Dr Jialing Lin

Jialing is a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Future Health Systems (ICFHS), University of New South Wales (UNSW). She is a mixed-methods researcher with experience in implementation science, focusing on generating evidence to improve healthcare service delivery and health outcomes. Her work integrates quantitative analyses of large-scale health data with qualitative inquiry to understand how and why interventions and policies work in real-world settings.

Jialing currently leads and contributes to research examining effective models of care and health system reform. This includes synthesising evidence on the integration of digital health application data into electronic medical record systems to support care delivery and improve patient outcomes, evaluating the effectiveness of multidisciplinary care models, and exploring how primary care reforms are understood, implemented, and experienced across stakeholders. Her research aims to bridge evidence and practice by informing scalable, context-sensitive health system improvements.

Her research interests include healthcare service utilisation and outcomes, primary care and preventive care optimisation, cardiometabolic health, multimorbidity, mental health, and health systems.

Prior to joining ICFHS, Jialing spent over five years at the School of Population Health at UNSW as a PhD candidate and postdoctoral researcher. During this time, she conducted a range of studies on healthcare utilisation in primary care and community settings, and the impact of policy on service use and outcomes. She has extensive experience working with population-level data, including claims data, electronic medical records, and survey data, and has contributed to vaccine and pharmaceutical utilisation and outcomes research.

Jialing also has experience in primary data collection and study design, including survey development and field-based data collection. Her earlier work includes molecular and environmental epidemiology studies investigating antibiotic-resistant bacterial colonisation among high-risk populations, and the interaction between individual, clinical, and environmental risk factors.

Jialing was trained as a public health practitioner overseas and has professional experience across public health sectors and government organisations in both Australia and China.