Lu Wang

Toronto Metropolitan University

EducationPhD, York University

Areas of ExpertiseHealth geography; marketing/business geography; economic geography; immigration and settlement studies; access to health; mixed-method approaches

Lu Wang is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at TMU. Her research areas include: neighbourhood and aging, immigrant health and healthcare; transnational healthcare practice; COVID-19 and spatial mobility; and ethnic retailing. Her methodological expertise includes Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis, mapping, statistical modeling, and mixed-method approaches combining qualitative and spatial-quantitative methods. Her research is primarily community-based, funded by sources such as SSHRC Insight (PI), CIHR COVID-19 Rapid Response (PI), CIHR Planning and Dissemination Grant (PI), and the RBC IDI Project (PI).

Recent Publications

Wang, L., Yu, J., Chen, D., & Yang, L. (2021). Relationships among COVID-19 Prevention Practices, Risk Perception and Individual Characteristics: A Temporal Analysis. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(20), 10901. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010901 (external link)

Forsyth, J., Wang, L., & Thomas-Bachli, A. (2023). COVID-19 case rates, spatial mobility, and neighbourhood socioeconomic characteristics in Toronto: a spatial–temporal analysis. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 114(5), 806-822. https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-023-00791-4 (external link) .

Lee, J., Wang, L., Hernandez, T., & Daniel, C. (2024). Ethnic Grocery Retailing and Health: A Case Study of Chinese and South Asian Immigrants in Toronto. Papers in Applied Geography, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2024.2371785 (external link)