Vivian Lin joined the LKS Faculty of Medicine as Executive Associate Dean in March 2019.  She is concurrently Professor of Public Health Practice.  She has more than 40 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. Vivian was Chair of Public Health from 2000-2013 at La Trobe University in Melbourne before serving the WHO as Director of Health Systems in the Western Pacific Regional Office for 2013-2018, where she led on the global priorities of universal health coverage and sustainable development goals, cross-cutting priority issues of antimicrobial resistance, ageing, and gender-based violence, and on health system development issues including health financing, health law and ethics, health workforce, traditional medicines, service delivery, and health information systems. Vivian has also worked at senior executive level in health policy in several Australian jurisdictions, including as Executive Officer of the National Public Health Partnership. She has also consulted widely for the World Bank, UK Department for International Development, Australian Agency for International Development, World Health Organization, and various Australian governments at state and federal levels.  Vivian was Vice President for Scientific Affairs for the International Union for Health Promotion and Education from 2007-2013. She is presently involved on two Lancet Commissions – on gender and global health and on COVID-19. Vivian earned her BA from Yale University and MPH and DrPH from UC Berkeley.