205: Equity Driven Career Coaching with Sally Yue Lin, MPH

Interview with Sally Yue Lin, MPH

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Highlights from this episode:

Her advice to work before pursuing higher education to earn money and gain clarity on your career path before jumping in.
How she got to and does work in the intersection of public health, policy, harm reduction, and policing for the BC Public Service
Why she advocates for pay equity and salary transparency by sharing her salary journey openly on her LinkedIn profile
How she supports Black, indigenous, people of color and people in equity-deserving groups with career coaching as means to drive forward health equity

Episode 205 of Public Health Careers

Sally Yue Lin, MPH is a self-employed Career Coach and Consultant. She also works as a Senior Manager with the Policing and Security Branch in the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General with the BC Public Service.

She is someone who has over a decade of experience in public health and public safety policy. She is passionate about creating positive social change through evidence-based and equity-driven practices.

She conferred a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Anthropology at McGill University. Sally’s professional experience began with an internship at the Association for India’s Development, where she worked on a dietary survey project with mothers in rural villages in Tamil Nadu. She also interned at the IInstitute for Health and Social Policy at McGil focusing on a health economics project.

After completing her undergraduste studies, Sally worked as a Program Coordinator at The University of British Columbia, where she coordinated a medical elective for family medicine residents and assisted with community-based participatory research programs.

While pursuing her Master’s of Public Health at The University of British Columbia, she served as a Student Public Health Officer at the Public Health Agency of Canada of Canada and held various roles at UBC, including Program Coordinator, Peer Tutor, and Graduate Teaching Assistant.

Post-graduation, Sally became a self-employed Public Health Consultant and later held multiple positions at the University of Victoria, starting as a Program Manager and advancing to Administrative Coordinator and Health Research Officer.

She then joined BC Public Service as a Policy Analyst in the Population and Public Health Branch, where she received several promotions: Director of Policy at the Gender Equity Office, Senior Policy Analyst in the Policing and Public Safety Modernization Unit, Manager of Policy and Legislation, and most recently, Senior Manager.