Shek Ng

Part-time Student in MBA Programme in Health Care, CUHK
Manager (LS), Hospital Authority Head Office

“My final year spent with the School of Public Health as part of the MBA (Health Care) programme has proved to be the perfect conclusion of this innovative and enormously rewarding programme. Wherever possible, the SPH tailors its courses to fit needs of the MBA students with the emphasis on developing skills that apply in the healthcare setting to compliment theories and knowledge that have already been taught during the leading two years of focusing on business and finance. It also made sure we got good training and exposure on cornerstones and major issues of public health. The SPH has an impressive collaborative network with local and international key players in public health. Students could actually feel for themselves the benefit of such a network simply by noting the sheer number of seminars, talks and short courses delivered by visiting experts made accessible to them. Opportunity to communicate face-to-face with leading healthcare executives gave students immediate access to the center of events that were either well in the past or sometimes still evolving at the time. The SPH catered the diverse interests of students and it did not hesitate to run small classes in comfortable rooms to benefit relatively small groups of students. In such situations the formal lectures would typically reduce to friendly yet rigorous exchange of ideas between professors and students. Ample opportunity for interaction existed and students found it easy to build good bonds with each other. As Hong Kong is heading further into an advanced society leveraging on its being a financial hub and economic powerhouse in the world, there will be likely more challenging issues with complex interactions between public health and areas involving business practice and economics. I am glad that I have had the wonderful experience of enjoyable learning through two graduate schools of Business Administration and Public Health in this one programme.”