Dr. Samuel F. Law is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. He received his medical training at McGill University; residency in psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Canada; fellowship in public psychiatry at Columbia University; and a master's in public health at Harvard University, USA. He is the lead in the China Project at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, and a board member of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists. His clinical and research work focuses on areas of community mental health and health systems, with associated interests in cross-cultural psychiatry, global mental health, and medical–legal–ethical concerns related to psychiatry.