Xinjie is the Senior Director, Health Workforce Analytics at British Columbia Ministry of Health and an Adjunt Professor at the University of Alberta. She has a PhD in Psychology and an MBA from the University of Alberta. Xinjie’s research relates to child well-being with a strong background in policy-relevant research using administrative data. In 2007, Xinjie was appointed as the inaugural Director of the Child and Youth Data Laboratory (CYDL), a cutting-edge initiative conducted in partnership with the Government of Alberta.