Post-doctoral fellow
Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Duygu Islek Yaras is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Epidemiology, Emory University. Her research focuses on pre-exposure prophylaxis preferences and use characteristics for HIV prevention in AMIS and TWIST studies. She is also working on estimating the MSM populations under AIDSvU project. She received her PhD in Epidemiology from Emory University where she examined racial and gender differences in cardiovascular disease outcomes.. Right after her PhD, She worked as a Prevention Effectiveness fellow at the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention at the CDC. She also has an MD from Ege University and an MPH from Dokuz Eylul University. Prior to her PhD, she worked as a research associate at the University of Liverpool where she worked on modelling the impact of health policy scenarios on future heart disease. She has a continuing collaboration with Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health as a Bernard Lown scholar at Cardiovascular Health, and she is a fellow of The International Society of Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention (ISCEP). She is a competitive masters swimmer and she is a singer in a amateur music band.