Roles
Assistant Professor
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Biography
Biography
Dr. Lin Zhu is a public health decision scientist who develops mathematical and computational models to evaluate the population-level health and economic impacts of prevention and treatment programs. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Prior to joining UM, she served as a Senior Research Engineer in the Department of Health Policy at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Her recent work has focused on social network analysis, evidence synthesis, simulation modeling, and cost-effectiveness analysis. She is the principal investigator (PI) of a K99/R00 award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), supporting her research on hepatitis C elimination among people who inject drugs. She also serves as a co-investigator on the NIDA-funded HEAL Data2Action Modeling and Economic Resource Center, as well as on an Epidemiologic and Economic Modeling Agreement funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Beyond her primary research on hepatitis C, she has been actively engaged throughout her academic career in a broad portfolio of infectious disease research, including HIV, sexually transmitted infections, malaria, COVID-19, and vaccination strategies. With a clinical background and a deep-rooted passion for medicine, she is also interested in expanding her work to address a wider range of diseases and health conditions, with the goal of translating novel clinical approaches into evidence-based strategies that advance population health. -
Publications
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