Taryn Vian

Taryn Vian teaches courses in health care management, financial management, and transparency in governance at Boston University. Prior to joining BU in 1999, she worked for two international consulting firms, Management Sciences for Health (MSH), and Abt Associates, Inc. Taryn lived in the Philippines, where she managed a multi-million dollar USAID-funded project to improve the quality of child survival and family planning services after decentralization. Aside from her Philippines work, Taryn has traveled to 25 other countries working to improve management and to enhance the quality of health care services. She has designed and evaluated health projects in Chad, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, and Poland. More recently, she evaluated Global Fund governance structures and assessed vulnerabilities to corruption in Azerbaijan and Albania, and worked with a team of BU investigators to evaluate Pfizer Corporation's Global Health Fellows Program, an international volunteering initiative active in 30 countries.

Books by Taryn Vian :

		Anticorruption in the Health Sector Strategies for Transparency and Accountability Edited by Taryn Vian, William D. Savedoff, Harald Mathisen 164 pages, 6" x 9", March 2010 Cloth, 978 1 56549 338 4, $69.95 Paper, 978 1 56549 337 7, $21.95