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Research Associate

Dr Htein Linn Aung

MBBS, MPH, PhD

Phone
+61 (2) 9348 0953
E-mail
hlaung@kirby.unsw.edu.au
Location
Kirby Institute, , Level 6, Wallace Wurth Building, , UNSW SYDNEY 2052
Traeger MW; Guy R; Taunton C; Chow EPF; Asselin J; Carter A; Aung HL; Bloch M; Fairley CK; McNulty A; Cornelisse VJ; Read P; Owen L; Ryder N; Templeton DJ; O'Donnell D; Donovan B; Hellard ME; Stoové MA, 2024, 'Syphilis testing, incidence, and reinfection among gay and bisexual men in Australia over a decade spanning HIV PrEP implementation: an analysis of surveillance data from 2012 to 2022', The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2024.101175
2024
King JM; Dobbins T; Keen P; Cornelisse VJ; Stoové M; Nigro SJ; Asselin J; Higgins N; Mao L; Aung HL; Petoumenos K; McGregor S, 2024, 'Trends in HIV testing and HIV stage at diagnosis among people newly diagnosed with HIV', AIDS, 38, pp. 1774 - 1782, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000003961
2024
Xu Y; Aung HL; Hesam-Shariati N; Keay L; Sun X; Phu J; Honson V; Tully PJ; Booth A; Lewis E; Anderson CS; Anstey KJ; Peters R, 2024, 'Contrast Sensitivity, Visual Field, Color Vision, Motion Perception, and Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review', Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 25, pp. 105098, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2024.105098
2024
Harney BL; Sacks-Davis R; Agius P; van Santen DK; Traeger MW; Wilkinson AL; Asselin J; Fairley CK; Roth N; Bloch M; Matthews GV; Donovan B; Guy R; Stoové M; Hellard ME; Doyle JS; Aung HL; Baillie G; Bastian L; Bateson D; Boyd M; Carter A; Cogle A; Costello J; Dimech W; El-Hayek C; Ellard J; Franklin L; Hocking J; Kim J; Nguyen L; Nguyen T; Nolan D; O’Connor C; Patel P; Pendle S; Polkinghorne V; Reed P; Ryder N; Selvey C; Walker M; Watson N, 2024, 'Risk of Primary Incident Hepatitis C Infection Following Bacterial Sexually Transmissible Infections Among Gay and Bisexual Men in Australia From 2016 to 2020', Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofae099
2024
Munari SC; Wilkinson AL; Asselin J; Owen L; Read P; Finlayson R; Martin S; Bell C; O’Connor CC; Carter A; Guy R; McNulty A; Varma R; Chow EPF; Fairley CK; Donovan B; Stoove M; Goller JL; Hocking J; Hellard ME; Aung HL; Dimech W; Apostolellis A; Cogle A; Quinn B; Bradley C; Coase D; Heath-Paynter D; Lewis D; Nolan D; Huddy E; Sanguineti E; Douglas F; Amin J; Davies J; Doumany J; Bastian L; Charleton M; Gunathilake M; Campbell M; Pony M; Alliance S; Roth N; Cunningham P; Rees T; Baillie G; Nguyen T; Polkinghorne V; Traeger M; Watson N, 2024, 'Chlamydia retesting remains low among young women in Australia: an observational study using sentinel surveillance data, 2018–2022', Sexual Health, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH23178
2024
Cysique LA; Brew BJ; Bruning J; Byrd D; Costello J; Daken K; Ellis RJ; Fazeli PL; Goodkin K; Gouse H; Heaton RK; Letendre S; Levin J; Aung HL; Mindt MR; Moore D; Mullens AB; de Almeida SM; Muñoz-Moreno JA; Power C; Robbins RN; Rule J; Rajasuriar R; Savin MJ; Taylor J; Trunfio M; Vance DE; Wong PL; Woods SP; Wright EJ; Rourke SB, 2024, 'Cognitive criteria in HIV: greater consensus is needed', Nature Reviews Neurology, 20, pp. 127 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41582-024-00927-1
2024
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', Journal of Infectious Diseases, 227, pp. S38 - S47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiac388
2023
Aung PST; Kyaw MH; Aung HL; Lwin KT, 2023, 'Awareness on dengue haemorrhagic fever prevention in Insein township, Yangon region, Myanmar', International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health, 10, pp. 3965 - 3970, http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20233145
2023
Heron JE; McManus H; Vickers T; Ryan K; Wright E; Carter A; Stoove M; Asselin J; Grulich A; Donovan B; Guy R; Varma R; Chen M; Ryder N; Lewis DA; Templeton DJ; O’Connor CC; Gracey DM; Bastian L; Bateson D; Bowden S; Boyd M; Callander D; Aung HL; Cogle A; Costello J; Dimech W; Dittmer J; El-Hayek C; Ellard J; Fairley C; Franklin L; Hellard M; Hocking J; Kim J; McGill S; Nolan D; Patel P; Pendle S; Polkinghorne V; Nguyen L; Nguyen T; O’Connor C; Reed P; Roth N; Selvey C; Traeger M; Walker M; West M, 2023, 'Renal impairment associated with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate for antiretroviral therapy and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis: An observational cohort study', PLoS ONE, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280339
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
2023
Aung HL; Siefried KJ; Gates TM; Brew BJ; Mao L; Carr A; Cysique LA, 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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101792
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, 19, pp. 4999 - 5009, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.13082
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), 37, pp. 3128 - 3136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41433-023-02481-4
2023
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
2022
Peters R; Xu Y; Fitzgerald O; Aung HL; Beckett NS; Bulpitt CJ; Chalmers J; Forette F; Gong J; Harris K; Humburg P; Matthews FE; Staessen J; 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
2022
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
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
2021
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
2019
King J; McLachlan J; Romero N; Cowie B; Nguyen A; Kwon A; Broady T; McManus H; Asselin J; Traeger M; Aung H; Maher L; Heard S; Bavinton B; Holt M; Gray R; McGregor S, 2024, Tracking the Progress 2023: Executive Summaries, Sydney, Australia, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/30154, https://www.kirby.unsw.edu.au/research/reports/tracking-progress-2023-executive-summaries
2024
Peters R; Xu Y; Fitzgerald O; Aung HL; Beckett NS; Bulpitt CJ; Chalmers J; Forette F; Gong J; Harris K; Humburg P; Matthews FE; Staessen J; Thijs L; Tzourio C; Warwick J; Woodward M; Anderson CS, 2022, 'Effects of blood pressure lowering for the prevention of dementia: meta‐analysis of individual patient data from five seminal randomised controlled trials involving 28008 participants', in Alzheimer's & Dementia, Wiley, Vol. 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.060056
2022
Xu Y; Phu J; Aung HL; Hesam‐Shariati N; Auty J; Keay L; Tully PJ; Booth A; Anderson CS; Anstey KJ; Peters R, 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
2021
Aung HL; Gates TM; Mao L; Brew B; Siefried K; Carr A; Cysique L, 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
2022
Honey M; Waterworth S; Aung H, 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
2016

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