Xiaoqing Lu Boynton

Xiaoqing Lu Boynton is a fellow with the Global Health Policy Center at CSIS. Previously, she was a fellow with the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies, where she worked on projects related to China’s domestic socioeconomic transformation. Her research interests include public health challenges in China and Asia, health diplomacy, emerging donors in global health, and environmental health. She is a coauthor of several CSIS reports, including China’s Health amidst the Global Economic Crisis: Potential Effects and Challenges (October 2009), Assessing Chinese Government Response to the Challenge of Environment and Health (July 2008), and China’s Civil Society Organizations: What Future in the Health Sector (November 2007), and editor of China’s Capacity to Manage Infectious Diseases (April 2009). She has also authored articles on nontraditional security threats in China’s environment and health sectors in the South China Morning Post, China Environment Series, and Global AIDSLink.

Prior to joining CSIS, Ms. Boynton worked with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. She holds an M.A. in sustainable international development from Brandeis University and a B.A. in international economics and trade from Beijing Second Foreign Language University. Before attending graduate school, Ms. Boynton worked as a program assistant for the American Bar Association’s Asia Law Initiative in Beijing. She is fluent in English and Chinese.