Nancy Yu PhD

Nancy Xiaonan Yu, PhD is an Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research program has focused on resilience in adversities, by examining the resilience process and promotive and protective factors at the individual, dyadic, family, and community levels. Her resilience-oriented studies involve chronic illnesses (e.g., HIV, cancer, coronary heart disease), acculturation (e.g., migration, cross-border adjustment), losses (e.g., parental absence, bereavement), challenges (e.g., discrimination and stigma, parenting stress, aging), and crisis (e.g., natural disaster, COVID-19 pandemic). In addition, she has applied the community-based participatory research approach to develop and implement culturally sensitive interventions to promote resilience in stressful populations. With a strong passion for interdisciplinary research, Dr. Yu has been working closely with researchers and practitioners in social work, public health, nursing, tourism, data science, neuroscience, and biomedical science.