Resumé

Nikolay Lunchenkov is a doctoral student at the Professorship for Global Health at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology since November 2022. Before joining the team, he completed an MSc in Health Science at the Technical Univeristy of Munich and finished his medical studies (medical doctor) specialising in infectious diseases at Sechenov University (Moscow, Russia). He worked as a public health and community manager for several years in leading global organisations (UNAIDS, UNFPA). He was involved in a cross-sectional study investigating the impact of COVID-19 on sexual behaviour and intimate partner violence of male PrEP users in Ukraine. 

His master's thesis, "The investigation of factors associated with substance use and risky sexual behaviour among men who have sex with men in Los Angeles", focused on various factors that influence substance use among gay and bisexual men and was accomplished in partnership with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

He currently performs consulting services as an LGBT health coordinator in the Eurasian Coalition on Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity. Nikolay has experience both from a medical and community perspective, and his main research interest lies in sexual health, PrEP and substance use among gay men.