Lei Zhou

Professor Lei Zhou holds a MD in Epidemiology of the Peking University and her Diploma of Global Health of Duke University and Peking University, and participated in the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) on the job education in China CDC.

Author of over 50 publications, she is Member of the Youth Committee, the ninth session, Public Health Branch, Chinese Medical Association, Member of the first Committee of Influenza Control and Prevention, Chinese Society of Preventive Medicine, Member of the first World Health Organization Pandemic Influenza Special Studies (PSS) expert working group, Member of the WHO/GOARN global expertise network.

Professor Zhou is in charge of the prevention and control of emerging infectious disease such as avian influenza (different variants), plague, Ebola, MERS, Zika, etc, and pandemic preparedness and response in China CDC, and was invited as a Guest Researcher in US CDC several times for collaboration and cooperation on pandemic preparedness and global health. She provided assistance as a scientific expert on behalf of China to HFMD outbreak in Cambodia in 2012 and Histoplasma public health event in Guyana in 2019 and joined the WHO Yolanda Humanitarian Response for two months in the Philippines in 2014. Professor Zhou has served as a scientific expert of the WHO Joint External Evaluation (JEE) in Brunei in 2019, and the WHO-China joint mission of H7N9 response assessment in 2013.

Professor Zhou has worked as the deputy lead of the Epidemiology Task Force and International Collaboration Task Force within the COVID-19 emergency response in China CDC since COVID-19 was detected at the end of 2019. She was deployed to the field for investigation firstly in 2019 and served as scientific expert of the WHO-China joint mission of COVID-19 response assessment in February in 2020 and the WHO Global COVID-19 Origin Tracing Study-China part in 2021.