Qiuda Zheng

Dr. Qiuda Zheng is a Research Fellow at the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences within the University of Queensland's Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences. He completed his PhD in 2022, focusing on wastewater-based epidemiology for substance use estimation.

• Research Focus: Linking public health data with wastewater analysis to monitor tobacco, alcohol, and pharmaceutical consumption trends
• Funding: Holds active grants from ARC, Queensland Corrective Services, Australian Taxation Office, and NHMRC

Research Trends (based on 15 most recent articles):

• Specializes in refining correction/excretion factors for wastewater-based epidemiology
• Investigates substance use patterns across diverse populations (China, Australia, prisons)
• Develops analytical methods for drug/pharmaceutical detection in wastewater
• Examines environmental factors affecting biomarker transformation

Scientific Awards:

• ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
• NHMRC IDEAS Grant