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There, she led high-impact modeling work that shaped global family planning investment and strategies. In August 2025, Lin will join the University of Texas at Dallas as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Global Health Policy. Her path to these influential roles was forged at USC\u2019s interdisciplinary Population, Health, and Place and Ph.D. program.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>&#8220;My SSI Ph.D. experience definitely helped prepare me for what I\u2019m doing now. Most importantly, that\u2019s when I got introduced to Demography \u2014 a course I probably wouldn\u2019t have taken if I were in a different Ph.D. program. It completely reshaped how I thought about concepts like fertility, not just as academic topics, but as issues deeply connected to everyday life.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe USC SSI Population, Health and Place Ph.D. program didn\u2019t just offer research training \u2013 it nurtured intellectual curiosity. It led Lin to write about things she never expected \u2013 from birth to death, from violence at home to violence on the battlefield, everyday experiences viewed through the lens of a demographer and modeler.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>&#8220;The biggest takeaway from my Ph.D. is the value of being open-minded. 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