Graduate School of Public Policy

Position:	Assistant Professor
Education Background:	Ph.D. in Education, University of Rochester (USA)

Research Areas

Policy communication and education for development

Research Output 

Contact information

Dr. Lisa Lim
Assistant Professor 
Graduate School of Public Policy
Room 4.005 Nazarbayev University
53 Kabanbay batyr Avenue
Astana, Kazakhstan 010000
Telephone: +7 7172 70 90 52
Email: lisa.lim@nu.edu.kz

Dr. Lisa Lim is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy (Nazarbayev University). She has a PhD degree in Education from the University of Rochester, USA. Prior to joining the GSPP, she held a Visiting Professor position at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management in South Korea. Her teaching experience includes Principles of Strategic Communication, Communicating Through Social Media, Writing for Policy Audiences, Creating & Delivering Policy Presentations, and Youth Leaders Policy Communication.

As an international consultant, she has more than 15 years of experience in communicating and participating in policy processes with numerous government agencies and international development organizations such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB), USAID, JICA, and KOICA, in South Asia, Africa, and Southeast Asia contexts. Her policy communication experience also involved writing reports and delivering presentations to consulting firms, government agencies, think tanks, and advocacy groups; and policy recommendations for various education programs in low and middle-income countries.

Recent publications: https://sites.google.com/view/lisalim

Peer-reviewed journal articles

2025

• Optimizing Antibiotic Stewardship and Reducing Antimicrobial Resistance in Central Asia: A Study Protocol for Evidence-Based Practice and Policy: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0307784

2024

• A Nationwide Evaluation of Antibiotics Consumption in Kazakhstan from 2019 to 2023: https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics13121123
• Point-prevalence survey of antimicrobial use and healthcare-associated
  infections in four acute care hospitals in Kazakhstan: https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics13100981
• Consumption Trends of Antifungal and Antiprotozoal Agents for Human Systemic Use in Kazakhstan from 2017 to 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics13090857
• Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Antibiotics and Their
  Consumption in the Population of Kazakhstan. Antibiotics2024, 13(8), 718.

       https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics13080718

• Refractive Errors, Amplitude of Accommodation, and Myopia Progression in Kazakhstan Medical Students: 5-Year Follow-Up. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm13133985
• Historical evolution of healthcare systems of post-soviet Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, and Azerbaijan: A scoping review. Heliyon 2024, 10(8), e29550. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e29550

Book chapters

• Lim, L. (2014). Technology in Education. Sociology in Education. Thousand Oaks: SAGE.

Reports

• Lim, L (2016).  Asian Leadership. ADB & Leadership Education Programs
• Lim, L. (2016). Senior Secondary Education Policy for Mongolia. ADB & Mongolia Ministry of Education.
• Lim, L. & Paik, S. (2015). Vocational Education and Training (VET). K-Developedia (2015). VET Teacher Education Policy in South Korea. K-Developedia
• Lim, L. (2013). Auto-ethnographic Reflection of English Language Learner in the U.S. Rethink