Overview
Background
Yang is currently a Honorary Research Fellow in UQ School of Public Health and a Research Fellow in Cancer Epidemiology Division of Cancer Council Victoria. He has extensive experience in analysing large-scale national and international health surveys and hospitalisaiton datasets with complex statistical models. He is interested in answering a couple of research questions in the population level (e.g. the associations between modifiable behaviors and chronic diseases; the inequalities in chronic disease risk).
Availability
- Dr Yang Peng is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Masters (Research) of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University
- Doctor of Philosophy of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Data linkage in medicine
The large-scaled linked surveys and hospitalisations datasets could answer quite a few key research questions in public health and clinical medicine. However, most of them are largely underused and wasted. The share and use of them are greatly appreciated.
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Lifestyle factors and chronic diseases
It is well known that lifestyle factors are associated with risk of chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. However, whether the association strength between lifestyle factors and chronic diseases varied by subpopulations and what are the combined effects of lifestyle factors on chronic diseases are not well studied. They need to be investigated in large-scale population-based studies.
Research impacts
His research findings provided up-to-date information to the policy makers on the lifestyle factors status in the general Australian population, which facilitated the chronic disease prevention and management in the wide communities. His works generated evidence on closing the survival gaps for those 'disadvantaged' populations (e.g., First Nations and people with lower socioeconomic status) and improved our understanding of adverse outcomes for cardiovascular disease and cancer patients in Australia.
Works
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2013
Journal Article
Teicoplanin as an effective alternative to vancomycin for treatment of MRSA infection in Chinese population: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Peng, Yang, Ye, Xiaohua, Li, Ying, Bu, Tao, Chen, Xiaofeng, Bi, Jiaqi, Zhou, Junli and Yao, Zhenjiang (2013). Teicoplanin as an effective alternative to vancomycin for treatment of MRSA infection in Chinese population: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. PLoS One, 8 (11) e79782, 1-8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079782
2013
Journal Article
Linezolid versus teicoplanin for MRSA pneumonia: A meta-analysis
Peng, Yang, Chen, Xiao-Feng, Bi, Jia-Qi and Yao, Zhen-Jiang (2013). Linezolid versus teicoplanin for MRSA pneumonia: A meta-analysis. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 13 (11), 1340-1346. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20130230
Funding
Current funding
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Yang Peng is:
- Available for supervision
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Available projects
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Lifestyle factors and chronic disease incidence and mortality in adults
Although unhealthy lifestyle factors are known to be associated with increased chronic disease incidence and mortality in adults, a number of questions on the topic are still to be answered (e.g., do the magnitude of associations changed over time and varied by demographaphic or socioeconomic factors?) Join our team and work them out with large national and international cohorts.
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Inequalities in chronic disease risk
The burden of chronic diseases is more obvious in some 'disadvantaged' population (e.g., First Nations and socioeconomically disadvantaged people). However, the contributors of the inequalities are not well documented and they need to be answered to close the gap in chronic disease risk.
Media
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