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Dr Htein Linn Aung
Research Associate

Dr Htein Linn Aung

MBBS, MPH, PhD

Medicine & Health
The Kirby Institute

Dr Aung is a medical doctor from Myanmar. He attained a research master’s degree in public health at the University of Auckland and recently completed PhD in Medicine at UNSW focusing on an epidemiology project related to HIV and neurocognitive aging. He also has extensive experience in HIV and STI prevention and control areas. He worked as a clinician and as a public health professional in several HIV and STI prevention, treatment, and surveillance projects with various international non-governmental organizations in Myanmar. His research interests lie in the areas of evaluation of public health policies and interventions through analysis of administrative datasets, and epidemiology of medical and neuropsychiatric comorbidities among people living with HIV. 
Phone
+61 (2) 9348 0953
E-mail
hlaung@kirby.unsw.edu.au
Location
Kirby Institute Level 6, Wallace Wurth Building UNSW SYDNEY 2052
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Aung HL; Alagaratnam J; Chan P; Chow FC; Joska J; Falutz J; Letendre SL; Lin W; Muñoz-Moreno JA; Cinque P; Taylor J; Brew B; Winston A, 2023, 'Cognitive Health in Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: The Impact of Early Treatment, Comorbidities, and Aging', The Journal of infectious diseases, 227, pp. S38 - S47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiac388
    Journal articles | 2023
    Aung HL; Bloch M; Vincent T; Mao L; Brew BJ; Cysique LA, 2023, 'Low incidence of advanced neurological burden but high incidence of age-related conditions that are dementia risk factors in aging people living with HIV: a data-linkage 10-year follow-up study', Journal of NeuroVirology, 29, pp. 141 - 155, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13365-022-01104-0
    Journal articles | 2023
    Xu Y; Aung HL; Bateman RJ; Brooks WS; Chhatwal J; Day GS; Fagan AM; Farlow MR; Gordon B; Kehoe PG; Levin J; Mori H; Morris JC; Wharton W; Humburg P; Schofield PR; Peters R, 2023, 'Higher systolic blood pressure in early-mid adulthood is associated with poorer cognitive performance in those with a dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease mutation but not in non-carriers. Results from the DIAN study', Alzheimer's and Dementia, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.13082
    Journal articles | 2023
    Xu Y; Phu J; Aung HL; Hesam-Shariati N; Keay L; Tully PJ; Booth A; Anderson CS; Anstey KJ; Peters R, 2023, 'Frequency of coexistent eye diseases and cognitive impairment or dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Eye (Basingstoke), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41433-023-02481-4
    Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Meaningful cognitive decline is uncommon in virally suppressed HIV, but sustained impairment, subtle decline and abnormal cognitive aging are not', eClinicalMedicine, 56, pp. 101792 - 101792, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101792
    Journal articles | 2022
    Aung HL; Gates TM; Mao L; Brew BJ; Rourke SB; Cysique LA, 2022, 'Abnormal cognitive aging in people with HIV: evidence from data integration between two countries’ cohort studies', AIDS, 36, pp. 1171 - 1179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000003230
    Journal articles | 2022
    Peters R; Xu Y; Fitzgerald O; Aung HL; Beckett N; Bulpitt C; Chalmers J; Forette F; Gong J; Harris K; Humburg P; Matthews FE; Staessen JA; Thijs L; Tzourio C; Warwick J; Woodward M; Anderson CS, 2022, 'Blood pressure lowering and prevention of dementia: an individual patient data meta-analysis', European Heart Journal, 43, pp. 4980 - 4990, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac584
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Blood pressure lowering and prevention of dementia: an individual patient data meta-analysis', European Heart Journal, 43, pp. 4980 - 4990, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac584
    Journal articles | 2021
    Aung HL; Aghvinian M; Gouse H; Robbins RN; Brew BJ; Mao L; Cysique LA, 2021, 'Is There Any Evidence of Premature, Accentuated and Accelerated Aging Effects on Neurocognition in People Living with HIV? A Systematic Review', AIDS and Behavior, 25, pp. 917 - 960, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-020-03053-3
    Journal articles | 2021
    Aung HL; Bloch M; Vincent T; Quan D; Jayewardene A; Liu Z; Gates TM; Brew B; Mao L; Cysique LA, 2021, 'Cognitive ageing is premature among a community sample of optimally treated people living with HIV', HIV Medicine, 22, pp. 151 - 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hiv.12980
    Journal articles | 2019
    Aung HL; Kootar S; Gates TM; Brew BJ; Cysique LA, 2019, 'How all-type dementia risk factors and modifiable risk interventions may be relevant to the first-generation aging with HIV infection?', European Geriatric Medicine, 10, pp. 227 - 238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41999-019-00164-6
  • Conference Posters | 2022
    2022, 'Clinically significant cognitive decline is uncommon in virally suppressed HIV. However, there was a signal for abnormal aging and complex impact of psychosocial and socio-economic factors on longitudinal cognitive performance', Virtual, presented at Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Virtual, 14 February 2022 - 16 February 2022
    Conference Abstracts | 2021
    2021, 'Incidence and prevalence of coexistent retinal diseases and cognitive impairment or dementia: A systematic review', in Alzheimer's & Dementia, Wiley, Vol. 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.055870
    Conference Papers | 2016
    2016, 'Older consumers' readiness for e-health in New Zealand', in Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, pp. 178 - 182, http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-658-3-178

New Zealand ASEAN Scholarship Award - 2013 

University International Postgraduate Award from University of New South Wales - 2018

HIV and STI Surveillance

HIV and aging

HIV and cognitive aging

Non-AIDS conditions among people living with HIV