Theresa Exner is an Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University, where she teaches human sexuality to psychiatric residents and medical students. She also teaches in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia. As a Co-investigator with the HIV Center's Interdisciplinary Research Methods (IRM) Core, Theresa provides consultation to a variety of researchers and community organizations on project and intervention development, training staff on sexuality related issues, and assessment of sexual behavior.

Theresa has been involved in HIV prevention work since 1988. Pervious federally funded initiatives include HIV/STI prevention efforts with women accessing contraceptive care in medically under-served areas of NYC; evaluation of a school-based, peer- and teacher-delivered prevention program for youth in rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa; and development and piloting of an HIV prevention program targeting Nigerian men. Currently, in partnership with the NYSDOH AIDS Institute, she is launching a state-wide structural intervention to promote female condom use, and, as Co-PI with Dr. Joanne Mantell (PI), is developing and will pilot-test an intervention to promote reproductive health among HIV+ women and men entering primary HIV Care in Capetown, South Africa.

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