Sophie graduated from Shanghai University of International Business ad Economics with a bachelor’s degree after which she worked as a department manager in a state-owned import/export company for a couple of years.

Sophie moved to Canada with her family in 2002 and soon afterwards she started a new career path through further study at the University of Calgary and the University of Waterloo where she obtained a master’s degree in public health.

Sophie has been working for Alberta Health Services in various positions including health promotion, communicable disease control and outbreak management under the public health division and clinical risk / medical device safety management on the provincial CPSM team.