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Organizers
Marta Tienda | Princeton University
 Marta
Tienda is the Maurice P. During '22 Professor in Demographic Studies
and Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton
University, where she served as director of the Office of
Population Research. Previously she was Ralph Lewis Professor
of Sociology at the University of Chicago, where she served as
department chair. Tienda also held positions at UW-Madison and
a visiting position at Stanford University. Tienda is past-
president of the Population Association of America and a
fellow of the American Academy of Sciences and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. Graduating magna
cum laude with a B.A. in Spanish from Michigan State
University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from the
University of Texas at Austin, Tienda has been the recipient
of numerous fellowships and honors.
Steve Tollman | University of
Witwatersrand
 Steve
Tollman is Associate Professor in the School of Public Health,
University of the Witwatersrand where he heads the Health and
Population Division and also directs the Agincourt Health and
Population Research Unit, sited in South Africa’s rural
north-east (Bushbuckridge region), since its inception in
1992. The Agincourt Unit was recently awarded the status of a
Medical Research Council/University Unit in Rural Public
Health and Health Transitions Research. Between 1990 and 1996
Tollman directed the University’s Health Systems Development
Unit, also based in Bushbuckridge. He played a leading role in
the formation of the International Network for the Demographic
Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH Network),
and currently serves as Chair of the INDEPTH Board and
convenor of its working group in adult health and
non-communicable disease. Tollman, a Rhodes Scholar, holds a
Master of Medicine from the University of the Witwatersrand,
an MA from Oxford University, UK, and a Master of Public
Health from the Harvard School of Public Health, USA. He has
published widely in the national and international literature.
Eleanor Preston-Whyte | University of Natal
 Professor
Eleanor Preston-Whyte - PhD (University of Natal 1969) -
formerly Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Development at
the University of Natal, is a respected researcher in the
field of Social Anthropology, with extensive experience in
coordinating individual research projects as well as faculty
and central academic research structures. Over the years, she
has served on numerous national and international research and
funding bodies, resulting in the development of a wide network
of colleagues and potential partners upon whom HIVAN can draw
for its work. Prof Preston-Whyte has been instrumental in
advancing the cause of multidisciplinary research, as well as
in the promotion of new methodologies and modes of research
enquiry and evaluation. She has worked extensively across the
Social and Behavioural Sciences and actively sought
collaboration with biomedical colleagues in the pursuit of
problems for which integrated medical and social solutions are
necessary, HIV/AIDS now being foremost among such challenges.
Prof Preston-Whyte has published widely in her own field of
Social Anthropology, with her specialist subjects spanning the
Dynamics of Family and Kinship Structures, Adolescent
Sexuality and Reproductive Health, and more recently, HIV/AIDS
and Population Studies.
Conference Coordinators Michael F. Maltese,
Princeton University
Dereshni Ramnarain, University of Witwatersrand
Elisabeth Kihlberg, Princeton University
Additional Assistance Provided by:
Amanda Rowe, Princeton University
Enid Schatz, University of Colorado at Boulder
Website Designed by:
Todd MacDonald, Princeton University
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