Yang Lu

Yang Lu joined the CSULB Department of Health Care Administration as an assistant professor in Fall 2016. Prior to that, she was a faculty member at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (2013-2016) and the University of Southern California (2010-2013).

  • Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from Pardee RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA
  • MPP from University of Maryland–College Park
  • Bachelor of Law degree from University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China

  • Cost-effectiveness studies
  • Health disparities
  • Improving treatment and outcomes among vulnerable populations

As HCA's primary faculty member for managed care and risk management subject areas, Dr. Lu teaches the following courses:

  • HCA 300 The Health Care System
  • HCA 465 Analysis and Evaluation of Health Care Services
  • HCA 468 Principles of Risk Management and Patient Safety
  • HCA 502 Health Care System
  • HCA 527 Research methods

  • Barriers to Healthy Eating and Diabetes Diet Education: Divergent Perspectives of Patients and Their Providers.
  • Persistent airflow obstruction in inner-city children with asthma.
  • Role of provider encouragement on patient engagement via online portals.
  • Phototherapy for Neonatal Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia: Examining Outcomes by Level of Care.
  • Clinical and socioeconomic factors associated with negative pediatric appendicitis.
  • GWAS for Drug Discovery
  • Divergent Perceptions of Barriers to Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Among Patients and Care Providers, Los Angeles, California, 2014-2015.
  • Negative Appendectomy: Clinical and Economic Implications.
  • Misdiagnosing adult appendicitis: clinical, cost, and socioeconomic implications of negative appendectomy.
  • Disparities in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Rates Within Minority Populations: Differences in Reported Screening Rates Among African American and Hispanic Patients
  • Do Children with Autism Overutilize the Emergency Department? Examining Visit Urgency and Subsequent Hospital Admissions
  • Inpatient admissions and costs of congenital heart disease from adolescence to young adulthood
  • Patient Perspectives on Peer Mentoring: Type 1 Diabetes Management in Adolescents and Young Adults
  • Chronic Stable Angina Is Associated with Lower Health-Related Quality of Life: Evidence from Chinese Patients
  • Dynamic cost-effectiveness of oncology drugs
  • A Profile of Nonurgent Emergency Department Use in an Urban Pediatric Hospital
  • Caring For ACHD In A Market-Driven Society
  • Medical Expenditure Measures in the Health and Retirement Study.
  • Sexually transmitted diseases among users of erectile dysfunction drugs: Analysis of claims data
  • Clinical and behavioral correlates of achieving and maintaining glycemic targets in an underserved population with type 2 diabetes