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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

CHAT: Coping with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania

Tanzania

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

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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