Rate My Professor Conor Shapiro

Shapiro's career with Health Equity International (formerly St. Boniface Haiti Foundation) began in 2002 as an undergraduate volunteer teaching English to children in rural Haiti. After graduation, he moved to Fond-des-Blancs in 2003, dedicating seven years to on-the-ground operations. He advanced to program manager in 2009, director general of St. Boniface Hospital post-MPH, and president and CEO in 2011. Under his leadership, St. Boniface Hospital evolved into southern Haiti's leading referral center, featuring innovations like a spinal cord injury rehabilitation program, comprehensive surgical services, the region's only 24/7 emergency room and neonatal intensive care unit, an AIDS Relief program, and a post-2010 earthquake spinal cord injury treatment center. He has orchestrated responses to Hurricane Matthew in 2016, COVID-19 in 2020, and the 2021 earthquake. Strategic alliances with USAID, CDC, GE Foundation, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation have solidified HEI's status as a premier NGO in Haiti. In 2024, Shapiro expanded operations to the United States with a shelter and stabilization program for unhoused migrant families in Massachusetts. He received Boston University School of Public Health's Young Alumni Achievement Award in 2013, presented 'The Risk of Empathy' at TEDx Middlebury in 2010, and collaborates with BU SPH's IH744 course on Program Design for Global Health.