Professor Albert LEE (李大拔教授)
MB BS (Lond.), MD (CUHK), MPH (CUHK), M.Res & Prof .Study in Ed (Bristol), FRCP (Irel), FRACGP (Aus), FFPH (UK), FHKAM (FamMed), FHKCFP, DCH (Irel)

Director, Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion; and
Professor (Clinical)


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Professor Albert Lee is Professor (Clinical) of the School of Public Health and Primary Care and also Founding 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 (CUHK) and also Professor by courtesy appointment in the Department of Physical Education and Sport Science of Faculty of Education, CUHK.  He was Head of Family Medicine Academic Discipline from 2002-07.  He holds Honorary Consultant appointment in Family Medicine of New Territories East (since 2002) and Kwong Wah Hospital (since 1999).  He is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Applied Health Science of Indiana University, USA; Griffiths University Centre for Environmental and Population Health, Australia; and Department of Rehabilitation Science, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.  He is Visiting Professor at the Centre for International Health Development Research Centre of University of Brighton, UK.

He graduated as medical doctor (MB BS) from the University of London (UCL-Middlesex) in 1984 with various awards and merit certificates.  He pursued postgraduate studies in Child Health at Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Ireland (DCH), Master of Public Health (MPH) and Higher Research Doctorate degree in Medicine (MD) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  His Professional qualifications include: Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (FRCP), Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP), Faculty of Public Health of Royal College of Physicians of United Kingdom (FFPH), Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (Family Medicine) (FHKAM-Fam Med), and Hong Kong College of Family Physicians (FHKCFP). 

His clinical specialty is Family Medicine with special interest in Public Health and Health Promotion.   His main research areas are:
- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention with particular focus on promotion of child and adolescent health through school setting linking to community and primary health care, development of health profile for different settings such as Healthy School, Healthy City, evaluation of health promotion effectiveness, health risk behaviours and determinants of health, translating the Health Promoting School framework into practice to tackle emerging health issues
- Community Based Care for chronic illness with particular focus on diabetes mellitus, hypertension, COPD, asthma, musculoskeletal problems, overweight/obesity
- Education development for professionals in the field of Family Medicine, Primary Health Care, Health Promotion
- Community based medical education

He has published over 170 articles in peer reviewed journals and has been invited as key speaker (over 100 invited presentations) in many international conferences/workshops/special lectures in Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan, Korea, Macao, Mainland China, Malaysia, Philippine, Singapore, Taiwan, U.S.A., WHO (HQ and Regional).  He contributed many book chapters of textbooks and Editor of many books in Family Medicine and Health Promoting Schools published by leading publishers (Springer, Oxford University Press, Elsevier, Radcliff, CMP Medica, Chinese University Press, City University Press).  He has been successful in obtaining research grants over HK$90 million (US1 ~ HK$7.8).  He first pioneered the concept of Health Promoting Schools in Hong Kong to promote child and adolescent health and health of the community.  His framework for development and evaluation of Health Promoting School has been widely cited in many articles (one paper published in Health Promotion International is top 50 cited articles of the journal), reports and dissertation worldwide, and adopted by many neighbouring countries (Macao, Mainland China, Taiwan, Korea, Indonesia, Japan, Laos).   The work in community health is well recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and he has been invited to serve as WHO temporary advisor on many occasions on school health, healthy city and health promotion, and professional leadership training on health promotion.  He has been appointed by WHO Regional Office to conduct consultancy studies for other Asian and Pacific countries on school health and revision of Guidelines on Health Promoting School.  He is the Lead author of 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” in 2006 by WHO Kolbe Centre for Health Development, and “Community response to Flu pandemic in municipal setting” in 2009 by WHO/HQ.  He also participated in WHO Forum and Technical meeting in Geneva for Obesity Prevention as speaker and Rapporteur for the group focusing on ‘Supportive School Environment for prevention of obesity’ in 2009.  He is also member of Scientific Advisory Council of International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) from 2010.

His expertise in Family Medicine and Health Promotion is also widely recognized by many academic institutions and professional organizations by serving as external examiner, external assessor, external reviewer and programme developer as he is pioneer in developing academic programmes in those fields.  He served as External Examiner for University Sains Malaysia Master of Family Medicine programme (Exit Examination for Specialist in Family Medicine). He served as external PhD examiner for Deakin University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.   He was external assessor for National University of Singapore, University Sains Malaysia, and of College of Medicine & Health Sciences of Sultan Qaboos, Sultanate of Oman for staff advancement to Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Rochester for staff tenure of Professor of Family Medicine, and Indiana University for staff advancement to clinical professor.  He is external reviewer for postgraduate programmes in Primary Care (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and Health Promotion (University of Brighton, UK).  He has served as grant reviewer for Medical Research Council in UK, New Zealand Research Council, and Hong Kong Research Grant Council.

He started the first Master Degree programmes in Family Medicine and Health Education and Health Promotion in Hong Kong.  He was commissioned by Macao Federation of Medical Societies and Macao Doctors’ Union through funding from Macao Government (no medical school in Macao) to develop first Diploma prorgramme in Family Medicine and structured Continuing Medical Education programme in Macao respectively.  He was also commissioned by Macao Government to produce manual guidelines for school doctors.  He has been examiner of Conjoint Fellowship examination of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and Hong Kong College of Family Physicians since 1994 and co-ordinator for Modified Essay Question (1996-98).  He was the Chairman of Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Promoting Chronic Care: Towards a Community-based Chronic Care Model for Asia in 2010 officiated by WHO/WPRO Regional Director. He was the founding Steering Committee Member of Alliance for Healthy Cities (2004-10) and Chair of the Healthy City Award Committee.  He developed the ‘SPIRIT” framework to evaluate cities for Healthy City Award by the Alliance for Healthy Cities.  He has conducted community diagnosis of 10 districts in Hong Kong (total 18 districts) commissioned by District Councils so each district has her own city health profile to reflect the health needs and challenges of the district.

He is member of Editorial Board of Health Promotion International (from 2004). He is member of BMJPRIM-L mailing list (British Medical Journal editorial advisers for primary care). He is journal reviewers for many leading international journals.  He has been involved with statutory Government bodies.  He was member of Curriculum Development Council (CDC) (2003-09) and Community Inclusive Investment Fund Committee of Hong Kong Government (2008-).  He has served as Chairman of Hong Kong CDC and Examination and Assessment Authority Committee on New Senior Secondary subject: Health Management and Social Care (2004-).  He is member of Hong Kong Beat Drug Fund Association and also the Governing Committee (Fund of HK$3 billion~US$400 million) from 2010.  He has been appointed by Chief Justice in Hong Kong to serve on Solicitors Disciplinary Panel (2010-12).  He is member of School Allocation Committee of Hong Kong (2008-).  He served as Council Member and Chairman of Research Committee of Hong Kong College of Family Physicians (1996-1998).  He was awarded the Chief Executive Commendation for Community Services in 2004 Honours list of Hong Kong 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 170 publications in Peer Review Journals)

           Health Education and Health Promotion

1. Lee A., Ho M., Keung V. Global Epidemics of Childhood Obesity is hitting a quiet corner in Asia: Case study in Macao.  International Journal of Paediatric Obesity 2011; In Press 
2. Lee A., Ho M., Keung V. Healthy Setting as an ecological model for prevention of childhood obesity.  Research in Sports Medicine: An International Journal 2010; 18 (1): 49-61.
3. 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

Family Medicine and Primary Health Care

4. Lee A, Chuh ATT. Facing the threat of Influenza Pandemic – Roles of and Implications to General Practitioners. BMC Public Health 2010; 10:661  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/10/661
5. Chan AWK#., Lee A., Suen LKP., Tam WWS.  Effectiveness of a Tai chi Qigong program in promoting health-related quality of life and perceived social support in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) clients.  Quality of Life Research 2010: 19(5): 653-664.  (#PhD  student supervised by A Lee)
6. Law PM#., Chuh A., Molinari N., Lee A.  An Investigation of the Association Between Diet and Occurrence of Acne: A Rational Approach from a Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective.  Clinical and Experimental Dermatology 2009; 35: 31-35. (#PhD  student supervised by A Lee)
7. 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

8. Zhang J., Seo DC., Kolbe L, Lee A (PI for the Chinese Cities), Middlestadt S, Zhao W, Huang SY.  Comparison of Overweight, Weight Perception, and Weight-Related Practices among High School Students in 3 Large Chinese Cities and 2 Large U.S. Cities. Journal of Adolescent Health 2011;48(4):366-372.
9. Lee A., Wong SYS., Tsang KK., Ho GSM., Wong CW., Cheng F. Understanding of suicidality and correlates amongst Chinese secondary students in Hong Kong.  Health Promotion International 2009; 24(2): 156-165. 
10.  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.

Recent Consultancy Reports and book chapters (2008-10):

Lee A. Social Capital and Health.  In Sik Hung Ng, Stephen Yan-leung Cheung, and Brahm Prakash (Eds)  Social Capital in Hong Kong—Connectivities and Social Enterprise.  City University Press, Hong Kong, 2011.

Lee A.  Trends in Hong Kong and Macao and other Chinese Communities.  In O’Dea JA, Erickesn M (Eds).  Childhood Obesity Prevention: International Research, Controversies, and Intervention. Oxford University Press, New York, USA, 2010. ISSN 978-0-19-957291-5

HOLT Tangerine, WYLIE Ann, HERRMANN Markus, KLEMENT Andreas, HASSED Craig, NOLAN Pat, LEE Albert, SHIRCORE Richard. Chapter 8. Health promotion in curricula: levels of responsibility and accountability. In Wylie Ann and Holt T (Eds). Health Promotion in Medical Education FROM RHETORIC TO ACTION. Radcliffe Publishing Ltd, 2010: Chapter 8.

HOLT Tangerine, WYLIE Ann, LEE Albert, GARLAND Elizabeth, BORDOWITZ Richard, HASSED Craig, DE COURTEN Max, LLIC Dragan. Chapter 15. Health promotion teaching: some examples of sessions and programmes. In Wylie Ann and Holt T (Eds). Health Promotion in Medical Education FROM RHETORIC TO ACTION. Radcliffe Publishing Ltd, 2010.

Yang BF, Lee A, Zhu SZ (Eds). Handbook for Primary Care Practitioners: MIMS Primary Care Clinic Series.  CMP Medica Pacific Ltd, 2009  ISSN 2073-8986.

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.

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

Lee A., Ho M., Keung MW., Wong KK.  Assessment of Dietary Pattern and Nutritional Status in Macao School Children.  Full report in Chinese (105 pages) & Summary Report in English and Chinese, Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion, School of Public
Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Oct, 2009 http://www.dsej.gov.mo/~webdsej/www/grp_db/dsejdoc_20091020_e.pdf?sid=&pt=http://&ip=&searchstyle=&clearorder=&time=1256356058&Lee.  

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