Dr. Lu Wang is Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario. Her research areas include: immigrant health and healthcare; transnational healthcare practice; COVID-19, spatial mobility and risk perception; ageing; access to care among older immigrants; and ethnic retailing. Her methodological expertise includes Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis, statistical modeling, and mixed-method approaches combining qualitative and spatial-quantitative methods. Dr. Wang’s community-based research has been primarily funded by SSHRC Insight Grant (PI), CIHR Operating Grant / COVID-19 Rapid Response (PI), CIHR Planning and Dissemination Grant (PI), and the RBC Immigrant, Diversity and Inclusion Project (PI). She has published widely in various leading journals such as Social Science and Medicine, Canadian Journal of Public Health, Canadian Journal on Aging, The Professional Geographer, Papers in Applied Geography, Health and Place, International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI), Applied Geography, Environment and Planning A, GeoJournal, Immigrant and Minority Health, Primary Health Care Research, and Journal of International Migration and Integration, and contributed chapters to several edited books including A Research Agenda for Migration and Health (Elgar), Immigrant Experiences in North America (Canadian Scholars’ Press), Immigrants in US and Canadian Cities (Oxford), and Wal-Mart World: The World's Biggest Corporation in the Global Economy (Routledge)