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TAN Kay Jin Rayner

Dr Rayner Kay Jin TAN is a social and behavioural researcher in health. His research interests include stigma and health, community engagement, implementation science, and health equity.

Rayner was a recipient of the ASEAN Youth Fellowship, Fulbright Visiting Research Scholarship, and received training in implementation sciences at the HIV, Infectious Disease and Global Health Implementation Research Institute (HIGH-IRI) fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently deputy editor of the Journal of the International AIDS Society, and Associate Editor at the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine.

Beyond academia, he leads several community-based organizations. He currently is the president of Project X Society serving the health and social needs of sex workers, and a Director at The Greenhouse Community Services Limited, a charity providing substance use recovery services for marginalized groups in Singapore. He also currently serves as the Treasurer for the Society of Behavioural Health, Singapore and a co-lead at SG Mental Health Matters. He is a co-lead of Project Hayat, a community-led initiative to develop a national suicide prevention strategy in Singapore, and a representative on the Singapore Ministry of Health’s Agency for Care Effectiveness (ACE) Consumer Panel.

Affiliation

  • Assistant Professor, NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Primary)
  • Visiting Research Fellow, National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore
  • Affiliate, Centre for Behavioural and Implementation Science Interventions, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
  • Research Associate, Centre for Family and Population Research, NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Research Areas

  • Community engagement and participatory approaches
  • Implementation sciences
  • HIV and other sexually transmitted infections
  • Sexual and reproductive health
  • Social determinants of health
  • Social epidemiology
  • Sociology of health and illness
  • Substance use and dependence
  • Stigma and discrimination
  • Suicide
  • Trauma-informed care and approaches

Teaching Areas

  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Medical Sociology
  • Public Health Research Methods
  • Community-Based Participatory Methods

Academic/Professional Qualifications

  • PhD (Public Health), Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore
  • BSocSc (Sociology), School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University

Awards/Honours

  • Gilead Research Scholars Program in HIV (2023)
  • Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar Award 2022-2023, United States Department of State (2022)
  • HIV Infectious Disease and Global Health Implementation Research Institute (HIGH IRI) Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis (2022)
  • NUS Society (NUSS) Medal for Outstanding Achievement, Class of 2021, National University of Singapore (2021)
  • Prestige 40 Under 40 (2021)
  • Asia-Pacific AIDS & Co-Infections Conference (APACC) Fellowship, Virology Education (2020)
  • Singapore Population Health Improvement Centre (SPHERiC) Fellowship, National University Health System (2019)
  • Social Innovation in Health Initiative Fellowship, Social Innovation in Health Initiative (2022)

Career History

  • 2021-2023: Visiting Research Fellow, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore
  • 2021-2023: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina Project-China, Guangzhou, China
  • 2021-2021: Visiting Scholar, Columbia Population Research Centre, Columbia University in the City of New York
  • 2021-2021: Postdoctoral Fellow, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore

Administrative Leadership

  • 2024-Present: Treasurer, Society of Behavioural Health, Singapore
  • 2022-Present: Advisor, HeHealth.ai
  • 2021-Present: President, Project X Society
  • 2020-Present: Co-Lead, SG Mental Health Matters
  • 2020-Present: Chairman and Director, The Greenhouse Community Services Ltd
  • 2022-2024: Vice-President, Society of Behavioural Health, Singapore
  • 2019-2022: Treasurer, Society of Behavioural Health, Singapore
  • 2018-2019: Pro-Tem Treasurer, Society of Behavioural Health, Singapore

Professional/Consulting Activities

  • 2024-Present: Consultant, FHI 360
  • 2024-Present: Member, Agency for Care Effectiveness Consumer Panel
  • 2024-Present: Member, Global Black Gay Men Connect Sustainability Caucus
  • 2024-Present: Member, TREAT Asia (American Foundation for AIDS Research) Community Advisory Board
  • 2024-Present: Co-Chair, Singapore AIDS Conference 2024
  • 2023-Present: Deputy Editor, Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • 2023-Present: Academic Editor, PLOS Global Public Health
  • 2023-Present: Early Career Researcher Committee Co-Chair, 25th International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infections World Congress
  • 2023-Present: Young Impact Leader Advisory Committee Member, AVPN Asian Youth Mental Wellbeing Fund
  • 2022-Present: Organizing Committee Member, 12th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2023)
  • 2020-Present: Organizing and Scientific Committee Member, Asia-Pacific AIDS & Co-Infections Conference (APACC)
  • 2021-Present: Grant Panelist, Ministry of Health Office for Healthcare Transformation Movements for Health (M4H)
  • 2019-Present: Perspectives Editor, Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • 2020-2023: Associate Editor, BMC Public Health
  • 2020-2021: Member, Department Ethics Review Committee, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
  • Serves as expert witness in legal cases for opinions on stigma and discrimination towards men who have sex with men in Singapore, and on the effect of viral suppression on the risks of HIV transmission through sexual contact

Selected Publications

  • Mody, A., Sohn, A. H., Tan, R. K. J., Iwuji, C., Venter, F, Geng, E. (2023). HIV: epidemiology, prevention, treatment, and strategies for public health. The Lancet. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01381-8.
  • Zhao, R., Fairley, C. K., Cook, A. R., Phanuphak, N., He, S., Tieosapjaroen, W., Chow, E. P. F., Phillips, T. R., Tan, R. K. J., Wei, Y., Shen, M., Zhuang, G.,Ong, J. J., Zhang, L. (In press). Optimizing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and testing strategies in men who have sex with men in Australia, Thailand and China: a modelling study and cost-effectiveness analysis. The Lancet Global Health.
  • Byrne, M., Tan R. K. J. (Co-First Author), Wu, D., Marley, G., Hlatshwako, T. G., Tao, Y., Bissram, J., Nachman, S., Tang W., Ramaswamy R., Tucker J. D. (2023). Prosocial Interventions and Health Outcome: A Meta-Analysis. JAMA Network Open.
  • Wahab, M. T., Tan, R. K. J., Cook A. R., Prem, K. (2023). Impact of Including Boys in the National School-Based Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Programme in Singapore: A Modelling-based Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. Vaccine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.02.025
  • Tan R. K. J., Lourdesamy M. (2023). Social Determinants of Health and Global Public Health. In: Liamputtong, P. (eds) Handbook of Social Sciences and Global Public Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96778-9_3
  • O’Hara, C., Foon, X. L., Ng, J., Wong, C. S., Wang, F., Tan, C., Cheah, Y. T., Griva, K., Yoong, J., Tan, R. K. J. (2023). Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) healthcare in Singapore: perspectives of non-governmental organisations and clinical year medical students. Medical Education Online. https://doi.org/10.1080/10872981.2023.2172744.
  • Campbell, L., Tan, R. K. J. (Co-First Author), Francis, J., Uhlich, M., Mark, K., Miall, N., Eleuteri, S., Gabster, A., Shamu, S., Plášilová, L, Kemigisha, E., Adebayo, A., Kosana, P., Hurtado-Murillo, F., Cleeve, A., González, S. C., Albamonte, V. F., Blanco, L., Schröder, J., Olumide, A., Perotta, G., Saltis, H., Marks, M., Hendriks, J., Larsson, E., Ekström, A. M., Esho, T., Wu, D., Briken, P., Hlatshwako, T., Ryan, R., Daliana, N., Bravo, R. G., Velde, S. V., Michielsen, K., Tucker, J. D., I-SHARE Research Consortium. (2023). Intimate partner violence prior to and during COVID-19 measures: A global multi-country cross-sectional study from the I-SHARE consortium. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605221141865.
  • Tan, R. K. J., Tang, W., Tucker, J. D. (2022). Public health services and intersectional stigma – A social sciences perspective with implications for HIV service design and delivery. Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS. 18(1), 18-26. https://doi.org/10.1097/COH.0000000000000769.
  • Tan, R. K. J., Cook, A. R. (2022). Singapore’s HIV disclosure law in the context of progress towards the 90-90-90 goals: a call for greater action in the Western Pacific. The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, 29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100588.
  • Tan, R. K. J., Koh, W. L., Le, D., Banerjee, S., Chio, M. T., Chan, R. K. W., Wong, C. M., Tai, B. C., Wong, M. L., Cook, A. R., Chen, M. I., Wong, C. S. (2022). Effect of a popular web drama video series on HIV and other sexually transmitted infection testing among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Singapore: a community-based, pragmatic, randomized controlled trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(5), e31401. https://doi.org/10.2196/31401
  • Tan, R. K. J., Wu, D., Day, S., Zhao, Y., Larson, H., Sylvia, S., Tang, W, Tucker, J. D. (2022). Digital Approaches to Enhancing Community Engagement in Clinical Trials. npj Digital Medicine, 5(1), 37. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00581-1
  • Toller-Erasquin, J., Tan, R. K. J. (Co-First Author), Uhlich, M., Francis, J., Kumar, N., Campbell, L., Zhang, W., Hlatshwako, T., Kosana, P., Shah, S., Brenner, E. M., Remmerie, L., Mussa, A., Klapilova, K., Mark, K., Perotta, G., Gabster, A., Wouters, W., Burns, S., Hendriks, J., Eleuteri, S., Sahril, N., Low, W. Y., Plasilova, L., Lazdane, G., Olumide, A., Michielsen, K., Moreau, C., Tucker, J. D., I-SHARE Research Consortium. (2022). The International Sexual Health And Reproductive Health Survey (I-SHARE-1): A Cross-Sectional Multi-Country Analysis of Adults from 30 Countries Prior to and During the Initial COVID-19 Wave. Clinical Infectious Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciac102
  • Tan, R. K. J.*, Phua, K., Tan, A., Gan, D. C. G., Ho, L. P., Ong, E. J., See, M. T. (2021). Exploring the role of trauma in underpinning sexualised drug use (‘chemsex’) among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Singapore. International Journal of Drug Policy, 97, 103333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103333
  • Tan, R. K. J.*, Low, T. Q. Y., Le, D., Tan, A., Tyler, A., Tan, C., Kwok, C., Banerjee, S., Cook, A. R., Wong, M. L. (2021). Experienced Homophobia and Suicide Among Young Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Men in Singapore: Exploring the Mediating Role of Depression Severity, Self-Esteem, and Outness in the Pink Carpet Y Cohort Study. LGBT Health, 8(5), 349-358. https://doi.org/10.1089/lgbt.2020.0323
  • Tan, R. K. J.*†, Wang, Y.†, Prem, K., Teo, A. K. J., Kaur, N., Harrison-Quintana, J., Cook, A., Chen, M. I., Wong, C. S. (2021). PrEP or condoms, or both? Insights on risk compensation through a discrete choice experiment on PrEP preferences among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. Value in Health, 24(5), 714-723. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2020.11.023

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