Prof Sydney Rosen, MPA, is a Research Associate Professor at the Centre for International Health and Development at Boston University and the Co-Director of the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (a partnership between Right to Care and the Wits Health Consortium of the University of the Witwatersrand).
Sydney’s research focuses on the economic and social consequences of the HIV & AIDS epidemic, including the impact of HIV on households, private-sector companies, and public sector agencies in sub-Saharan Africa. Her field of research also includes the benefits and costs of prevention and treatment interventions, and sectoral and societal responses to the epidemic.
She is the principal investigator of USAID, CDC, NIH, and foundation-supported evaluations of the economic and social outcomes and cost-effectiveness of ARV in South Africa. She has participated and led studies on the costs of HIV & AIDS to organisations and economic sectors in South Africa, Zambia, and Kenya.
She is the author of policy and review papers on the business response to AIDS, the rationing of ARV therapy, and the retention of patients in AIDS treatment programmes.
Sydney’s Her research has been published in AIDS, The Lancet, Harvard Business Review, Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, PloS Medicine, and Tropical Medicine and International Health.
Sydney’s technical training is in policy analysis and applied economics. She holds a BA from Harvard University and an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Organising Committee Member, International AIDS Economics Network (IAEN), 2006-present.
Scientific Advisory Committee Member, South African Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), 2004-present.
Member, International Health Economics Association (IHEA), 2006-present.
Member, International AIDS Society (IAS), 2004-present.
Founder and Editor, Health and Development Discussion Paper Series, Centre for International Health and Development, Boston University, 2002-present.
Founder and Director, AIDS Response Fund, Inc, 2000-2007. (Nongovernmental organisation that raised funds for HIV/AIDS care in Africa; nearly $50 000 raised.)
Steering Committee Member, HIV/AIDS in the Workplace Research Symposium, University of the Witwatersrand, 2004.
Technical Advisor, Joint Economics, AIDS, and Poverty Programme (JEAPP), Pretoria, South Africa, 2004-2007.
Abstract reviewer for the International AIDS Society for international conferences in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008.
Invited reviewer for British Medical Journal, Social Science and Medicine, PLoS Medicine, JAIDS, AIDS.