KONGLAI ZHANG, M.D.

Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Peking Union Medical College

Konglai Zhang, M.D. is Director of China AIDS Network, an NGO that has been emphasizing research and intervention on social/behavior aspects as well as on policy development. He has been working on HIV issues for more 10 years and has served as member of the National Expert Consultation Committee in charge of the group that involves the above said issues on HIV/AIDS.

Since the early 1990s, with his graduate students, he started working on research projects among taxi drivers and hotel attendants in Beijing, long-distance lorry drivers working in the province bordering Vietnam, overseas workers, prostitutes detained in the detention centers in Beijing, Nanjing, DaLian and Xian cities and municipalities, female and male detainees in Shengzhen (which borders Hong Kong), health-care seeking behavior among patients with STDs, feasibility of integration HIV/AIDS services to the Family Planning Institute, behavioral studies among drug users, needs assessment of sex education and awareness on HIV among high school students in Beijing, intervention studies among coal miners on HIV issues, social and economic impact to the community related to HIV, educational and invention studies among female workers in the rural entertaining settings in the southern part of China. He has been engaged in condom promotion in China and in the development of Mid-term Plans of the country.

Zhang has served as short-term consultant to many international organizations, including as WHO, UNDP, and UNICEF and has shared his views on HIV in China at many international and national conferences.