Dr Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management of the Sun Yat-sen University in China. She received her PhD in health economics from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, her MSc in economics from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

As a doctoral student, she spent one year as a visiting scholar at the University of California in the Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Public Health. Dr Zhang’s research focus is health economics, especially health insurance reform, health care financing, health policy evaluation, and cost-effectiveness analysis.