Chu Zhuang is a PhD student in Health Services Research at University of Maryland, College Park. She is also a graduated research and teaching assistant. She has great interest in evidence-based health services research on children and program/intervention studies focused on children, policies for low-income families and health disparities. She has published works in peer-reviewed journals and ongoing works around COVID-19 as well as presented at professional conferences. She has completed her Master’s in health sciences at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and graduated with honors in Economics and math minor from University of Washington- Seattle. Previously, she also worked as a research fellow at Association of American Medical Colleges.