Professor Colleen Lau
Professorial Research Fellow
UQ Centre for Clinical Research
Affiliate of Queensland Digital Health Centre
Queensland Digital Health Centre
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Researcher biography
Professor Colleen Lau is an NHMRC Fellow and Professorial Research Fellow at the UQ School of Public Health. Her areas of expertise include emerging infectious diseases, neglected tropical diseases, and clinical travel medicine. Professor Lau's wide range of research interests include infectious disease epidemiology, spatial epidemiology and disease mapping, infectious disease surveillance and elimination, vaccinations, travel health, environmental health, and digital decision support tools. Her research projects focus on answering practical questions in clinical management of infectious diseases and operational questions on improving strategies to solve public health problems.