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Professor Lu, Peiyi 盧佩儀

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Assistant Professor

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Professor Lu, Peiyi 盧佩儀

Title:
Assistant Professor

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Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
2015-2017Fu Jen Catholic UniversityMaster
2011-2015Sun Yat-Sen UniversityB.A.
2019-2021Iowa State UniversityM.S.
2017-2021Iowa State UniversityPh.D.
Biography

Prof. Lu is a gerontologist with expertise in social work, public health, and statistics. Her research interests broadly include gerontological social work, health disparity, social welfare policy related to aging, and quantitative methodology. She specializes in investigating the socioeconomic and cultural determinants of health in later life using cross-national and longitudinal survey data. She also has extensive experience in utilizing causal inference analysis to evaluate social welfare policies (e.g., elder abuse, anti-poverty, food insecurity) in China and the United States, with an ultimate goal of advancing social justice and health equity through policy advocacy.

Prof. Lu has a MSW from Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan. She completed her PhD in Gerontology and MS in Statistics in 2021 from Iowa State University, USA. Before joining HKU, she was a postdoctoral fellow in social epidemiology at Columbia University, USA.

 
Honours, Awards & Prizes
AwardeesAward DateHonours / Awards / PrizesCategory
2020-11-14Junior Investigator Diversity Fellowship
Research Achievement
2020-11-14Emerging Scholar and Professional Organization (ESPO) Poster Award of 2020 GSA conference
Research Achievement
2019-11-16Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE) Graduate Student Paper Award of 2019 GSA conference
Research Achievement
2018-11-13Behavioral and Social Sciences Section Student Research Award – Pre-Dissertation of 2018 GSA conference
Research Achievement
2017-08-14Presidential Scholar Award
Research Achievement
2021-05-08Zaffarano Prize (Honorable Mention)
Research Achievement
2021-05-08Research Excellence Award
Research Achievement
2021-11-01The 2020 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad
Research Achievement
Professional Societies
Term PeriodPositionProfessional Societies
08/2018-presentMemberGerontological Society of America
06/2024-12/2025FellowSau Po Centre on Ageing, HKU
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