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School of Public HealthProfessor Vivian LinContact DetailsEmail: v.lin@latrobe.edu.au QualificationsDrPH, University of California, Berkeley (focus: occupational health, epidemiology, health policy), MPH, University of California, Berkeley (focus: health planning and administration), BA, Yale University (majors: biology and political science). InterestsVivian Lin is the Chair of Public Health. Since arriving in Australia in 1982, she has worked in NSW Health, Victorian Health Department and its successor, National Occupational Health and Safety Commission and Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services. During this time, she has had responsibility for policy, planning, and program development across a wide range of health issues, including health promotion, ethnic health, Aboriginal health, aged care, health technology, pharmaceuticals, intergovernmental relations, regional planning, and health export. From 1997-2000, she was Executive Officer for the National Public Health Partnership. Always remaining active in the community sector, Professor Lin has been the honorary policy convenor for the Public Health Association and has served on the Board of Management for Working Women's Health, the Public Health Committee of the Australian Medical Association and the Board of the Chinese Health Foundation of Australia. She is currently the Vice President for Scientific Affairs for the International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE). Professor Lin has an active international profile in the Asia Pacific Region. She consults for the World Bank, the UK Department for International Development and the World Health Organzation, particularly in relation to health promotion and health system development. She served on the Medicine and Public Health Panel for the Performance-based Research Funding scheme of the New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission in 2003 and 2006. Professor Lin was a member of the Dairy Food Safety Board of Victoria from 2000-2003 and has served as President of the Chinese Medicine Registration Board of Victoria since 2000. She is a member of the Australia China Council. Since 2003 she has served as a board member of the CRC on Aboriginal Health. She is currently Advisory Editor for Health Policy for Social Science and Medicine and a member of the editorial board of Health Education Research, Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, Globalization and Health, and Australian Journal of Primary Health. PublicationsBooks:Lin V, Smith J, & Fawkes S, with Robinson P, & Chaplin S, (2007). Public Health Practice in Australia: The organised effort. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. [www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=283419] Rossboth D, Gay J, & Lin V, (2007). Einfuhrung in evidence based medicine: Wissenschaftstheorie, evidence based medicine und public health. Facultus Verlags - und Buchhandels AG, Vienna. Lin V, and Gibson B, EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTH POLICY: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2003. Eagar K, Garrett P, & Lin V, HEALTH PLANNING, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2001. [www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=287200] Lin V, HEALTH, WOMEN'S WORK AND INDUSTRIALISATION: SEMICONDUCTOR WORKERS IN SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA, Garland Publishing, New York, 1991. Selected Publications:Lin V, Watson R, Oldenburg B (2009), 'The Future of public health; the importance of workforce', Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, 6:4 available online Lin V, McCabe P, Bensoussan A, Myers S, et al (2009), ' The practice and regulatory requirements of naturopathy and western herbal medicine in Australia', Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, Vol2, pp21-33, available online Lin V, Fawkes S and Hughs A (2008) A vision for prevention in Australia: Discussion paper. Australian Institute of Health Policy Studies (AIHPS). [A copy of the paper can be downloaded from http://healthpolicystudies.org.au/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,88/Itemid,145/ Lin, V., & Canaway, R. (2008). Regulating complementary and alternative medicine practitioners. In S. Barraclough & H. Gardner (Eds.), Analysing Australian health policy: A problem oriented approach. Sydney: Elsevier. Xue CC, Zhou W, Zhang AL, Greenwood K, Da Costa C, Radloff A and Lin, Vivian. (2008). Desired Chinese medicine practitioner capabilities and professional development needs: a survey of registered practitioners in Victoria, Australia. BMC Health Services Research. 8:105. doi:10.1186/1472-6963-8-27. Charlie CL Xue, Anthony L Zhang, Vivian Lin, Ray Myers, Barbara Polus and David F Story (2008). BMC Public Health. Acupuncture, chiropractic and osteopathy use in Australia : a national population survey. BMC Public Health 2008, 8:105. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-105 Lin, V. (2007). Gender and public health practice. International Journal of Public Health, 52, 1-2. Xue, C. C. L., Zhang, A. L., Lin, V., Da Costa, C., & Story, D. F. (2007). Complementary and alternative medicine use in Australia: A national population-based survey. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 13(6), 643-650. Zhang, AL, Xue, CCL, Lin, Vivian, Story, DF (2007) Complementary and alternative medicine use by older Australians. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1114 (1), 204–215. Guo X H, Tian X Y, Pan Y S, Yang X H, Wu S Y, Wang W, & Lin V, (2007) Managerial attitudes on the development of health promoting hospitals in Beijing. Health Promotion International Advance Access, doi:10.1093/heapro/dam010. Lin V & Canaway R, (2007) Health promotion applications at the workplace. In WO Phoon & R Parekh (Eds.), Occupational and environmental Health: A Practical Manual. Mumbai: Bhalani Publishing House. Bagley P, Lin V, Sainsbury P, Wise M, Keating T, & Roger K, (2007) In what ways does the mandatory nature of Victoria's municipal public health planning framework impacat on the planning process and outcomes? Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, 4(4), doi:10.1186/1743-8462-1184-1184. Choi B C K, Frank J, Mindell J S, Orlova A, Lin V, et al. (2007) Vision for a global registry of anticipated public health studies (GRAPHS). American Journal of Public Health, 97(S1), S82-S87. Burris S, Hancock T, Lin V, & Herzog A (2007) Emerging Strategies for Healthy Urban Governance. Journal of Urban Health, 84(Supplement 1, May), 154-163. Lin V, Gruszin S, Ellickson C, Glover J, Silburn K, & Wilson G, (2006) Comparative evaluation of indicators for gender equity and health. International Journal of Public Health, 51 (supplement). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-006-6050-1] Lin V, L'Orange H, & Silburn K (2006) What are gender-sensitive indicators? International Journal of Public Health, 51 (supplement). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-006-6049-7] Lin V (2006) Chinese medicine, naturopathy, and western herbal medicine: Issues in health workforce regulation. In M. Cohen (Ed.), Holistic healthcare perspectives. Melbourne: AIMA. Lin V, L'Orange H, and Silburn K. (2006). Using gender-sensitive health indicators to help achieve equity and equality in mainstream policy development and programme delivery", Development Bulletin, 71, 49-54. Lin V, & Fawkes S (2006) Evaluation of PROLEAD (WHO Health Promotional Leadership Development Program). Kobe, Japan: WHO Kobe Centre. Lin V, & Gillick D (2006) Is registration of Chinese medicine protecting public health and safety? Health Issues, 88(Spring), 20-24. Liu CJ, Legge D, Pei L, Lin V (2006). Developing community health services: revitalizing urban primary health care. Chinese General Practice 9(13): 1047-1049 Oberoi S S, & Lin V (2006) Brain drain of doctors from southern Africa: Brain gain for Australia. Australian Health Review, 30(1), 25-33. Walker R, Robinson P, Tebbutt J, Lin V, & Bisset P (2006) Emergency management risk communication. Melbourne: Department of Human Services. Xue C, Zhang L, Lin V, & Storey D (2006) The use of complementary and alternative medicine in Australia. Health Issues, 88(Spring). Lin V, Fawkes S, (2005) "National health promotion capacity mapping in the Western Pacific Region", Manila, World Health Organisation (Western Pacific Region Office) (WHO(WPRO)) Lin V, Fawkes S, (2005) "PROLEAD: Health promotion leadership development in the Western Pacific Region", Health Promotion Journal of Australia, Vol 16, Issue 3, 176-178 Lin V, P Robinson, (2005) Australian public health policy in 2003-2004. Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2 (7): http://www.anzhealthpolicy.com/content/2/1/7. Lin V, & Fawkes S (2005) Achieving effectiveness in health promotion programs: Evidence, infrastructure and action. In C. J. Browning & S. A. Thomas (Eds.), Behavioural change: An evidence-based handbook for social and public health (pp. 17-43). Edinburgh: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone. Hubbard C, Tamber P, Lin V, Furler L, Duckett S J, (2005) "Editorial: The implications of open access publishing for the medical community", Evidence-Based Healthcare & Public Health, 9, 371-373 Choi B C K, Pang T, Lin V, Puska P, Sherman G, Goddard M, Ackland M J, Sainsbury P, Stachenko S, Morrison H, Clottey C (2005) Can scientists and policy-makers work together? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 59: 632-637. Lin V, L'Orange H, and Silburn K (2005) Developing Gender-Sensitive Indicators: Relevance And Practices. Bureau for Women's Health and Gender Analysis, Health Canada, Ottawa. Liu C J, Legge D, Likun K P, Lin V (2005) Revitalizing Primary Health Care in Urban China. Proceedings of International Conference on Family Medicine, Beijing, China, October. 27-30 (English) 19-20 (Chinese). Lin V, (2004), “From Public Health Research to Health Promotion Policy: On the 10 Major Contradictions”, Social and Preventive Medicine, 49(3), 179-184. Lin V, (2004), “Women workers and health: Semiconductor industry in Singapore and Malaysia” in Kaur A (Ed.), WOMEN WORKERS IN INDUSTRIALISING ASIA. COSTED, NOT VALUED (pp. 173-194), Palgrave MacMillan, Hampshire Fawkes S, Lin V, (2003), “Health Promotion Leadership Development: Program Model For Western Pacific Region”, A working paper prepared for WHO (WPRO), October 2003. Click here to download a copy of the paper. Lin V, Gruszin S, Ellickson C, Glover J, Silburn K, Wilson G, & Poljski C (2003), “Comparative Evaluation Of Indicators For Gender Equity And Health”, Prepared for WHO Kobe Centre, March 2003. Click here to download a copy of the report. Davis P, Lin V, (2003), "Public Health in Australasia", in R. Beaglehole (Ed), GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH. Oxford University Press, Melbourne Lee L, Lin V, Wang R, Zhao H, (2003), "Public Health in China", in R. Beaglehole (Ed), GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH. Oxford University Press, Melbourne Liamputtong P, Lin V, Bagley P, (2003) "Ethnic Communities and Health Policy" in Liamputtong P and Gardner H, HEALTH, SOCIAL POLICY AND COMMUNITIES, Oxford University Press, Melbourne Lin V, (2003), “Competing rationalities: Evidence-based health policy?”, in Lin V and Gibson B (Eds.), EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTH POLICY: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES, pp 3-17, Oxford University Press, Melbourne Lin V, (2003), “Improving the Research and Policy Partnership: An Agenda for Research Transfer and Governance”, in Lin V and Gibson B (Eds.), EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTH POLICY: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES, pp 285-297, Oxford University Press, Melbourne Lin V, (2003), “Partnerships, Strategies, and Alliances for Global Surveillance”, in McQueen D and Puska P (Eds.), GLOBAL BEHAVIOURAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE, pp 23-33, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York Lin V, (2002), "Structural Change and Cultural Transformation: Reflections on the National Public Health Partnership", in Gardner H (Ed), HEALTH POLICY IN AUSTRALIA, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press Hsu-Hage B, Tang KC, Li R, Lin V, Chow T, Thien F, (2001), "A Qualitative Investigation into the Use of Health Services Amongst Melbourne Chinese", Australian Journal of Primary Health, 7(3), 2001 Lin V, King C, (2000), “Intergovernmental Reforms in Public Health”, in Bloom A (Ed), HEALTH REFORM IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, Oxford University Press Lin V, (2000) “Can programs meet people's lives?”, Australian Journal of Primary Health Interchange, 6, pp 3-4 Lin V, (2000), "Reforming the Reforms: Strategies for Health and Welfare System Development", in Women and Health: Better Health and Welfare Systems: Women's Perspectives, Proceedings of a WHO Kobe Centre International Meeting, World Health Organisation Centre for Health Development, Kobe Lin V, Duckett S J, (1996), “Health System Reform in Victoria: Casemix and Beyond”, in Gardner, H. (Ed), HEALTH POLICY IN AUSTRALIA, Oxford University Press Lawson J, Lin V, (1994), “Health Status Differential in People's Republic of China”, American Journal of Public Health, May 1994
ResearchInternational
Health Policy in East/South-East Asia and Western Pacific Region
Patient at the Center: Re-orienting Healthcare Practice in the 21st Century People at the Centre of Health Care (WHO publication based on a report by Professor Vivian Lin, Sally Fawkes & Carolyn Poljski, with research input from Sophie Hill and the Cochrane Review Group) World Health Organisation Advocacy Guide for Non-Communicable Diseases Indicators for Gender Equity and Health. (Health Canada)
Health Systems and Organisation Developing New Methods for Building Health Policy Capacity in Australia The Australian Institute of Health Policy Studies (AIHPS) Emergency Management Risk Communication Project Violence Prevention in Local Communities Community-Campus Partnership for Violence Prevention Review of Complementary Healthcare
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