Lu Wang, Toronto Metropolitan University

Research

Canada Healthcare Access Healthcare Use Immigrants Transnational Healthcare Practices Social, Cultural, Environmental And Population Health Access To Healthcare Services Location And Language Discordance

Latest papers

Social Belonging in Migrant Older Adults: A Concept Analysis.
ANS. Advances in nursing science · 2026
Equitable Aging Among Migrants: A Concept Analysis and Model Development for Transcultural Nursing Care.
Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society · 2025
Transnational Healthcare Practices Among Afghan, Syrian, and Ukrainian Refugee Older Adults in the Greater Toronto Area: A Study Protocol.
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025

All 44 publications

Latest funding

Transnational Healthcare Practices Among Immigrants in Canada: Nature, Scope, Drivers, and Implications
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$1,032,750
Spatial and social patterning of COVID-19 prevention and transmission in Canada: Investigating the impacts of risk perception and preventive behaviour on individual activity space
CIHR · 2020 · Nominated PI
$189,050
Examining transnational health practices and healthcare access among older immigrants in Canada
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$183,558

All 7 grants and awards

44 publications.

01

Social Belonging in Migrant Older Adults: A Concept Analysis.

Metersky K, Guruge S, Al-Hamad A, Wang L, Yasin YM, Yang L, Zhuang ZC, Catallo C, Amanzai H, Kirkwood M, Chahine M

ANS. Advances in nursing science2026

DOI: 10.1097/ans.0000000000000656 PMID: 42187301

02

Equitable Aging Among Migrants: A Concept Analysis and Model Development for Transcultural Nursing Care.

Al-Hamad A, Yasin YM, Guruge S, Metersky K, Wang L, Catallo C, Amanzai H, Zhuang ZC, Rahman R, Zhang A

Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society2025

DOI: 10.1177/10436596251359129 PMID: 40793353

03

Transnational Healthcare Practices Among Afghan, Syrian, and Ukrainian Refugee Older Adults in the Greater Toronto Area: A Study Protocol.

Guruge S, Wang L, Metersky K, Al-Hamad A, Zhuang Z, Catallo C, Amanzai H, Yang L, Yasin YM, Illesinghe V

Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2025

DOI: 10.3390/healthcare13202644 PMID: 41154322

04

A Comparison of Chinese and Korean Older Adult Immigrants' Transnational Healthcare Practices in Toronto, Canada: A Mixed-Methods Study.

Czukar L, Wang L, Guruge S, Lum J, Greenbaum M

Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2025

DOI: 10.3390/healthcare13192493 PMID: 41095579

05

Transnational Healthcare Practices Among Migrants: A Concept Analysis.

Metersky K, Guruge S, Wang L, Al-Hamad A, Yasin YM, Catallo C, Yang L, Salma J, Zhuang ZC, Chahine M, Kirkwood M, Al-Anani A

Journal of advanced nursing2025

DOI: 10.1111/jan.16693 PMID: 39722540

06

Spatial Mobility Change Among Older Chinese Immigrants During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Physical, Social, and Virtual Environmental Factors.

Yang M, Wang L, Yang L, Yu J, Chen D, Wang M, Dong H, Yan J

International journal of environmental research and public health2025

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph22030406 PMID: 40238510

07

Culture substrate stiffness impacts human myoblast contractility-dependent proliferation and nuclear envelope wrinkling.

Nguyen J, Wang L, Lei W, Hu Y, Gulati N, Chavez-Madero C, Ahn H, Ginsberg HJ, Krawetz R, Brandt M, Betz T, Gilbert PM

Journal of cell science2024

DOI: 10.1242/jcs.261666 PMID: 38345101

08

COVID-19 case rates, spatial mobility, and neighbourhood socioeconomic characteristics in Toronto: a spatial-temporal analysis.

Forsyth J, Wang L, Thomas-Bachli A

Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique2023

DOI: 10.17269/s41997-023-00791-4 PMID: 37526916

09

Solar Hydrocarbons: Single-Step, Atmospheric-Pressure Synthesis of C2 -C4 Alkanes and Alkenes from CO2.

Song R, Li Z, Guo J, Duchesne PN, Qiu C, Mao C, Jia J, Tang S, Xu YF, Zhou W, Wang L, Sun W, Yan X, Guo L, Jing D, Ozin GA

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2023

DOI: 10.1002/anie.202304470 PMID: 37137871

10

Enhancing cybersecurity situation awareness through visualization: A USB data exfiltration case study.

Chung MM, Yang YA, Wang L, Cento G, Jerath K, Taank P, Raman A, Chan JH, Chignell MH

Heliyon2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13025 PMID: 36820176

Transnational Healthcare Practices Among Immigrants in Canada: Nature, Scope, Drivers, and Implications

Principal investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Guruge, Sepali; Hung, Lillian M; Salma, Jordana M; Wang, Lu

Keywords: Canada; Healthcare Access; Healthcare Use; Immigrants; Transnational Healthcare Practices

$1,032,750

Spatial and social patterning of COVID-19 prevention and transmission in Canada: Investigating the impacts of risk perception and preventive behaviour on individual activity space

Nominated PICIHR2020Operating Grant: COVID-19 - Public health response and its impact

Principal investigators: Wang, Lu; Chen, Dongmei; Yang, Lixia

Keywords: Social, Cultural, Environmental And Population Health

$189,050

Examining transnational health practices and healthcare access among older immigrants in Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Wang, Lu

Keywords: transnational healthcare practice; access to healthcare; barrier; transnationalism; older immigrants; mixed-methods approach; spatial analysis; survey; focus groups; Toronto CMA

$183,558

Spatial and Language Discordance in Accessing Physicians among Older Immigrants in Toronto: Identifying Barriers, Facilitators and Interventions

Nominated PICIHR2016Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Wang, Lu; Guruge, Sepali

Keywords: Access To Healthcare Services; Location And Language Discordance; Older Immigrants; Physician Location

$19,921

Aging well: partnering to optimize social network and support for older immigrants in Ontario

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Guruge, Sepali

Keywords: older immigrants; informal and formal social support; access to services; network mapping; urban and less-urbanized settings; Ontario; university-community partnerships

$200,000

Immigration and settlement: precarious futures

Co-investigatorSSHRC2012Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Bauder, Harald S.

Keywords: immigration; settlement; international migration; refugees; interdisciplinary; policy; service delivery; ethnic communities

$49,170

Healthy integration : ethnicity, geography and immigrants' utilization of primary care physicians in Toronto

Principal investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Wang, Lu

Keywords: immigrants; access to health care; health geography; ethnicity; primary care physicians; spatial analysis; mixed methods

$94,375

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Canada Dear Professor Wang, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Social Belonging in Migrant Older Adults: A Concept Analysis." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Transnational Healthcare Practices Among Immigrants in Canada: Nature, Scope, Drivers, and Implications" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]

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Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Social Belonging in Migrant Older Adults: A Concept Analysis.

Equitable Aging Among Migrants: A Concept Analysis and Model Development for Transcultural Nursing Care.

Transnational Healthcare Practices Among Afghan, Syrian, and Ukrainian Refugee Older Adults in the Greater Toronto Area: A Study Protocol.

A Comparison of Chinese and Korean Older Adult Immigrants' Transnational Healthcare Practices in Toronto, Canada: A Mixed-Methods Study.

Transnational Healthcare Practices Among Migrants: A Concept Analysis.

Spatial Mobility Change Among Older Chinese Immigrants During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Physical, Social, and Virtual Environmental Factors.

Culture substrate stiffness impacts human myoblast contractility-dependent proliferation and nuclear envelope wrinkling.

COVID-19 case rates, spatial mobility, and neighbourhood socioeconomic characteristics in Toronto: a spatial-temporal analysis.

Solar Hydrocarbons: Single-Step, Atmospheric-Pressure Synthesis of C2 -C4 Alkanes and Alkenes from CO2.

Enhancing cybersecurity situation awareness through visualization: A USB data exfiltration case study.

Transnational Healthcare Practices Among Immigrants in Canada: Nature, Scope, Drivers, and Implications

Spatial and social patterning of COVID-19 prevention and transmission in Canada: Investigating the impacts of risk perception and preventive behaviour on individual activity space

Examining transnational health practices and healthcare access among older immigrants in Canada

Spatial and Language Discordance in Accessing Physicians among Older Immigrants in Toronto: Identifying Barriers, Facilitators and Interventions

Aging well: partnering to optimize social network and support for older immigrants in Ontario

Immigration and settlement: precarious futures

Healthy integration : ethnicity, geography and immigrants' utilization of primary care physicians in Toronto

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