CUHK Employment

• Assistant Dean (External Affairs), Faculty of Medicine
• Professor, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care

• Professor (by Courtesy), Accident and Emergency Unit

• Director, Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response

• Director, CUHK Centre for Global Health

• Deputy Director, CUHK Jockey Club Multi-Cancer Prevention Programme

• Fellow (Urban Environment and Public Health), Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability

• Fellow, Morningside College

Expertise

• Public Health
• Global Health
• Disaster and Humanitarian Medicine (Health-EDRM)
• Climate Change and Planetary Health
• Health Needs, Policy and Programme Evaluation
• Humanitarian Medicine
• Health Systems of Belt and Road Countries

Education & Qualifications

MBBS (HK), BSc in Biomedical Engineering (Johns Hopkins), SM PIH (Harvard), MD (CUHK), DFM (HKCFP), FFPH, FHKAM (Community Medicine), FHKCCM

Research Interests

• Climate change and planetary health
• Health and environmental co-benefits
• Disaster and humanitarian medicine
• Global and planetary health
• Violence and injury epidemiology
• Research methodology
• Healthy settings 
• Health needs and programme impact evaluation 
• Evidence-based medical and public health interventions in resource deficit settings

Additional Information

Award & Honour

• Visiting Professor of Public Health Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University
• Fellow, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (FXB Center), Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University
• Honorary Professor, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong
• Second Prize, National Teaching Achievement Award (Higher Education), Ministry of Education, China, 2018
• UGC Teaching Award, University Grants Committee of Hong Kong, 2017
• University Education Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2017
• National Geographic Chinese Explorer Award, National Geographic Magazine, 2016
• Leader of the Year (Community/Public Affairs/Environment & Conservation), 2015
• Nobuo Maeda International Research Award, American Public Health Association, 2007
• Hong Kong Humanity Award, 2007
• World Medical Association’s Caring Physicians of the World Award, 2005
• Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World Award, 2005
• Hong Kong Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award, 2004

Professional Service

• Member, Strategic Advisory Committee, Hong Kong Observatory
• Member, Social Welfare Advisory Committee of the Labour and Welfare Bureau, Hong Kong SAR Government
• Member, Disaster Relief Fund Advisory Committee, Hong Kong SAR Government
• Member, Council for Sustainable Development, Hong Kong SAR Government
• Member, Council of Hong Kong Metropolitan University
• Co-chairperson, World Health Organization COVID-19 Research Roadmap Social Science working group
• Co-chairperson, World Health Organization Thematic Platform for Health Emergency & Disaster Risk Management Research Network (WHO H-EDRM Research Network)
• Member, World Meteorological Organization SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Task Team
• Member, Asia Pacific Science Technology and Academia Advisory Group of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR APSTAAG)
• Director, International Centre of Excellence in Health and Community Resilience (ICoE-CCOUC) of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR, a joint research programme of International Science Council (ISC) and United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR))

Academic Engagement in CUHK

• Mentor, MBChB Programme Global Physician-Leadership Stream (GPS)
• Course Coordinator (2013-2022), Public Health Training Support Services for Department of Health, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region