Professor Sian Meryl GRIFFITHS, OBE (葛菲雪教授)

MA, MB BChir (Cantab), MSc, FFPH (UK), FRCP (Lond), FRCP (Edin),    FDSRCS (Eng), FHKCCM, FHKAM (Community Medicine)

Professor of Public Health, School of Public Health and
Primary Care
Director, School of Public Health and Primary Care
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Professor Griffiths is the Director of the School of Public Health and Primary Care. Qualified as a doctor, she has held a variety of service posts with academic links at international, national, regional and local level whilst based in the UK including Chair of the Association for Public Health, co-founded the UKPHA and President of the UK Faculty of Public Health.  
In 2003 she co-chaired the Hong Kong Government’s expert committee into the SARS epidemic. This led to her present appointment in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Active in public health professional organizations and collaborating across the healthcare and academic systems within the region, her research interests include developing primary care and community health systems, addressing health inequalities/inequities and developing public health education.  She was a member of the Bahunia Foundations health reform advisory group, is convenor of HK Food and Health Bureau’s concepts for primary care reform, advisor to the Department of Health including on their Non Communicable Disease strategy and has a series of collaborations within mainland China.  Her specific research focus is on health of migrants and the development of public health and primary care systems and capacity. She is leading the development of the new BSc course in public health at the School of Public Health and Primary Care and is Director of the Masters in Public Health Programme.
She has honorary academic appointments at Guangzhou Medical College, Peking University School of Public Health and Primary Care, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Cardiff University with whom active links with Chongqing are in place.  She remains honorary senior clinical lecturer in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care of Oxford University, and actively promotes student exchange and research links through their Global MSc. She was recently appointed to the Centre for Migration Studies in Zhongshan University.

Vincent Chung: Integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Modern Western Clinical Practice: Implications for Health Services [2005-9]

Dr Abhishek Sharma, Rhodes Scholar, Visiting students from University of Oxford [2005-9]

Liu Qiang: Health Systems and Policy [2006-2009]

Cai Yue: Migrant Children Health [Joint with Professor Emily Chan, 2006-9]

Mou Jin: Healthcare Utilization and the Health Insurance Programme Evaluation in Rural-to-urban Migrant Workers [2007- ]

Johnson Lau: Internet Addiction [Jointly with Professor Jean Kim, 2007- ]

Hildy Fong: Migration and Immunisation Policy [2008- ]

Eliza Leung: Migration Studies [Joint with Professor Emily Chan, 2009- ]

Haoxiang Wang: Effective dietary interventions to reduce hypertension [with Martin Wong,2009- ]

• Health Policy
• Equity and Health: migration as a focus
• Community based health systems
• Health in student populations

Griffiths S. H1N1: Looking back and ahead. China Daily, 18 September 2009.

Chor JSY, Ngai KLK, Goggins WB, Wong SYS, Lee N, Leung TF, Rainer TH, Griffiths S, Chan PKS.  Willingness of Hong Kong healthcare workers to accept pre-pandemic influenza vaccination at different WHO alert levels: two questionnaire surveys.  BMJ (2009) online: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/339/aug25_2/b3391

Griffiths S.  The role of public health governance. Forward.  Public Health, 2009 Mar 123(3):213. doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2009.02.004

Griffiths S, Chung V. Development and Regulation of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners in Hong Kong. Perspectives in Public Health 2009 March: 129(2):64-7

Chung V, Law M, Wong S, Mercer S, Griffiths S.  Postgraduate education for Chinese medicine practitioners: a Hong Kong Perspective. BMC Medical Education 2009, 9:10; Published online 19 Feb 2009 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/9/10

Chung C.H., Lau C.H., Wong M.C., Yeoh E.K., Griffiths S. Perceived quality of communication amongst outpatients in western and traditional Chinese medicine clinics in a Chinese population. Health Policy (In Press). doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2008.09.005

Lam T.S., Tse L.A., Yu Ignatius, Griffiths S.  Prevalence of Smoking and Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposures, and Attitudes and Beliefs towards Tobacco Control among Hong Kong Medical Students. Public Health 2009; 123(1): 42-46

Lau CH, Griffiths S, Chow KW, Fong YF, Kuen MY, Kim H. Heavy Internet Use and Correlations with interpersonal behaviours among University Entrants in Hong Kong.  Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health, 2008; 20(4): 134-140

Griffiths S. Researching Women’s Health in Asia: Are We Doing Enough?  Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health 2008; 20(4):265-266

Chan Emily, Griffiths S, Chan CW. Public-health risks of melamine in milk products. Lancet 2008; 372(9648):1444-1445

Wong M, Jiang J, Lam AT, Fung H, Griffiths S, Mercer S. Pattern of antihypertensive prescribing, discontinuation and switching among a Hong Kong Chinese population from over one million prescriptions. Journal of Human Hypertension 2008 Oct; 22(10):714-6 doi:10.1038/jhh.2008.83

Griffiths S.  A third revolution in human history? Journal of Public Health Dec 2008; 30(4):368-369  doi:10.1093/pubmedfdn087

Lau Joseph TF, Kim Jean H, Tsui HY, Griffiths S. Perceptions related to bird-to-human avian influenza, influenza vaccination and use of face mask. Infection 2008 Oct; 36(5):434-43

Li, Chow JKW, Griffiths S, Zhang L, Lam J, Kim JH (corresponding), University Peer Health Education: the Shantou, China Experience. J American College Health 2008

Griffiths S. One Country, Two Systems: Public Health in China.  Public Health 2008; 122(8):754-61

Kim Jean H, Lee Sing, Chow Julie, Lau Joseph, Tsang Adley, Choi Jacqueline, Griffiths S.  Prevalence and factors associated with binge drinking, alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence: A population-based study of Chinese adults in Hong Kong.  Alcohol and Alcoholism 2008 May-Jun; 43(3):360-70

Xu Fei, Tse Lap Ah, Yin Xiaomei, Yu Ignatius, Griffiths S.  Impact of Socio-Economic Factors on Stroke Prevalence among Urban and Rural Residents in Mainland China" BMC Public Health 2008; 8(170): 1039-1050 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-170

Chan Emily YY, Griffiths S, Gao Y, Chan CW, Fok TF.  Addressing disparities in children’s health in China. Archives of Childhood Disease 2008 April; 93(4), 346-352

Cheng Tereza SY, Tse Lap Ah, Yu Tak Sun Ignatius, Griffiths S.  "Children's Perceptions of Parental Attitude Affecting Breakfast Skipping in Primary Sixth-Grade Students".  Journal of School Health 2008 Apr; 78(4):203-8

Sung JJY, Choi SYP, Chan FKL, Ching JYL, Lau JTF, Griffiths S. Obstacles to Colorectal Cancer Screening in Chinese: A Study Based on Health Belief Model. American Journal of Gastroenterology, 2008 April, 103(4):974-81

Li Donald KT, Griffiths S, Wong Andromeda HS, Yeoh, EK, The Primary Care System and Health Insurance in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Practitioner, March 2008; 30(1): 38-42

Chor JSY, Leung JCS, Chan DCC, Griffiths S, Leung PC. Breast cancer screening practice of Chinese elderly worth re-evaluation of health promotion policy. Journal of Public Health; March 2008; 30(1): 110-111

Thorpe A, Griffiths S, Jewell T, Adshead F, The three domains of public health : An internationally relevant basis for public health education? Public Health 2008; 122(2):201-210

Kwok T, Lee J, Woo J, Lee Dianna TF, Griffiths S. A randomized controlled trial of a community nurse-supported hospital discharge programme in older patients with chronic heart failure. Journal of Clinical Nursing 2008; 17(1):109-117

Chan Emily Y, Kim J, Ng Q, Griffiths S, Lau Joseph TF. A descriptive study of nonfatal unintentional home-based injury in urban settings: evidence from Hong Kong. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health 2008 Supplement Issue; 20:39-48

Gao Y, Griffiths S, Chan E. Community-based interventions to reduce overweight and obesity in China: a systematic review of the Chinese and English literature. Journal of Public Health  2008; 30(4):436-448 doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdm057

Lau JT, Kim JH, Tsui HY, Griffiths S.  Anticipated and current preventive behaviors in response to an anticipated human-to-human H5N1 epidemic in the Hong Kong Chinese general population. BMC Infectious Diseases 2007 March 15; 7:18

Lau J, Kim J, Tsui HY, Griffiths S. Perceptions related to human avian influenza and their associations with anticipated psychological and behavioral responses at the onset of outbreak in the Hong Kong Chinese general population. American Journal of Infection Control 2007 Feb, 35(1):38-49

Griffiths S, Thorpe A.  Public Health in Transition: Views of the Specialist Workforce. 2007. The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health 2007; 127(5):219-223

Griffiths S, Crown J, McEwen J.  The role of the Faculty of Public Health (Medicine) in developing a multidisciplinary public health profession in the UK. Public Health 2007; 121.6; 420-425. 

Griffiths S.  Sustainable Development: A Far Eastern Challenge. Public Health 2006; 120(12):1114-1116

Chung V, Wong E, Griffiths S. Content Validity of the Integrative Medicine Attitude Questionnaire: perspective of Hong Kong Chinese expert panel. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2007; 13(5):563-570
 
Chung V, Wong E, Woo J, Lo SV, Griffiths S. Use of traditional Chinese medicine in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China.  The Journal of  Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2007; 13(3):361-8

Lau JT, Kim JH, Tsui H, Griffiths S.  Perceptions related to human avian influenza and their associations with anticipated psychological and behavioral responses at the onset of outbreak in the Hong Kong Chinese general population. Am J Infect Control 2007 Feb; 35(1):38-49

Lau JTF, Kim JH, Tsui HY, Griffiths S. Perceptions about Status and Modes of H5N1 Transmission and Associations with Immediate Behavioral Responses in the Hong Kong General Population. Preventive Medicine 2006. 43 (5):406-410

Burke, W, Khoury, M, Stewart A, Zimmerin RL, Bellagio Group, Griffiths S. et al. The Path from Genome-Based Research to Population health: Development of an International Public Health Genomics Network. Genetics in Medicine 2006; 8 (7):451-458

Griffiths S, Lau JT, Chow JK, Lee SS, Kan PY, Lee S. Alcohol Use among Entrants to a Hong Kong University. Alcohol and alcoholism 2006. 41 (5): 560-5

Griffiths S. The role of Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board. Archives of Diseases of Childhood 2006; 91(2): 195-7

Griffiths S., Jewell T, Donnelly P. Public health in practice: the three domains of public health. Public Health 2005; 119: 907-913

Griffiths S. Public Health lessons from SARS in Hong Kong. Journal of Healthcare Management 2005; 11(7)