Professor Vivian Lin is Executive Associate Dean at Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong.  She has more than 30 years of experience in public health, with a variety of leading roles in policy and programme development, health services planning, research and teaching, and senior administration in complex organizations. She was Chair of Public Health at La Trobe University in Melbourne before serving the WHO as Director of Health Systems in the Western Pacific Regional Office, where she led on universal health coverage, sustainable development goals, antimicrobial resistance, ageing, and gender-based violence. She is the author of several leading textbooks in Australia on health policy and planning, as well as on China. She has served on multiple editorial boards for leading journals, including as health policy editor for Social Science and Medicine. Most recently, she was a member of the International Panel on Social Progress and chaired its health cross-cutting group. Vivian has worked at senior levels in health policy in several Australian jurisdictions. She has also consulted widely for the World Bank, UK Department for International Development, Australian Agency for International Development, as well as served on multiple academic, government and community boards in relation to health promotion, public health education and research, complementary health workforce regulation, women’s health, Chinese community and China relations. Vivian earned her BA from Yale University and MPH and DrPH from UC Berkeley.