Assistant Professor, Center on Aging
bwu@hsc.wvu.edu

Dr. Wu received her Ph.D. degree from the Gerontology Center, University of Massachusetts Boston in 2000. She was a Senior Research Associate at the Health Economics Research, Inc. and Center for Health Economics Research from 2000 to 2002. Her main research interests are
Access to care and health services utilization (including dental care utilization), dementia and caregiving, and minority and international aging. She has experience in conducting quantitative, qualitative, and evaluation research. She was the co- investigator on the two national dementia caregiver intervention policy evaluation studies funded by the Retirement Research Foundation and the Helen Bader Foundation.

As a Co-PI and project coordinator, she was also extensively involved in a small demonstration of in-home individualized interventions for Chinese dementia caregivers funded by the Boston Foundation. She participated in Medicare Risk-Adjustment Study for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. As a part of the study, she took the lead in developing rates as possible benchmarks for Congestive Heart Failure and these rates were provided to a national panel of clinicians making recommendations about quality indicators. As a Principal investigator, she is current working on two projects related to immigration impact on Chinese elders’ health and health services utilizations, and evaluation of long-term care system in rural areas of China. In addition, as a PI, she is taking a lead on conducting a pilot study on cognitive function’s impact on oral health of older adults in West Virginia.