Lida Fan

Dr. Lida Fan serves as an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Lakehead University, specializing in social policy analysis, program evaluation, and structural determinants of inequality. Her interdisciplinary research bridges social work, public health, and economic policy with a focus on vulnerable populations.

Academic Background:

• PhD (institution and year unspecified)

Her research portfolio critically examines poverty attribution mechanisms, migration impacts, and healthcare access disparities. Key thematic clusters include: structural analysis of poverty in transitional economies, Indigenous health and socioeconomic outcomes in Canada, maternal-child health determinants in developing contexts, and migration policy implications for urban Aboriginal communities. Methodologically, she employs multilevel modeling and longitudinal cross-national comparisons.

Publication trends (2014-2017) reveal three dominant trajectories: (1) Poverty attribution frameworks across post-communist societies using multilevel public opinion data, (2) Health outcome analyses focusing on prenatal care quality and maternal healthcare systems in Tajikistan/Azerbaijan, and (3) Indigenous socioeconomic mobility studies in Canada examining education-occupation returns. Her work consistently centers marginalized populations through mixed-methods policy evaluation.

No scientific awards are documented in the source material.

Dr. Fan maintains an active SSHRC-funded research program addressing structural inequality and social policy efficacy. Her grant portfolio demonstrates sustained investigation into poverty dynamics, migration consequences, and healthcare access barriers.

Selected Research Grants (since 2012)

• 2017: Impact of global crisis on changes in public attribution of poverty: A multilevel analysis of 28 transitional countries (SSHRC Insight Grant, Co-Investigator; PI: Nazim Habibov)
• 2015: Institutional trust and welfare state support (SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Co-Investigator)
• 2012: Migration of Aboriginal people to cities and its policy implications: A tale of two cities (SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Principal Investigator; Co-Is: Keith Brownlee, Nazim Habibov, Raymond Neckoway)
• 2012: Working but still poor: Understanding working poverty through multi-year multi-country study of Canada, US, UK, Germany, and Switzerland (SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Co-Investigator; PI: N. Habibov)