Ce Shen, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Social Work of Boston College. His work has been based on the cross-national comparative studies in the field of social development including governance and corruption, infant/child mortality, maternal mortality, women’s status, mental health services research, aging and social welfare policy in international and cross-cultural context, and advanced quantitative data analysis methods, including structural equation modeling, hierarchical linear modeling, longitudinal data analysis and other multivariate analysis methods.