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Waimar Tun is a program associate with the Horizons program at the Population Council. She is responsible for providing technical assistance and directly managing the implementation of operations research activities on HIV/AIDS in Africa, South America, and Asia. Her research focuses on HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among at-risk populations, including men who have sex with men, sex workers, injection drug users, and mobile populations. To meet these aims, she utilizes both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, integrating behavioral research with epidemiology. From 2004 to 2005 she worked with Family Health International and undertook program monitoring and evaluation and HIV/STI biological and behavioral surveillance utilizing time-venue-based and respondent-driven recruitment methods. From 2002 to 2004 she served in the US Public Health Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as an epidemic intelligence service officer, where she was involved in health services research related to STIs and in investigations of outbreaks (West Nile virus and severe acute respiratory syndrome).
Tun received a Ph.D. and M.H.S. in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University. Her undergraduate studies were completed at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and the University of Oxford, UK. She is a member of the Delta Omega Society.
A partial list of publications includes:
Tun, W., M. Stiffman, D. Magid, E. Lyons, and K. Irwin. In press. Evaluation of clinician-reported adherence to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for the treatment of Chlamydia trachomatis in two U.S. health plans," Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
Tun, W., S. Gange, D. Vlahov, S. Strathdee, and D. Celentano. 2004. Increase in sexual risk by immunologic response to HAART among HIV-infected injection drug users, Clinical Infectious Diseases 38(8): 1167 1174.
Tun, W., D. Celentano, D. Vlahov, and D. Strathdee. 2003. Attitudes toward HIV treatments influence unsafe sexual and injection practices among injection drug users, AIDS 17(13): 1953 1962.
A partial list of presentations includes:
Tun, W. 2004. It’s only an illness: HIV treatment optimism and its effect on risk behavior, presentation at XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok, Thailand.
Tun, W., C. Walsh, J. Siller, B. Apt, W. Wolf, and J. Klausner. 2004. Acceptance of patient-delivered partner-therapy for syphilis among men who have sex with men (MSM), San Francisco, CA, presentation at National STD Prevention Conference, Philadelphia, PA. | 