Haidong Lu, PhD

Project Title: Towards an Enhanced Framework: The 'Four Targets' Approach for Generating Real-World Evidence in Medication for Opioid Use Disorder

Haidong Lu serves as an Instructor (NIDA K99 Scholar) in the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and is a junior member of the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine. He is an epidemiologist and methodologist who is passionate about bridging the disciplines of epidemiology, statistics, population health and medical research. His research focuses on leveraging appropriate advanced epidemiologic methods to generate causally interpretable real-world evidence bases from observational data (e.g., electronic health records). In addition to observational studies, Dr. Lu is dedicated to enhancing methodologies for analyzing randomized controlled trials, particularly in addressing challenges related to non-compliance and generalizability. He is also interested in the burgeoning field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for healthcare. His substantive research interests center around substance use, HIV, and pharmacoepidemiology.