Dr. Meirong Liu is an Associate Professor at the Howard University School of Social Work. Her research has focused on policies and programs that provide access to public benefits for vulnerable populations. She has been involved in several nationally funded projects evaluating the underserved population’s access to public programs, including health care, childcare subsidies, and other support services. Furthermore, she has led evaluations of several federally funded programs that established multi-institutional, comprehensive, long-term partnerships to address health disparities and improve health disparity research in underserved populations.