Eric Lau

Associate Professor Eric Lau is an infectious disease epidemiologist and biostatistician who specialises in using quantitative methods on the prevention, control, risk assessment and surveillance of various emerging and common infectious diseases, and his work extends to broader areas of population health. He is highly interested in applying epidemiological and quantitative methodologies, integration of diverse data sources and multidisciplinary collaboration in his studies.

Eric is an internationally recognised infectious disease epidemiology researcher with a strong commitment to generate robust evidence that has informed national and international public health policy, strengthened epidemic preparedness, and advanced methodological approaches with broad application in Infectious Disease Epidemiology. He has published over 270 peer-reviewed articles with over 45,000 citations, and is a Clarivate Highly Cited researcher (2022-25). His work has contributed to the understanding and control of emerging human and zoonotic diseases such as SARS, MERS, human and avian influenza and COVID-19.