Chunling Lu

Chunling Lu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

617-495-4866

Dr. Lu studied international relations (BA) and political science (MA) at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and sociology (MA) and applied statistics (MS) at Syracuse University, where she also received her PhD in economics. She received postdoctoral training on health care policy analysis at the Harvard Medical School’s Department of Health Care Policy, and joined the School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine in 2008 after three-years work at the Harvard Institute for Global Health as Senior Research Associate.

Affliates

Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
- https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/about-us/people/faculty/#L
Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
- https://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/chunling-lu

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.

http://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/programs/economics

Authors: Authors: General Guidelines on Obtaining Financial Data for Local Health Facilities in Two Districts of Rwanda
2013.

Benchmark ECD Investment: An Option Brief

Authors: Authors: Desmond C, Behrman J, Britto P, Boo FL, Daelmans B, Devercelli A, Fawzi W, Fink G, Gertler P, Hoddinott J, Lombardi J, Lu C, Lye S, Nores M, Richter L, Yousafzai A
2018.

Studies Quarterly of Chinese National Academy of Social Science

Authors: Authors: Lu C
2003.

Report on Strengthening Primary Health Care through Community Health Workers: Investment Case and Financing Recommendations

Authors: Authors: Dahn B, Woldemariam AT, Perry H, Maeda A, von Glahn D, Panjabi R, Merchant N, Vosburg K, Palazuelo D, Lu C, Simmon John, Pfaffmann J, Brown D, Hearst A, Heydt P, Qureshi C
2015.