Lincoln Lau, University of Toronto

Research

Country Adaptation Covid-19 Guidelines And Training Modules Health Care Workers Health System Integrated Preparedness Plan Low And Middle Income Countries Public Health Response

Latest papers

Amplifying Community Health Worker Voices to Examine the Implementation and Scaling of a Community Health Program: A Qualitative Study in the Philippines.
Health services insights · 2025 · senior author
Sociodemographic factors associated with concurrent stunting and wasting among children experiencing extreme poverty in the Philippines: A cross-sectional study.
Nutrition and health · 2025
Vaccine equity implementation: exploring factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine delivery in the Philippines from an equity lens.
BMC public health · 2024

All 6 publications

Latest funding

Developing a tool kit to build vaccine confidence and ensure equitable COVID-19 vaccination implementation strategies in low-and-middle income countries: a multi-stakeholder implementation science and co-development study
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$199,808
Developing integrated guidelines for health care workers in hospital and primary healthcare facilities in response to Covid-19 pandemic in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)
CIHR · 2020 · Principal investigator

All 2 grants and awards

6 publications.

01

Amplifying Community Health Worker Voices to Examine the Implementation and Scaling of a Community Health Program: A Qualitative Study in the Philippines.

Dodd W, Brubacher LJ, Bustos M, Kelly Mijares M, Lim-Mar K, Lau L

Health services insights2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/11786329251352658 PMID: 40599892

02

Sociodemographic factors associated with concurrent stunting and wasting among children experiencing extreme poverty in the Philippines: A cross-sectional study.

Bustos M, Lau L, Manguerra H, Dodd W

Nutrition and health2025

DOI: 10.1177/02601060231203422 PMID: 37753712

03

Vaccine equity implementation: exploring factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine delivery in the Philippines from an equity lens.

Zhao J, Wu S, Rafal RA, Manguerra H, Dong Q, Huang H, Lau L, Wei X

BMC public health2024

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-024-20578-7 PMID: 39501210

04

Facilitators and barriers to implementing complex community-based interventions for addressing acute malnutrition in low- and lower-middle income countries: A scoping review.

Beggs B, Bustos M, Brubacher LJ, Little M, Lau L, Dodd W

Nutrition and health2024

DOI: 10.1177/02601060241253327 PMID: 38767155

05

What can implementation science offer civil society in their efforts to drive rights-based health reform?

Uberoi D, Ojo T, Sriharan A, Lau L

Global health research and policy2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s41256-023-00284-4 PMID: 36650592

06

The Presence of Cough and Tuberculosis: Active Case Finding Outcomes in the Philippines.

Lee S, Lau L, Lim K, Ferma J, Dodd W, Cole D

Tuberculosis research and treatment2019

DOI: 10.1155/2019/4578329 PMID: 31531239

Developing a tool kit to build vaccine confidence and ensure equitable COVID-19 vaccination implementation strategies in low-and-middle income countries: a multi-stakeholder implementation science and co-development study

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Operating Grant: COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence

Principal investigators: Wei, Xiaolin; Aslanyan, Garry

Keywords: Covid-19 Vaccination; Global Health; Health Equity; Health Policy; Implementation Science; Intervention; Low And Middle Income Countries; Vaccine Confidence

$199,808

Developing integrated guidelines for health care workers in hospital and primary healthcare facilities in response to Covid-19 pandemic in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)

Principal investigatorCIHR2020Operating Grant: COVID-19 - Public health response and its impact

Principal investigators: Wei, Xiaolin; Aslanyan, Garry; Lau, Lincoln; Samaraweera, Sudath

Keywords: Country Adaptation; Covid-19; Guidelines And Training Modules; Health Care Workers; Health System; Integrated Preparedness Plan; Low And Middle Income Countries; Public Health Response; Sri Lanka; The Philippines

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

Frequent collaborators

Clinical Public Health Division
School of Public Health Sciences
Public Health
Institute of Health Policy

Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Warren Dodd

School of Public Health Sciences

4 shared papers, latest 2025

Lincoln Lau

School of Public Health Sciences

3 shared papers, latest 2025

Junqiang Zhao

Clinical Public Health Division

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Matthew Little

Public Health

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Xiaolin Wei

Institute of Health Policy

1 shared papers, latest 2024

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Country Adaptation Dear Professor Lau, 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 "Amplifying Community Health Worker Voices to Examine the Implementation and Scaling of a Community Health Program: A Qualitative Study in the Philippines." (2025), 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 "Developing integrated guidelines for health care workers in hospital and primary healthcare facilities in response to Covid-19 pandemic in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)" (2020), 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]