Xiaolin is a medical doctor, public health specialist, professor and the Dalla Lana Chair in Global Health Policy in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), University of Toronto. He was elected as a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2022. Xiaolin is the faculty co-lead for implementation science. He has served as a board member and has served as the Secretary General and Vice President of the International Union of Lung Disease from 2012 to 2020. He holds adjunct/visiting professorship with the Johns Hopkins University, USA, the University of St. Andrews, and University of Leeds, UK, Fudan University and Peking University, China. He regularly provides consultancy to the World Health Organization regarding tuberculosis, antimicrobial resistance and implementation science/ clinical trials design.
Research Interests
- Implementation Science
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Tuberculosis
- Diabetes and hypertension
- Primary care
- Global health
- One health