PPOL Divisional Seminar - From Evidence to Policy: What Evidence Matters for Health Policy? - Prof. Vivian Kwang-wen Lin
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The rise of Evidence-based Medicine movement in the 1990s created a discourse around how to improve knowledge translation into health policy and practice, with much of the explanation focused around the two worlds of researchers and policy-makers. Strategies for increasing the update of research into policy have also been suggested in the literature. This talk will consider what evidence counts in policy-making, with real world examples from multiple health policy issues. As well, examples will be given on how to move the policy needle with better framing and policy dialogues.
Professor Lin is an honorary professor at University of Hong Kong, adjunct professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong and at LaTrobe University, Melbourne, and visiting professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She was Executive Associate Dean, LKS Faculty of Medicine, and Professor of Public Health Practice at the University of Hong Kong between 2019 and 2024. Prior to that, she served as Director of Health Systems for the World Health Organization in the Western Pacific Region from 2013-2018. Professor Lin co-chairs the Strategic Technical Advisory Group on Wellbeing and Health Promotion for WHO. She was inaugural Executive Officer of the Australian National Public Health Partnership (1996-2000). Professor Lin earned her BA from Yale University and MPH and DrPH from UC Berkeley.