Chunling Lu, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of medicine and an assistant professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School. As a health economist, Dr. Lu is currently engaged in five research areas: (1) tracking, measuring, and analyzing national and global funding sources for health; (2) developing methodologies, measurements, and cost information-collecting technologies that facilitate comparative analysis for evaluation research; (3) evaluating the impact of global health aid on health system strengthening and population health outcomes in resource-poor settings; (4) evaluating the progress of universal health coverage, and (5) measuring the economic burden of diseases in developing countries.