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Shen (Lamson) Lin is a 3rd-year doctoral Student at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and Institute for Life Course and Aging, University of Toronto. He is a critical gerontologist and social epidemiologist jointly trained by the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work (FIFSW) and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health of the University of Toronto. He obtained Master of Art in Social Policy from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Research interest: Social determinants of health (inequity), comparative healthcare system and evidence-based health policy evaluation.

Membership: He is a member of Hong Kong Society of Behavioral Health, member of China Social Security Association and Honorary Research Fellow of Institute of Public Policy, South China University of Technology.

Publications: He has a total of seven academic papers and five of them were health research produced during the past two-year doctoral degree’s training in U of T .

Contact: Shen (Lamson) Lin can be contacted at: lamsonlin.lin@mail.utoronto.ca.

News coverage: With 2-year research experience in analyzing the large-scale data of CLSA, he has been responsible for conducting advanced statistical analyses, populating quantitative results, and engaging with press releases in translating our empirical research findings. For example, he led a paper published in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, which received substantial media attention, including an exclusive live interview by CTV News Channel to share his research on depression among older refugees (January 24, 2020).

Shen (Lamson) Lin, PhD (c), MA
Shen (Lamson) Lin is a 3rd-year doctoral student at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and Institute for Life Course and Aging, University of Toronto. He is a critical gerontologist and social epidemiologist jointly trained by the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work (FIFSW) and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health of the University of Toronto. He obtained Master of Art in Social Policy from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Research interest: Social determinants of health (inequity), comparative healthcare system and evidence-based health policy evaluation.

Membership: He is a member of Hong Kong Society of Behavioral Health, member of China Social Security Association and Honorary Research Fellow of Institute of Public Policy, South China University of Technology.

Publications: He has a total of seven academic papers and five of them were health research produced during the past two-year doctoral degree’s training in U of T.

News coverage: With 2-year research experience in analyzing the large-scale data of CLSA, he has been responsible for conducting advanced statistical analyses, populating quantitative results, and engaging with press releases in translating our empirical research findings. For example, he led a paper published in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, which received substantial media attention, including an exclusive live interview by CTV News Channel to share his research on depression among older refugees (January 24, 2020).