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Professor Tze-wai WONG (黄子惠教授)
MBBS, MSc (Public Health), FAFOM, FFPH, FRCP (Glasg), FHKAM, FHKCCM.
Co-Director, Centre for Occupational & Environmental Health Studies; and
Research Professor
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| Biography |
Professor Wong Tze Wai is an environmental epidemiologist and occupational physician with experience in public health practice and research over a wide variety of topics that include infectious diseases (notably hantavirus studies, plague and SARS), environmental health (air pollution and health, dioxins and other persistent organic pollutants, and environmental noise) and occupational health (noise induced hearing loss, occupational accidents), and other health problems. Educated in the medical school of The University of Hong Kong and the National University of Singapore, Professor Wong has worked in the service and research sectors in both cities. As an industrial health officer, Professor Wong experienced the flourishing manufacturing industries and the high prevalence of compressed air illness in the construction of the mass transit railway in Hong Kong in the mid-1970s, and gained much experience in occupational health practice. As a public health practitioner in Hong Kong, he worked with Vietnamese refugees in the early 1980s and wrote a dissertation on this unique group of displaced people. He was trained in plague and other infectious diseases in the Center for Infectious Diseases, the Centers for Disease Control U.S. in the early 1980s. While working as a research fellow in the WHO Collaborating Laboratory for Hantavirus Reference and Research in Korea University Medical College, his research on the seroepidemiology of hantaviruses in Singapore led to the isolation of a new strain of Seoul-like hantavirus in rodents. His research in this area resulted in the award of the Certificate of Merit by Prof. Ho Wang Lee, Director of the laboratory and the discoverer of the Hantaan virus. Besides infectious diseases, Professor Wong was also involved in a WHO collaborative study on traffic accidents in Singapore. In The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Professor Wong was Director of Diploma programmes on occupational health sciences for over a decade. In research, besides his involvement in occupational health studies such as noise and hearing loss and occupational accidents, he is currently mostly engaged in studies on air pollution and its impact on health and persistent organic pollutants in human milk. He has conducted many consultative studies initiated by the Environmental Protection Department. Many of these studies were first reported by Professor Wong in Hong Kong, including one on air pollution and GP consultations. With his experience as a practitioner in infectious disease control, he volunteered in the investigation of SARS in the Prince of Wales Hospital during the 2003 outbreak. This led to the publication of several important papers on the transmission of this novel disease. He has published 180 papers in peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals, more than 100 conference papers or abstracts, contributed to several books and more than 30 research reports. He has served on many governmental committees on environment and infectious diseases. He served two terms as a member of the Advisory Council on the Environment and was a member of the Advisory Panel on the Review of Air Quality Objectives of the Environmental Protection Department. He is currently a member of the Scientific Committee on Disease Modeling of the Centre for Health Protection and a scientific adviser of the Hong Kong Observatory. Academically, he is Visiting Professor of the School of Public Health of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. He is currently heading a study on the Air Pollution Reporting System commissioned by the Environmental Protection Department, and another study on exposure to dioxins and other persistent organic pollutants among women in Hong Kong, commissioned by the Department of Health. His recent efforts are focused on air pollution control, and he has been a vocal advocate for the improvement of air quality in Hong Kong.
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| Teaching Modules |
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Undergraduate:
(Medicine)
- Year One: Environmental Health; Air pollution
- Year Four: Environmental Health, the Investigation of Disease Outbreaks
(Minor)
- Foundations of Public Health, Occupational and Environmental Health; Infectious Diseases
Postgraduates:
- MPH and MSc (Epi and Biostat): Environmental Health, air pollution, and investigation of disease outbreaks;
- Postgraduate students:
- On topics of air pollution, infection control and environmental health.
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| Research Interests |
Air pollution and health; environmental epidemiology, exposure assessment and health impact of air pollution control; long-term impact of air pollution on respiratory health, Infectious diseases and transmission mechanics, environmental pollution by persistent organic pollutants and dioxins
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| Selected Publications (2010 – 12) |
| Hedley AJ, Hui LL, Kypke K , Malisch R, van Leeuwen FXR, Moy G, Wong TW, Nelson EAS. Residues of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in human milk in Hong Kong. Chemosphere 2010; 79:259-265. |
| He QQ, Wong TW, Du L, Jiang ZQ, Gao Y, Qiu H, Liu WJ, Wu JG, Wong A, Yu TSI. Effects of ambient air pollution on lung function growth in Chinese schoolchildren. Respiratory Medicine 2010; 104:1512-1520. |
| Yeung WK, Tam WS, Wong TW. A Clustered Randomized Control Trial of Pocket Alcohol-based Hand Rubs Intervention in the Control of Infections in Long-term Care Facilities. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2011; 32(1): 67-76. |
| Wong TW, Wong AHS. A Review of Statutory Medical Examinations in Asian-Pacific Countries. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 2011; 54 (1):78-88. |
| He QQ, Wong TW, Du L, Jiang ZQ, Yu ITS, Qiu H, Gao Y, Liu WJ, Wu JG. Physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and obesity among Chinese children. Preventive Medicine 2011; 52(2):109-113. |
| Wang XR, Wu SY, Song QK, Yu ITS, Tse LA, Wong TW, Griffiths S. Occupational health and safety challenges in China – Focusing on township-village enterprises. Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health 2011; 66(1):3-11. |
| Wong TW, Wong AHS, Lee SC, Qiu H. Respiratory Health and Lung Function in Chinese Restaurant Kitchen Workers. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2011; 68(10):746-752. |
| He QQ, Wong TW, Du L, Jiang ZQ, Yu TS, Qiu H, Gao Y, Wong AHS, Liu WJ, Wu JG. Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Chinese Schoolchildren’s Respiratory Health: A Prospective Cohort Study. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2011;41(5):487-493. |
| Tam WWS, Wong TW, Wong AHS, Hui DSC. Effect of dust storm events on daily emergency admissions for respiratory diseases. Respirology 2012; 17:143-148. |
| Tam WWS, Wong TW, Wong AHS. Effect of dust storm events on daily emergency admissions for ischemic heart diseases. Circulation Journal 2012; 76(3):655-660. |
| Oiu H, Yu ITS, Tian L, Wamg XTse LA, Tam W, Wong TW. Effects of Coarse Particulate Matter on Emergency Hospital Admissions for Respiratory Diseases: A Time-Series Analysis in Hong Kong. Environmental Health Perspectives 2012; 120(4):572-76. |
| Wong TW, Tam WWS, Yu ITS, Lau AKH, Pang SW, Wong AHS. Developing a risk-based air quality health index. Atmospheric Environment. Published online on 11 July 2012. http://elseviereproof.tnq.co.in/authorproofs/ccc7e05393ab630c48808e5f8db685d1 ] |
| Wong TW, Wong AHS, Nelson EAS, Qiu H, Ku SYK. Levels of PCDDs, PCDFs, and Dioxin-Like PCBs in Human Milk among Hong Kong Mothers. Science of the Total Environment. Published online on 30 Aug 2012. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.07.097 |
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