LYU AZBEL

Dr. Lyu Azbel (they/them) is a public health researcher with over ten years' experience in designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating health interventions for marginalized populations. Currently an assistant professor at Yale University, Dr. Azbel's research provides solutions to tackling the most stubborn impasses to translating medical technologies into new environments. They have lectured and published widely on issues at the intersections of drugs, incarceration, LGBTQ health, and infectious diseases, including HIV and COVID-19. Inspired by the narcofeminist activist movement, they lead a Berling-based group focused on re-thinking drug use and pleasure within queer communities (@TD4P_Berlin). They have worked in a range of global health settings and are fluent in six languages... Dr. Lyu Azbel's portfolio featuring research projects at the intersection of drug use, marginalized subcultures, and infectious diseases.