Researcher

Associate Professor Lei Zhang

My Expertise

AIDS, Antiretroviral therapy, China, Cost effectiveness, Epidemiology, Injecting drug users, Men who have sex with men (MSM), Meta analysis, Microbicides, Mother to child transmission, Needle-Syringe Program, South East Asia, STIs and Systematic review.

Fields of Research (FoR)

Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine, Culture, Gender, Sexuality

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Biography

Dr. Zhang is currently a Senior Lecturer at Kirby Institute, UNSW. He completed his Bachelor and Masters in Mathematics at the University of Sydney in 2002. He then pursued his PhD in Medicine in the University of New South Wales in Microbiology. In 2006, he accepted a postdoctoral position offer at Humboldt University, Berlin and researched on topics of bioinformatics. In 2007, he became a visiting scholar at Bar-Ilan University in Israel for...view more

Dr. Zhang is currently a Senior Lecturer at Kirby Institute, UNSW. He completed his Bachelor and Masters in Mathematics at the University of Sydney in 2002. He then pursued his PhD in Medicine in the University of New South Wales in Microbiology. In 2006, he accepted a postdoctoral position offer at Humboldt University, Berlin and researched on topics of bioinformatics. In 2007, he became a visiting scholar at Bar-Ilan University in Israel for 3 months. In 2008, he enrolled in a Master of Public Health and completed it in 2009. In the same year he accepted a full-time research position in the Kirby Institute, UNSW. He is currently conducting HIV epidemiological studies in China and Southeast Asia. In 2004-2012, he has co-authored 32 peer-reviewed articles, published in high impact journals including PNAS, CID, JAIDS, J. Virology, PloS ONE, and BMC Public health. He has consulting experience for the World Bank and UNAIDS, to conduct national or world regional studies for HIV epidemic. He has also co-authored 3 national reports for Vietnam, Indonesian and eight Eastern European/Central Asia countries.


My Qualifications

BSc (Adv Hons), MSc, PhD, MPH

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Location

The Kirby Institute,
The University of New South Wales,
Cnr West Str and Boundary Str
Darlinghurst 2010, NSW

Contact

+61 (2) 9385 0875
+61 (2) 9385 0920