Dr Rayner Kay Jin TAN (he/him) is an Assistant Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health System, where received his PhD. He concurrently holds a position as visiting research fellow at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases in Singapore. He is a sociobehavioral researcher by training. His research interests revolve broadly about the social determinants of health, community engagement, implementation science, and health equity of vulnerable communities. To date, he has published more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, including The Lancet, The Lancet Global Health, The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, Clinical Infectious Diseases, npj Digital Medicine, and JAMA Network Open.
Rayner was a recipient of the Fulbright Visiting Research Scholarship for the academic year 2022/2023 and is receiving training in implementation sciences as a fellow of the HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Health Implementation Research Institute (HIGH-IRI) of the Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently deputy editor of a leading HIV scientific journal, the Journal of the International AIDS Society, an Academic Editor at PLOS Global Public Health, and a perspectives editor at the BMJ journal, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI). He also actively contributes to the organizing and scientific committees of international HIV and STI-related conferences, including being an organising committee member at the International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference 2023 in Brisbane, organising and scientific committee member for the Asia-Pacific AIDS and Co-Infections Conference (APACC) 2023 (Singapore) and 2024 (Hong Kong), and early career researcher committee co-chair at the International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI) World Congress 2024 in Sydney.
He leads several community-based organizations in the region as well. 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 Vice President 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.
