Rayner Kay Jin Tan, PhD
Biography
Dr Rayner Kay Jin TAN is Assistant Professor and leads The Courage Lab at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore. He is also an Affiliate at the Centre for Behavioural and Implementation Science Interventions (BISI) and Research Associate at the Centre for Family and Population Research at NUS, and Visiting Research Fellow at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore. He is an implementation and socio-behavioural scientist whose work spans areas of stigma and health, community engagement, 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 a leading HIV scientific journal, the Journal of the International AIDS Society, and an Associate Editor at the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine.
He also actively contributes to international conferences, including being Program Chair of the Asia-Pacific AIDS and Co-Infections Conference (APACC) 2026, and has served on committees for the International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference, International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI) World Congress, APACC, and the International Congress of Behavioral Medicine.
He currently is board member of Project X, serving the health and social needs of sex workers in Singapore, and Head of Research at The Greenhouse Community Services Limited, a charity providing substance use recovery services for vulnerable and marginalized groups in Singapore. He also currently serves as the Treasurer for the Society of Behavioural Health, Singapore and is 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. He is a representative on the Ministry of Health Agency for Care Effectiveness (ACE) Consumer Panel.
