Dr Lu Gram is a leading researcher on women's and communities' empowerment in low- and middle-income countries and a specialist in collective action for health and gender equality. He is a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow and recipient of a Naughton Clifts-Matthew grant. Lu has published 25 peer-reviewed articles on topics of maternal and child health, women's empowerment, and community mobilisation.

Over his career in Global Health, Dr Gram has lived and worked in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Ghana, Nigeria, DRC, Uganda, and Kenya with research partners from World Health Organization, Saving Newborn Lives, and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr Gram regularly consults for universities and international NGOs and has worked for Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Population Council, and WHO. Dr Gram is a fellow of the Institute for the Future of Work.

Dr Gram has a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Oxford, an MPhil from Cambridge in Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technology, and an MSc from LSHTM in Medical Statistics. He was a Research Fellow at LSHTM from 2010-2016 before joining UCL to begin his PhD in Global Health and Development. During his PhD, he was supervised by health economist Dr Jolene Skordis-Worrall and medical anthropologist Dr Joanna Morrison and examined by sociologist Cicely Marston and economist Pedro Carneiro.