Staff Profiles

1998        BSc        McMaster University (Biology)
2003        MSc        Autonomous University of Guerrero - Tropical Disease Research Centre (CIET) (Applied Epidemiology)

Ari Ho-Foster is Assistant Programme Director, Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of Medicine. Trained as an Epidemiologist, Ari has managed and co-investigated in more than a dozen large-scale, community-level epidemiological and field intervention studies in Canada, Pakistan and Southern Africa with the CIETgroup (1998-2010). He also served as Epidemiologist and Country Operations Officer for the Botswana-UPenn Partnership (BUP) (2010-19), prior to joining UB.

Clinical research, mixed methods research, community participatory research, epidemiological research design, epidemiological analysis (frequentist), Sensitivity analysis for missing data using multiple imputation, Statistical analysis using Stata

TB-HIV program evaluation, mental health, stigma, intimate partner violence, and access to care.

Epidemiology design

Epidemiological analysis

Mixed-methods research

Selected publications (for others, see: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9817-8090):

Psychometric Validation of a Scale to Assess Culturally-Salient Aspects of HIV Stigma Among Women Living with HIV in Botswana: Engaging “What Matters Most” to Resist Stigma. AIDS Behav. 2020. doi:10.1007/s10461-020-03012-y

“It’s When the Trees Blossom”: Explanatory Beliefs, Stigma, and Mental Illness in the Context of HIV in Botswana. Qual Health Res. 2019. DOI: 10.1177/1049732319827523

Risk factors for gastric aspirate culture contamination in children evaluated for tuberculosis in Botswana. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2018. DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.18.0036

HIV Prevalence Among Hospitalized Patients at the Main Psychiatric Referral Hospital in Botswana. AIDS Behav. 2018. DOI: 10.1007/s10461-017-1878-3

High rates of exposure to tuberculosis patients among HIV-infected health care workers in Botswana. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2018. DOI:10.5588/ijtld.17.0376