Biography

Dr Rayner Kay Jin TAN is an Assistant Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System. His research interests include stigma and health, community engagement, implementation science, and health equity.

Rayner was a recipient of the ASEAN Youth Fellowship 2024, Fulbright Visiting Research Scholarship 2022/2023, and the HIV, Infectious Disease and Global Health Implementation Research Institute (HIGH-IRI) fellowship 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 currently 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.