Dr Xiaoping Lin is a Research Fellow at the Registry Science and Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. She has more than ten years’ research experience and has expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methods. Her main research areas are mental health, dementia, and health service development and evaluation. Being an immigrant herself, Xiaoping has a particular interest in research with people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds and has extensive links with the CALD community in Melbourne. Over the years, she has helped secure more than $500,000.00 in research funding, including a recent grant from the Alzheimer’s Australia Dementia Research Foundation as the chief investigator. Xiaoping has an emerging track record of publications in peer-reviewed journals and is on the Editorial Board of Clinical Gerontologist.