Qian Lu

Qian Lu is a Professor and Tenured Associate Professor at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her research focuses on health psychology, behavioral sciences, and supportive care in oncology, with a particular emphasis on psychosocial interventions for cancer survivors. Her latest work examines expressive writing interventions for rural breast cancer survivors and culturally adapted writing therapies for Chinese American and Asian American cancer populations, utilizing computational topic modeling and linguistic analysis to understand stress reduction mechanisms. She also investigates mental health care utilization among Black and Hispanic adolescent and young adult cancer survivors, as well as HPV vaccination stigma. Her research has been funded by major grants, including a $1.2 million award for a biobehavioral study on writing therapy among Asian American cancer survivors.