Lucy Jordan

Dr. Jordan has over 20 years of experience working with and leading large collaborative applied research studies with vulnerable populations and community organizations especially those in the global South including Southern Africa, Asia and low-income urban areas in the U.S.A. She is a quantitative lead, and co-PI on the longitudinal project Child Health and Migrant Parents in Southeast Asia (CHAMPSEA) [Study countries, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam). This internationally comparative mixed-method study has broken ground in family migration studies, and many other international projects currently in the field have drawn on the design and findings of CHAMPSEA to extend global research on transnational migration families across diverse cultures and family life course stages.

Dr. Jordan’s research focuses on building the evidence base through empirical research, translation of evidence to social policy and intervention, and building capacity in the nonprofit sector to leverage empirical evidence for social change. She is particularly interested in understanding how migration transforms family relationships, and in supporting communities and governments to bolster formal and informal support systems that can enable families to best navigate their migration experiences. In the past five years, she has acted as a consultant for the International Organization of Migration (IOM), UNICEF, Terres d’Hommes, Freedom Fund, Geneva Global and Centre for Asian Philanthropy, and the Hong Kong government.