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Jan Ostermann

Adjunct Associate Professor

(919) 339-1110

jan.ostermann@gmail.com

Jan Ostermann

Summary

Jan Ostermann, Ph.D., is an Associate Research Professor in the Duke Global Health Institute. Dr. Ostermann is a health services and population health researcher who specializes in analytic techniques for longitudinal and complex survey designs. He has led the research design for the multi-year, five country orphan research, and residing in Tanzania for 5 years.

Topics

Locations

Projects

MOVE: Malawi Orphans & Vulnerable Children Evaluation

POFO: Positive Outcomes for Orphans

Ethiopia, Kenya, Cambodia, Tanzania, India

Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) to Determine HIV Testing Preference in Tanzania (R21)

Tanzania, United States

Discrete Choice Experiments to Determine HIV Testing Preference in Tanzania (Duke-CFAR)

Tanzania, United States

Cost Effectiveness of Repeat HIV testing

Tanzania

Enhancing VCT: Role of Home-based Couples Counseling in VCT Uptake and Disclosure in Rural Kilimanjaro

Tanzania

CHAT: Coping with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania

Tanzania

Recent Publications

Ostermann, J, Njau, B, Mtuy, T, Brown, DS, Mühlbacher, A, & Thielman, N. (2015, May 4). One size does not fit all: HIV testing preferences differ among high-risk groups in Northern Tanzania. AIDS Care, 27 (5), 595-603.

Okeke, NL, Ostermann, J, & Thielman, NM. (2014, December). Enhancing linkage and retention in HIV care: a review of interventions for highly resourced and resource-poor settings. Current HIV/AIDS reports, 11 (4), 376-392. (Review)

O'Donnell, K, Dorsey, S, Gong, W, Ostermann, J, Whetten, R, Cohen, JA, Itemba, D, Manongi, R, & Whetten, K. (2014, December). Treating maladaptive grief and posttraumatic stress symptoms in orphaned children in Tanzania: group-based trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy. Journal of traumatic stress, 27 (6), 664-671.

Ostermann, J, Whetten, K, Reddy, E, Pence, B, Weinhold, A, Itemba, D, Maro, V, Mosille, E, & Thielman, N. (2014, November 2). Treatment retention and care transitions during and after the scale-up of HIV care and treatment in Northern Tanzania. AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV, 26 (11), 1352-1358.

O'Donnell, K, Yao, J, Ostermann, J, Thielman, N, Reddy, E, Whetten, R, Maro, V, Itemba, D, Pence, B, Dow, D, & Whetten, K. (2014, March 4). Low rates of child testing for HIV persist in a high-risk area of East Africa. AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV, 26 (3), 326-331.

Thielman, NM, Ostermann, J, Whetten, K, Whetten, R, Itemba, D, Maro, V, Pence, B, & Reddy, E. (2014, March). Reduced adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected Tanzanians seeking cure from the Loliondo healer. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999), 65 (3), e104-e109.

Rajan, DG, Shirey, K, Ostermann, J, Whetten, R, O'Donnell, K, & Whetten, K. (2014, January 1). Child and caregiver concordance of potentially traumatic events experienced by orphaned and abandoned children. Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, 9 (3), 220-233.

Okeke, NL, Ostermann, J, & Thielman, NM. (2014, January 1). Enhancing Linkage and Retention in HIV Care: a Review of Interventions for Highly Resourced and Resource-Poor Settings. Current HIV/AIDS Reports, 11 (4), 376-392. (Review)

Ostermann, J, Whetten, K, Reddy, E, Pence, B, Weinhold, A, Itemba, D, Maro, V, Mosille, E, & Thielman, N. (2014, January). Treatment retention and care transitions during and after the scale-up of HIV care and treatment in Northern Tanzania. AIDS care, 26 (11), 1352-1358.

Escueta, M, Whetten, K, Ostermann, J, & O'Donnell, K. (2014, January). Adverse childhood experiences, psychosocial well-being and cognitive development among orphans and abandoned children in five low income countries. BMC international health and human rights, 14, 6-.

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