-ART Policy in Johannesburg, South Africa
Open AccessDorina Onoya, Tembeka Sineke et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2021
We aimed to examine the correlates of antiretroviral therapy (ART) deferral to inform ART demand creation and retention interventions for patients diagnosed with HIV during the Universal Test and Treat (UTT) policy in South Africa. We conducted a cohort study enrolling newly diagnosed HIV-positive adults (≥ 18 years), at four primary healthcare clinics in Johannesburg between October 2017 and August 2018. Patients were interviewed immediately aft…
Understanding Repeat Positive HIV Testing in South Africa Under Changing Treatment Guidelines
Open AccessMaria F Nardell, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2021
A database of US state policies to mitigate Covid-19 and its economic consequences
Open AccessAlexandra Skinner, Kelsey Flannery et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022
CUSP is the most comprehensive publicly available policy database of health, social, and economic policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. CUSP documents widespread variation in state policy decisions and implementation dates across the US and serves as a freely available and valuable resource to policymakers and researchers
Health systems performance for hypertension control using a cascade of care approach in South Africa, 2011–2017
Open AccessMariet Benade, Zandile June‐Rose Mchiza et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023
Hypertension is a major contributor to global morbidity and mortality. In South Africa, the government has employed a whole systems approach to address the growing burden of non-communicable diseases. We used a novel incident care cascade approach to measure changes in the South African health system’s ability to manage hypertension between 2011 and 2017. We used data from Waves 1–5 of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) to estimate trends …