University of Oxford

Participant(s)

Activity date	May 2024 → Jul 2024
Degree of recognition	International

Description

Prof. Lin, Shen (Lamson) was a Visiting Academic at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing at the University of Oxford (May to July 2024).

Prof. Lin holds an assistant professor of social work (tenure track) position at the City University of Hong Kong’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. degree in social work from the University of Toronto (2017 to 2022), where he received interdisciplinary training in social work, gerontology (from Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work) and population health (from Dalla Lana School of Public Health).

As a gerontologist and social epidemiologist, Prof. Lin's scholarship centers around social determinants of health (in)equity, population ageing, medical/health social work, and artificial intelligence methodologies to social sciences. Prof. Lin's research aims to advance healthy ageing via statistical and machine learning techniques to examine how social and structural determinants (e.g., race/ethnicity, migration, disadvantaged socioeconomic status/poverty) influence disparities in health care access/utilization (e.g., mental health consultations, unmet care needs, long-term care services) and health equity (e.g., multimorbidity, chronic illness, functional disability, depression) among older adults.

As of 2024 May, Prof. Lin has published 21 SCI/SSCI-indexed scholarly articles. His ten signature papers (i.e., single-authored) can be found in top-tier peer-reviewed journals across health and social sciences (Top 15% journals in respective field), including the Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences (Oxford University Press), Ageing & Society (Cambridge University Press).

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Link(s)

Other link(s)	Links https://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/people/view/555