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C. Johannes van Dam is a senior program associate with the Population Council's Reproductive Health program. He coordinates operations research on HIV and AIDS and sexually transmitted infections and serves as liaison to a number of international organizations. Prior to joining the Population Council, van Dam worked for UNAIDS providing technical assistance to national AIDS programs to help develop, implement, and evaluate program activities. Van Dam also served as a medical officer with the World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS and as a public health expert for the Commission of European Communities' AIDS Task Force.
Van Dam has given presentations at conferences and workshops around the world. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Amsterdam, a diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene from the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam, and an M.S. in community health in developing countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London.
A partial list of publications includes:
Williams, Brian G., Dirk Taljaard, Catherine M. Campbell, Eleanor Gouws, Lewis Ndhlovu, Johannes van Dam, Michel Caraël, and Bertran Auvert. 2003. "Changing patterns of knowledge, reported behaviour and sexually transmitted infections in a South African gold mining community," AIDS 17(14): 2099 2107.
Auvert, Bertran, Ron Ballard, Catherine Campbell, Michel Caraël, Matthieu Carton, Glenda Fehler, Eleanor Gouws, Catherine MacPhail, Dirk Taljaard, Johannes van Dam, and Brian Williams. 2001. "HIV infection among youth in a South African mining town is associated with herpes simplex virus-2 seropositivity and sexual behaviour," AIDS 15(7): 885 898.
Gilgen, D., Brian G. Williams, Catherine MacPhail, Johannes van Dam, Catherine Campbell, Ron C. Ballard, and Dirk Taljaard. 2001. "The natural history of HIV/AIDS in a major goldmining centre in South Africa: Results of a biomedical and social survey," South African Journal of Science 97(9/10): 387 392.
A partial list of presentations includes:
van Dam, Johannes. 2005. "Periodic presumptive treatment as a strategy to control sexually transmitted infections: Experience from three African countries," presentation at the 16th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10 13 July.
. 2001. "STI/HIV control interventions with sex workers," dissemination workshop following the Joint Family Health International/Population Council Sex Worker Intervention Study, Antananarivo, Madagascar, May. | 