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 Q1, ABS4/3, ABDC A*/A journals, including British Journal of Industrial Relations, Energy Economics, China Economic Review, and The Singapore Economic Review. She has participated in projects funded by China’s National Social Science Fund and major projects of Key Research Bases for Humanities and Social Sciences under the Ministry of Education at a national high end think tank in China; projects funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Harvard University; Australian Research Council Linkage projects at the University of New South Wales and Western Sydney University; and Medical Research Future Fund projects supported by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care at the University of Western Australia and the Kids Research Institute Australia. These experiences have equipped her with extensive expertise in 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 Officer at the Kids Institute Australia, a Senior Research Fellow and Research Analyst at the AustChina Institute, as well as a Reseach Associate at the University of New South Wales.