Professor Lamson Lin Shen joined the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at City University of Hong Kong as an assistant professor (tenure-track) of social work in 2022, right after completing his doctoral education in Canada (2017 - 2022). Professor Lin earned his PhD degree from the University of Toronto (UofT)'s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. With interdisciplinary training in social work, gerontology and population health, his scholarship centres around social determinants of health (in)equity, population ageing, and artificial intelligence methodologies to social sciences.

Scholarly Interest: As a gerontologist, Professor Lin's research aims to advance healthy ageing via statistical and machine learning techniques to examine how social and structural determinants influence disparities in health care access (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. Additionally, his scholarship investigates risk and protective factors through which the COVID-19 pandemic affects individuals' psychosocial well-being (e.g., anxiety disorders, loneliness, stigma, and vaccine hesitancy).

Research Impact: To date, Professor Lin has published 21 SCI/SSCI-indexed scholarly articles, and his ten representative papers (i.e., single-authored) can be found in top-tier peer-reviewed journals across health and social sciences, including the Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences (Oxford University Press), Ageing & Society (Cambridge University Press), Journal of Social Work, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.

(Updated as at Dec 2023)