Sophia Lin

Biographic Data

ID7748228
NAMESophia Lin
GIVEN NAMESSophia
FAMILY NAMELin
SIGNATURELIN S
AFFILIATIONSUNSW Sydney
ORCID0000-0002-8784-6775
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • What is public health advocacy? Australasian practitioner perspectives on defining the field and identifying effective practice and required competencies

    Open AccessAlexandra Bhatti, Sophia Lin et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2026

    Public health advocacy is a core function of public health practice, yet it remains underexamined, with limited consensus on its definition, effective strategies, and required competencies. This study explored public health advocacy practice among Australasian advocates, examining how advocacy is defined, which strategies are perceived as effective, and the competencies required for practice. Public health advocates completed an online survey bet…

  • Understanding sustainable diets in older Vietnamese migrant communities

    Open AccessSophia Lin, Minh Cuong Duong et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2026

    Introduction Sustainable diets encompass environmental, nutritional, cultural and economic dimensions and are central to planetary and human health. However, little is known about how older migrant communities understand and engage in sustainable diets. Vietnamese migrants represent a large and aging population in Australia, yet the sociocultural and structural factors shaping their engagement with sustainable diets remain underexplored. This stu…

  • Learnings from co-production of an evaluation instrument in an Australian sport for positive youth development program

    Open AccessLaura Foley, Sophia Lin et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Leisure Research2026

  • Quantifying low English literacy in Australian Aboriginal communities

    Open AccessSophia Lin, Frances Williamson et al.ARTICLEThe Australian Educational…2021

  • The Association between Post-Migration Nutrition and Lifestyle Transition and the Risk of Developing Chronic Diseases among Sub-Saharan African Migrants

    Open AccessBlessing Akombi-Inyang, Md Nazmul Huda et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Sub-Saharan African (SSA) migrants face nutrition and lifestyle changes upon arrival in a host country. The shift in diet and lifestyle reflects post-migration acculturation and could predispose migrants to nutrition- and lifestyle- related chronic diseases. A mixed-methods systematic review of published studies and the grey literature on post-migration nutrition and lifestyle transition among SSA migrants will be undertaken. Studies published in…

  • Perceptions of key informants on the provision of cervical cancer prevention and control programme in Uganda

    Open AccessJames Henry Obol, Reema Harrison et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    The key informants perceive that the lack of a cervical cancer policy in Uganda is hindering cervical cancer prevention and control programmes. Therefore, the Ministry of Health and stakeholders need to work together in coming up with an effective policy framework that will accelerate efforts towards cervical cancer prevention and control in Uganda

  • Continued increases in blood pressure over two decades in Samoa (1991–2013); around one-third of the increase explained by rising obesity levels

    Open AccessChristine Linhart, Take Naseri et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Significant increases have occurred in SBP/DBP and hypertension prevalence in both sexes in Samoa during 1991-2013, which would contribute significantly to premature mortality from cardiovascular disease. Obesity accounts for around one-third of the rising trend in blood pressure in the Samoan population. Strengthening of population control of hypertension through reduction in obesity and salt intake, and case detection and treatment through prim…

  • Overview of trends in cardiovascular and diabetes risk factors in Fiji

    Open AccessRichard Taylor, Sophia Lin et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2018

    CONTEXT: Fiji has undergone an epidemiological transition, characterised by declining infectious disease and childhood mortality, that has been offset by rising cardiovascular disease mortality. Other Pacific Island states are in a comparable situation. OBJECTIVE: With a focus on Fiji, this study reviews and contextualises research performed by the authors and others that examines cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and their …

  • Tobacco smoking trends in Samoa over four decades

    Open AccessChristine Linhart, Take Naseri et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2017

    BACKGROUND: The island country of Samoa (population 188,000 in 2011) forms part of Polynesia in the South Pacific. Over the past several decades Samoa has experienced exceptional modernization and globalization of many sectors of society, with noncommunicable diseases (NCD) now the leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The evolution of risk factor prevalence underpinning the increase in NCDs, however, has not been well described, including to…

  • Measuring inequalities in the distribution of the Fiji Health Workforce

    Open AccessVirginia Wiseman, Mylene Lagarde et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2017

    While populations with lower mortality tend to have a slightly greater share of health workers, the overall distribution of health workers on the basis of need is more equitable in Fiji than for many other LMICs. The overall shortage of health workers could be addressed by creating new cadres of health workers; employing increasing numbers of foreign doctors, including specialists; and increasing funding for health worker training, as already dem…