Dr. Chiu-Yi Lin is a Research Associate in the Department of War studies at King’s College London. Prior to this she received her MSc degree in 2013 and obtained her PhD in Nursing at the University of Manchester, UK, in 2019. Her PhD thesis was entitled “Shared Decision Making in Secondary Mental Healthcare in Taiwan”. She then joined the Division of Pharmacy and Optometry and worked on various projects including “Factors which attract Chinese students to articulated degree programmes” and “Developing and testing prescribing safety indicators to prevent opioid-related harm in primary care”.

In her early career, Chiu-Yi was a registered nurse in psychiatric inpatient wards at Tri-Service General Hospital, Taiwan (a military hospital). After this, she worked as a lecturer in two college-level institutions, teaching mental healthcare and conducting literature reviews. During her career, she has worked at various research institutions, hospitals, colleges, and universities in the UK and Taiwan in the field of health service research.

Chiu-Yi is especially interested in global health and security systems, military healthcare, pain management, opioid use, shared decision making, quality of life, evidence-based practice, mental health services research, and medical education.