Dr Liwen Guo is a Lecturer at Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University. Her research lies at the intersection of health economics, public health policy evaluation, labour economics, and environmental economics. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her work focuses on identifying the causal relationships between external shocks, individual health, and socioeconomic outcomes.

Dr Guo is proficient in applied economic methods, including difference in differences, instrumental variables, and fixed effects models. She conducts empirical research using large scale micro survey data, longitudinal datasets, administrative records, policy texts, and regional statistical data. Her research focuses on public health events, environmental risks, childhood adversity, education investment, energy poverty, entrepreneurship, migrant integration, and the health and welfare of vulnerable populations.

Her research has been published in leading SSCI journals, including British Journal of Industrial Relations, Energy Economics, China Economic Review, and The Singapore Economic Review. She has contributed to research projects associated with leading national think tanks in China, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Harvard University in the United States, as well as projects funded by the Australian Research Council Linkage Program and the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care's Medical Research Future Fund. Through these experiences, she has developed extensive expertise in domestic and international collaboration, policy evaluation, and large scale data research. She is also a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization and has previously served as a Senior Research Fellow at The Kids Institute Australia, as well as a Senior Research Fellow and Research Analyst at the AustChina Institute.