معرفی
Jiayao Lei is an Assistant Professor at Karolinska Institutet and a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. Her work focuses on cancer epidemiology, particularly cervical cancer prevention through HPV vaccination and screening optimization. She is affiliated with the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, and the Center for Cervical Cancer Elimination Modelling and simulation research group at KI.
- PhD in Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet (2020)
- Master of Medical Science, Karolinska Institutet (2015)
Her research spans cancer epidemiology, vaccine effectiveness, risk prediction modeling, and health economics. She leverages Swedish national registers and biobank data to evaluate HPV vaccination programs and cervical screening performance, contributing to WHO's cervical cancer elimination strategy.
Her recent publications demonstrate a focus on HPV epidemiology, cervical cancer prevention, and infectious disease modeling. Key trends include population-based cohort studies, self-sampling methods, and cross-country SARS-CoV-2 transmission analyses.
Scientific awards include the Dimitris N. Chorafas Prize 2020 for her thesis on cervical cancer prevention. Her work is funded by the Swedish Research Council, Forte, Swedish Cancer Society, and KI Strategic Research Area grants.
As an educator, she teaches Clinical Cancer Epidemiology (KCL & KI) and Introduction to Epidemiology (Scandinavian Kiropractorhöskolan). Current team members include PhD student Eva Meglic, postdoc Yunyang Deng, and research assistants, with former advisees like Ana Martina Astorga Alsina.
