Chunling Lu, Ph.D.

Dr. Lu’s research has three emphases: (1) investigating child and adolescent health and well-being at the global, regional, and country levels with a special focus on resources invested and the related outcomes; (2) conducting economic evaluation of health policy or medical interventions; and (3) developing data and methods to facilitate the investigations in the first and second areas. Dr. Lu has been serving as a member of the Joint Technical Working Group for Early Childhood Development Metrics hosted by the UNICEF, WHO, and World Bank. She is a technical consultant and contributor to the UNESCO Global Report on Early Childhood Care & Education in 2024. She serves as a commissioner to the Lancet Series on Adolescent Health and Well-Being (2022-2025) and leads an investigation on financing adolescent health and well-being. She also leads a series, commissioned by The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific, on resource allocation to child and adolescent mental health and related cost-effective interventions in the Western Pacific region. Dr. Lu is leading costs and cost-effectiveness analyses for projects, funded by NIH, that focus on delivering mental health and nurturing care by training community health workers in rural India and Guatemala. She obtained the Fulbright US Scholarship and conducted research and teaching at the National Taiwan University in 2024.