Bio
Taryn Vian is Clinical Professor of Global Health and Associate Chair in the Department of Global Health at Boston University School of Public Health.
Dr. Vian is an expert in health systems strengthening and anti-corruption in the health sector. She has worked in more than 35 countries for the Council of Europe, UNDP, USAID, and other clients, and has conducted assessments of vulnerabilities to corruption in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, Ukraine, and Vietnam.
Dr. Vian has collaborated with the U4 Anti-corruption Resource Center in Norway for many years, and directs their Health and Corruption online course.
Before joining Boston University she worked as a health economist and management consultant for two international consulting firms.
She is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Cameroon and has a PhD in Public Policy and Global Health from Boston University, an MS in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a BA in Philosophy from Colgate University.
She is co-editor of Anticorruption in the Health Sector: Strategies for Transparency and Accountability (2010, Kumarian Press).
Follow her on Twitter @TarynVian
Related Publications
Political Party Accountability: Intra-party democracy, funding, and minimum standards for candidates
- political parties
- political financing
Cameroon: overview of corruption and anti-corruption
- country profile
Overview of Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Georgia
- political corruption
- patronage
- clientelism
ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND POLITICAL PARTIES
- access to information
- political parties
Corruption and anti-corruption practices in human resource management in the public sector
- public sector integrity
- human resources
- public servants
Taryn Vian
Affiliation
Boston University School of Public Health
Professional Title
Clinical Professor
Region
- Asia Pacific
- Europe and Central Asia
Country/Territory
- Algeria
- Armenia
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Colombia
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Georgia
- Haiti
- India
- Kenya
- Kosovo
- Lesotho
- Madagascar
- Moldova
- Morocco
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Philippines
- Poland
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United States
- Vietnam
- Zambia
Topics
- Accountability
- Health
- Civil Society
- Anti - corruption training
- Diagnostics
- Tools
- Corporate social responsibility
- Pharmaceuticals
- Public Financial Management
- Budget
Specialisms
Health sector corruption; Corruption risk assessment; Informal payments; Qualitative methods; Financial management; Performance-based budgeting reform
