Bio
Dr. Lin Zhu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She is a public health decision scientist with a uniquely interdisciplinary background that spans medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics, decision modeling, and economic evaluation. This integrative expertise enables her to translate complex data into actionable insights and to assess public health interventions from both clinical and population-level perspectives.
Her research focuses on optimizing resource allocation and improving health outcomes through evidence-based decision analysis. Dr. Zhu brings over eight years of experience in hepatitis C elimination among people who inject drugs (PWID). Her work includes examining the heterogeneous patterns of hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission via injection equipment-sharing networks; investigating the social determinants that influence the HCV care continuum among PWID; and evaluating the health and economic impact of various HCV elimination strategies—such as determining optimal testing intervals for PWID, implementing venue-based testing and treatment, developing jail-based HCV elimination approaches, and introducing point-of-care testing within syringe services programs.