Professor Albert LEE (李大拔教授)

MB BS(Lond), MD(CUHK), MPH(CUHK), FRACGP(Aus), FRCP(Irel), FFPH(UK) FHKAM(FamMed), FHKCFP DCH(irel)

Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Director, Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion

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Professor Albert Lee is professor (Family Medicine), and also the Director of the Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion of the School of Public Health and Primary Care of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  He is also professor in the Department of Physical Education and Sport Science of Faculty of Education of the Chinese University of Hong Kong by courtesy of appointment.  He is currently the honorary consultant in Family Medicine of New Territories East and Kwong Wah Hospital. He established the first Master programme in Health Education and Health Promotion, and also Family Medicine in Hong Kong.
He received his medical degree from the University of London in 1984 with various awards and merit certificates.  He pursued postgraduate studies in Child Health at Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Ireland, Master of Public Health and Doctorate degree in Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  He has been awarded fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Faculty of Public Health of Royal College of Physicians of United Kingdom, Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (Family Medicine), and Hong Kong College of Family Physicians.
His clinical specialty is Family Medicine and his research area of interest is family and community health with special interests in child and adolescent health, comprehensive school health programme, health education and health promotion, .primary care management of chronic disease and medical education.
He pioneered the concept of Health Promoting Schools in Hong Kong to promote child and adolescent health and also health of the community.  The work in community health is well recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and he has been invited by WHO to become temporary advisor on many occasions on school health and health promotion, and has been commissioned by WHO Regional Office to conduct international workshops and consultancy for other Asian and Pacific countries on school health.  He has written a thematic paper for the Knowledge Network on Urban Settings of WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health on “Improving Health and Building Human Capital through an effective primary care system and Healthy Setting approach.”  He is member of Steering Committee of Alliance for Healthy Cities and Chair the Award Committee.  He is also member of Steering Committee of International School Health Network.
He has published over 140 papers in peer reviewed journals and has been invited as speakers in many international conferences, and is editor and/or editorial board member and serves as journal reviewer of numerous local and leading international journals. He has been successful in obtaining research grant over HK$90 million (US1 ~ HK$7.8). Professor Lee received the award for Chief Executive Commendation for Community Services in the 2004 Honours list of the Hong Kong SAR Government.

• Family and Community Health with special interest areas in Child and Adolescent Health, Health Education and Health Promotion, Primary Care Management of Chronic Diseases.
• Comprehensive School Health Programme, Healthy Setting
• Medical Education in Family Medicine and General Practice

Ten recent selected publications (Over 140 publications in Peer Review Journals)

Health Education and Health Promotion
 

1. Lee A., Wong MCS., Cheng F., Yuen HSK., Keung VMW., Mok JSY. Can the concept of Health Promoting Schools help to improve students' health knowledge and practices to combat the challenge of communicable diseases: Case study in Hong Kong? BMC Public Health 2008; 8:42

2. Lee A., Cheng F., St Leger L., Hong Kong Healthy School Team.  The status of Health Promoting Schools in Hong Kong and implications for further development.  Health Promotion International 2007; 22(4): 316-326..

3. Lee A., Tsang C., Siu HK., Wong WCW., Wong SYS. Knowledge, attitude & practice of management of mild-to-moderate OA pain in Hong Kong: a community doctor survey.  Aus Family Physicians 2008, September Lee A., Cheng F., Yuen H., Ho M., Lo A., Leung T., Fung Y. Achieving good standard of Health Promoting Schools: Preliminary analysis after one year implementation of Hong Kong Healthy Schools Award Scheme.  Public Health 2007; 121: 752-760.

4. Lee A., Cheng F., St Leger L.  Evaluating Health Promoting Schools in Hong Kong: The Development of a Framework.  Health Promotion International 2005; 20(2): 177-186.

5. Lee A., Fu Hua and Ji Chengyi. Health promotion activities in China from the Ottawa Charter to the Bangkok Charter: revolution to evolution. Promotion and Education 2007; XIV(4): 214-223.


Family Medicine and Primary Health Care

6. Lee A., Tsang C., Siu HK., Wong WCW., Wong SYS. Knowledge, attitude & practice of management of mild-to-moderate OA pain in Hong Kong: a community doctor survey.  Aus Family Physicians 2008, September. 

7. Wong WCW.  Wong SYS., Lee A., Goggins W. How to provide effective primary health care in fighting against SARS? The experiences of two cities.  American Journal of Infection Control 2007; 35: 50-55.

8. Lee A., Kiyu A., Milman HM., Jara J. Improving Health and Building Human Capital through an effective primary care system.  Journal of Urban Health 2007; 84(supp1): 75-85.
Child and Adolescent Health.

9. Lee A., Cheng F., Fung Y., St Leger L. Can Health Promoting Schools contribute to the better health and well being of young people: Hong Kong experience? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2006; 60:530-536.

10. Lee A., Wong WS., Fung WY., Leung P., Lam C.  Children with regular family doctors have better health behaviours and psycho-social health.  Aus Family Physician 2007; 36 (3): 180-183.

Wong WCW., Leung PWS., Tang CSK., Chen WQ., Lee A., Ling DC.  To unfold a Hidden Epidemic: Prevalence of Child Maltreatment and its Health Implications among High School Students in Southern China.  Child Abuse and Neglect 2008; In Press
 

Recent Consultancy Reports and book chapters (2006-08):

Wong WCW, Lee A., Lindsay M (Editors). Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Practical Approach, The Chinese University Press, 2008.

Lee A.  WHO Consultancy to support ProLead Team to build capacity and sustain the momentum for stronger Health Promotion policies and programmes in Laos PDR, 6-10 April, 2008.  Centre For Health Education and Health Promotion, The Chinese University of Hong Long, 2008

Lee A. Hong Kong: Health Promoting School. In Whiteman CV and Aldringer C. Case Studies in Global School Health Promotion. Springer, New York, USA, 2009.

St Leger L., Kobe LJ., Lee A., McCall D., Young I. School Health: - Achievements, Challenges and Priorities. In McQueen D., Jones C.  Global Perspective on Health Promotion Effectiveness. Springer, New York, USA., 2007.

Jones C.M., Amuyunzu-Nyamongo M., Broesskamp-Stone U., De Salazar L., Fawgett S., Hills M., Lee A., Mukhopadhay A., Ritchie J., Speller V., McQueen M.  The Global Programme on Health Promotion Effectiveness (GPHPE): A Global Process for Assessing Health Promotion Effectiveness with Regional Diversity.  In McQueen D., Jones C.  Global Perspective on Health Promotion Effectiveness. Springer, New York, USA, 2007.

Lee A., Fu H., Ji CY. Report of Health Promotion activities in China from Ottawa Charter to Bangkok Charter: Revolution to Evolution.  Commissioned by International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) and the Canadian Consortium for Health Promotion Research (CCHPE), 2007.

Tord Kjellstrom (Chair and Lead Writer).  Drafting Team: Susan Mercado, David Sattherthwaite, Gordon McGranahan, Sharon Friel and Kirsten Havemann.  Lee A as one of the Contributing writers: Our cities, our health, our future: Acting on social determinants for health equity in urban settings.  Report of the Knowledge Network on Urban Settings, WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health.  WHO Centre for Health Development, Kobe, Japan – 2007.
http://www.who.int/social_determinants/resources/knus_report_16jul07.pdf

Lee A., Kiyu A., Milman HM., Jara JDL. Improving Health and Building Human Capital through an effective primary care system and Healthy Setting approach.  Thematic paper for the Knowledge Network on Urban Setting, WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, 2006.