Dr. Seong-gee Um is a Researcher at Wellesley Institute. Her main research interests lie in the areas of health equity, diversity, and ageing. She has led various research projects on seniors’ health, income security, access barriers to home and community care and long-term care for immigrant seniors, and family caregivers’ issues. Her recent publications include: “The Cost of Waiting for Long-Term Care”, “International Review of Seniors Strategies that Support Ethno-cultural and Linguistic Diversity”, and “Senior’s Health in the GTA: How Immigration, Language, and Racialization Impact Seniors’ Health,” published by Wellesley Institute. She is a co-author of States and Markets: Sociology of Public Policy in Canada, published by Oxford University Press. She received her Ph.D. from the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Governance at Université de Montréal.