Email cmwong@nus.edu.sg

Christina Wong is a socio-behavioral scientist with more than 25 years of experience in public health research and evaluation. She has worked with populations who are disenfranchised based on socio- economic status, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation. She has been successful in engaging stakeholders and research partners to work together to inform the design and implementation of socio-behavioral research as well as research and consultations to prepare for scaling up of evidence-based interventions.

Her research interests are in the acceptability of new HIV prevention technologies (oral pre-exposure prophylaxis, vaginal rings, long acting injectables); HIV care and treatment particularly in the reasons why people living with HIV drop out of care; maternal, infant and young child nutrition; contraceptive and reproductive technologies; awareness of cancer screening programs as well as gender-based violence. She also provides training to build capacity to conduct qualitative research and implementation science with non- governmental organizations, hospitals, universities and ministries of health in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

She has conducted studies and capacity building trainings in the Asia-Pacific (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam), Africa (Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda), Ukraine and the United States.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Adjunct)

• Qualitative research
• Implementation science
• HIV prevention, care and treatment
• Maternal, infant and young child nutrition
• Maternal and child health
• Reproductive health
• Cancer

• Qualitative research
• Implementation science
• Behavioral change

• PhD, Health Behavior, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007
• MPH, Yale University, 1996
• BA, International Relations, Mount Holyoke College, 1993

• Scientist, Behavioral, Epidemiological & Clinical Sciences, FHI 360 (2007-2024)
• Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (1997-1999)
• Lecturer, Institute of Health and Community Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (1996-1997)

• Wong CM, Munthali T, Mangunje FG, Katoka, ML, Burke HM, Musonda B, Musonda M, Todd CS (2024). Creating allies: qualitative exploration of young women’s preferences for PrEP methods and parents’ role in PrEP uptake and user support in urban and rural Zambia. BMC Women’s Health 24, 71 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-024-02913-7
• Callahan R, Cartwright AF, Lawton A, Wong C, Muchiri O, Matan S (2024). Assessing acceptability of biodegradable contraceptive implants in Kenya and Senegal. Global Health: Science and Practice 2024;12(4):e2300503. https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-23-00503
• Iellamo A, Wong CM, Bilukha O, Smith JP, Ververs M, Gribble K, Walczak B, Wesolowska A, Samman SA, O’Brien M, Brown AN, Stillman T, Thomas, B (2024). “I could not find the strength to resist the pressure of the medical staff, to refuse to give commercial milk formula”: a qualitative study on effects of the war on Ukrainian women’s infant feeding. Frontiers in Nutrition 11:1225940. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2024.1225940
• Callahan RL, Burke HM, Lawton A, OlaOlorun FM, Mubiru F, Anyasi H, Wong CM, Bidashimwa D, Velarde M, Ruderman LW (2023). Service delivery considerations for introducing new injectable contraceptives lasting 4 and 6 months in Nigeria and Uganda: A qualitative study. Global Health: Science and Practice December 2023, 11(6):e2300214. https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-23-00214
• Burke HM, Wamburi A, Rademacher KH, Wong CM,Were E, Hoppes E and Solomon M (2023). A field test of the NORMAL job aid with community health workers in Kenya to address contraceptive-induced menstrual changes. Global Health: Science and Practice February 2023, 11(1):e2200364. https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00364
• Girault P, Wong CM, Jittjang S, Fongkaew K, Cassell MM, Lertpiriyasuwat C, et al. (2021) Uptake of oral fluid-based HIV self-testing among men who have sex with men and transgender women in Thailand. PLoS ONE 16(8): e0256094. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256094
• Wong CS, Kumar PA, Wong CM, Choong CH, Lim O, Chan YY, Ibrahim MA, Chio MT, Tan RKJ, Chen MI. Acceptability of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and opinions on PrEP service delivery among men who have sex with men in Singapore: A qualitative study. AIDS Education and Prevention 2019; 31(2): 152-162. https://doi.org/10.1521/aeap.2019.31.2.152
• Tan RKJ, Wong CM, Chen, MIC, Chan YY, Ibrahim MA, Lim OZ, Chio MTW, Wong CS, Chan RKW, Chua LJ, Choong BCH (2018). Chemsex among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in Singapore and the challenges ahead: A qualitative study. International Journal of Drug Policy 61 (2018) 31–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.10.002
• Van Damme L, Corneli A, Ahmed K, Agot K, Lombaard J, Kapiga S, Malaheleha M, Owino F, Manongi R, Onyango J, Temu L, Monedi MC, Mak’Oketch P, Makanda M, Reblin I, Makatu SE, Saylor L, Kiernan H, Kirkendale S, Wong C, Grant R, Kashuba A, Nanda K, Mandala J, Fransen K, Deese J, Crucitti T, Mastro TD, Taylor D, on behalf of the FEM-PrEP study group. Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention among African women. New England Journal of Medicine, 2012;367:411-22. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1202614