Sum Yi Mikayla Wong is a final-year Sociology student at York University and holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Hong Kong. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of public policy, sociology, and global health. As a Fellow at the Global Strategy Lab for the academic year, Mikayla supports ongoing work in global legal epidemiology by assessing the gendered impacts of tobacco control interventions.
Driven by a commitment to advancing social equity through research, Mikayla actively seeks to expand her transdisciplinary approach to global health challenges. Her leadership and research experience spans several impact-driven initiatives: she championed diverse student engagement on York University’s Student Working Group on Quality Assurance, collected baseline health and digital literacy data for underprivileged seniors with the University of Hong Kong’s Generations Connect project, and documented demographic leadership trends for Chinese Canadian representation with the Chinese Professionals Association of Canada.