Ting-Hui Lin
Research Interests: Medical Sociology; Social Inequality; Political Sociology; Aging and the Life Course; Disability Studies
Education:
MA, Sociology, 2017, Soochow University, Taiwan
Bio: Ting-Hui Lin is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University at Buffalo. She is a medical sociologist whose research examines how social inequality, political contexts and place-based conditions shape population health. Her dissertation investigates how structural vulnerability, local health care infrastructure and partisan environments shape geographic disparities in COVID-19 vaccination rates across U.S. counties and states using multilevel and spatially referenced data. One article from this project received the 2026 Health, Health Policy and Health Services Division Graduate Student Paper Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Her earlier research examined guide dog use, mobility and autonomy among people with visual impairments in Taiwan. This work received the Outstanding Thesis Award in Disability Studies from the National Taiwan Library.
Recent Courses Taught:
- SOC 101: Introduction to Sociology
- SOC 322: Medical Sociology
Publications:
- Grol-Prokopczyk, H., Huang, R., Yu, C., Chen, Y. A., Kaur, S., Limani, M., Lin, Ting-Hui, Zajacova, A., Zimmer, Z., Cowan, P., Fillingim, R. B., Gewandter, J. S., Gilron, I., Hirsh, A. T., Macfarlane, G. J., Meghani, S. H., Patel, K. V., Poleshuck, E. L., Strain, E. C., Symons, F. J., … Turk, D. C. 2025. “Over 50 Years of Research on Social Disparities in Pain and Pain Treatment: A Scoping Review of Reviews.” Pain: 1-15.
Conference Presentations:
- Lin, Ting-Hui. 2026. “Political Determinants of Health and Public Response: Evaluating Their Impact on Social Vulnerability and Adult COVID-19 Vaccination Disparities in U.S. States and Counties.” To be presented at the Taiwanese Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2026.
- Lin, Ting-Hui. 2026. “Do County Healthcare Initiatives Moderate the Association Between Social Vulnerability and COVID-19 Vaccination Rates?” Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, August 2026.
- Lin, Ting-Hui. 2026. “Social Vulnerability and COVID-19 Vaccination Rates: A Comparative Analysis Across U.S. States and Counties.” Presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, New York, NY, August 2026.
Email: tlin53@buffalo.edu