Dr Yang Zhao
Research Fellow in Social Science
LSHTM
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom
I am a social anthropologist with a research focus on masculinity, health and social media, and I am currently part of the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team. With over a decade of ethnographic experience in Central Asia, my work has explored how gender and health intersect in everyday life. I am now extending this research to Sub-Saharan Africa to examine the socio-cultural dimensions of infectious disease outbreak responses.
Affiliations
Teaching
I have a strong track record of teaching, assessing and supervisory experience, ranging from Sociology of Health, Introduction to Anthropology, and Qualitative Research Methods, at both graduate and undergraduate levels.
°®ÍþÄÌapp of Hygiene and tropical Medicine, UK
- Lecturer and Seminar Leader for Sexual Health module (2025)
- Seminar Leader for Issues in Public Health module (2024)
- Supervisor and tutor for M.Sc. Public Health (2024-2025)
- Supervisor for M.Sc. Health in Humanitarian Crisis by Distance Learning (2025)
- Supervisor for M.Sc. Public Health by Distance Learning (2023-2024)
University of Queensland, Australia
- Guest Lecturer for Medical Anthropology (2022)
- Tutor for Anthropology of Current World Issues (2022-2023)
- Tutor for Educational Research Methodology (2022)
- Tutor for Introduction to Health, Illness and Society (2020-2021)
- Tutor for Teachers as Agents of Changes (2020-2021)
Millat Umidi University, Uzbekistan
- Lecturer for Introduction to Critical Thinking (2021-2022)
Research
My current role includes conducting and supporting social science research and capacity strengthening activities through working with various collaborators such as Africa CDC, Ministry of Health of Uganda, Makerere University and the University of São Paulo.
I co-design and co-lead research projects within the UK-PHRST Social Science team through collaborating with other UK-PHRST teams and external collaborators across Africa and Latin America. A critical part of my responsibilities involves disseminating and applying research through publications, conference presentations, policy reports and community engagement initiatives. My current projects include:
(1) Gender and IPC measures among female health care workers in Brazil (Co-lead)
(2) Challenges to local social scientists' participation in outbreak response in sub-Saharan Africa (Co-lead)
Selected Publications
