Professors' Research Interest
Sian.jpg Professor Sian Meryl GRIFFITHS, OBE (葛菲雪教授)
Professor of Public Health, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Director, School of Public Health and Primary Care
 
 Research Interest
  • Health Policy
  • Health inequalities
  • Community based health systems
  • Health in student populations
DavidHui.jpg Professor David Shu Cheong HUI (許樹昌教授)
Assistant Director (Clinical Support), School of Public Health and Primary Care
Head, Division of Infectious Diseases
Director, Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases
Head and Professor, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of
Medicine & Therapeutics
Research Interest  
  • Clinical management of emerging respiratory infections
  • The safety of respiratory therapy in the post SARS era
  • The efficacy of the medical ward airflow in preventing nosocomial infections
  • Sleep disordered breathing and common airway diseases.  
JLau.jpg
 Professor Joseph Tak Fai LAU (劉德輝教授)
Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Assistant Director (Research Development), School of Public Health and
Primary Care
Head, Division of Health Improvement
Director, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Director, Centre for Health Behaviours Research
 Research Interest 
  • Research on risk behaviors
    HIV research; HIV surveillance; Risk behaviors of bridge and mobile populations; Innovative intervention methods; Data collection methods for HIV-related information; Socio-cultural determinants of risk behaviors; HIV antibody testing behaviors; Quality of Life of people living with HIV/AIDS; Discrimination and stigmatization related to HIV/AIDS
    Other risk behaviors; Substance use; Child abuse;     Unengaged youths; Community stress due to disasters.  
  • Research on preventive behaviors
    Resilience intervention programs for youths; Physical exercise and health; Health utilization behaviors
  • Community responses (psychological and public health) to emerging infectious diseases, SARS; Avian influenza; Influenza vaccination and prevention
  • Sexual health research
    Sexual health of gay men; Sexual dysfunctions and determinants; Prevalence of sexual dysfunctions in urban and rural China; Help-seeking behaviors related to sexual dysfunction.         
JLTang.jpg Professor Jin Ling TANG (唐金陵教授)
Professor, School of Public Health & Primary Care
Assistant Director (External Affairs), School of Public Health and Primary Care
Head, Division of Epidemiology
Director, The Hong Kong Branch of the Chinese Cochrane Centre
Research Interest  
  • Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
  • Evidence-based medicine & evidence-based healthcare
  • Clinical research in efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine
  • Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease
  • Clinical research on prognosis, diagnosis and efficacy
SamuelWong.jpg Professor Samuel Yeung Shan WONG (黃仰山教授)
Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Assistant Director (Undergraduate Studies), School of Public Health and Primary Care
Head, Division of Family Medicine & Primary Health Care
Research Interest
  • Mental health and primary health care
  • Mind body and behavioral medicine
  • Men’s health 
  • Social inequality and health
  • Public health and primary care education and training
  • Health services research
Recent funded research projects include:
  • A randomized controlled clinical trail on the effect of mindfulness based stress  reduction on pain and quality of life in patients with chronic pain
  • Prevalence and risk factors of mood disorders and genitourinary problems in aging men 
  • Chronic psychosocial stress: does it modulate immunity to influenza vaccine in Hong Kong Chinese elderly
  • Men’s health survey
  • Improving general practitioners’ interviewing skills in managing patients with common psychiatric problems in primary care: A randomized control clinical trial. 
EK.jpg Professor Eng Kiong YEOH (楊永強教授)
Professor of Public Health, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Assistant Director (General Affairs & Development), School of Public Health and Primary Care
Head, Divisiion of Health Systyem, Policy and Management
Director, Centre for Systems for Health
Research Interest 
  • Systems for Health 
IgnatiusYu.jpg 
 Professor Ignatius Tak Sun YU (余德新教授)
Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Assistant Director (Graduate Studies), School of Public Health and Primary Care
Head, Division of Occupational & Environmental Health
Co-Director, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health Studies
Research Interest
  • Occupational and environmental epidemiology
  • Occupational respiratory disorders
  • Cancer epidemiology, especially occupational and environmental risk factors for cancers
  • Air pollution and health
  • Ergonomics and musculoskeletal disorders
  • Occupational noise exposure and hearing impairment
  • Epidemiology of SARS and other respiratory infections
  • Methodological studies in epidemiology
  • Clinical epidemiology
  • Injury epidemiology 
BennyZee.jpg Professor Benny Chung Ying ZEE (徐仲锳教授)
Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Assistant Director (Research), School of Public Health and Primary Care
Head, Division of Biostatistics
Director, Centre for Clinical Trials
Assistant Dean (Research), Faculty of Medicine
Research Interest  
  • Clinical trials methodology - Design of phase II/III clinical trials with multiple endpoints; Interim analysis issues; Randomized phase II design for hepatocellular cancer (HCC) trials
  • Biostatistics Methodology: Quality of life analysis with missing data; survival analysis
  • Bioinformatics analysis – Wavelet-based approach to analyze microarray data; Analysis of array-CGH data; Prognostic modeling with gene expression;
  • Ethical issues in clinical research
  • Data management in clinical trials - remote data entry; data  
HFKung.jpg Professor Hsiang Fu KUNG (孔祥復教授)
Professor of Virology, Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases
Research Interest  
  • Bacterial genetics and metabolism
  • Enzymology, gene regulation, cytokines, oncogenes and tumor suppressor
  • Genes, growth and differentiation factors
  • Signal transduction, embryonic development and traditional Chinese medicine.
AlbertLee.jpg Professor Albert LEE (李大拔教授)
Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Director, Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion
Research Interest 
  • 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
SSLee.jpg Professor Shui Shan LEE (李瑞山教授)
Professor of Infectious Diseases, Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infections Diseases
Deputy Director, Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases
Research Interest  
  • Epidemiology of infectious diseases, with focus on the application of spatial, social and molecular techniques
  • Clinical epidemiology of HIV/AIDS
  • Treatment optimization in HIV infection Interdisciplinary research on infection risk in heroin addiction
Sung.jpg Professor Joseph Jao Yiu SUNG (沈祖堯教授)
Founding Director and Advisor, Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases
Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics
Chairman, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics
Associate Dean (General Affairs), Faculty of Medicine
Head, Shaw College of the University
Research Interest 
  • Viral Hepatitis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma
  • Enteric Infections including Viral and Protozoa Infections of the DigestiveTract
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
  • HIV/AIDS 
TWWong.jpg Professor Tze Wai WONG (黄子惠教授)
Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Co-Director, Centre for Occupational & Environmental Health Studies
Research Interest 
  • Air pollution and health
  • Environmental epidemiology
  • Health impact of air pollution control
  • Long-term impact of air pollution on respiratory health
  • Infectious diseases epidemiology.
  • Occupational health
JeanWoo.jpg Professor Jean WOO (黃胡令芳教授)
Director, Centre for Nutritional Studies
Director, S H Ho Centre for Gerontology and Geriatrics
Head and Professor of Medic
Research Interest 
  • Epidemiology of chronic diseases
  • Health services research
  • Consequences of the ageing population
  • Relationship between socioeconomic and psychosocial factors and health
  • Nutrition and chronic diseases
  • Lifestyle and health
professor_susanne_ho100.jpg Professor Suzanne Sut Ying C. HO (何陳雪鸚教授)
Research Professor of Community and Family Medicine, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Director, Centre of Research and Promotion of Women's Health
Research Interest  
  • Nutrition
    Nutritional epidemiology, dietary intake, in particular soy intake, and chronic diseases, nutritional intake in population groups
  • Aging
    Longitudinal study on mortality and morbidity outcomes, epidemiology of aging and common chronic diseases
  • Women's health / Osteoporosis 
    Women's health in midlife, cardiovascular health, body composition, bone mass and bone loss in different age groups and their determinants, soy protein and isoflavones and women’s health (osteoporosis, cardiovascular risks, cognitive function, breast cancer risks) 
MLHe.jpg Professor Ming Liang HE (何明亮教授)
Associate Professor, Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases
Research Interest 
  • Cancer and infectious diseases caused by viruses (including hepatitis B/C virus, human immunodeficiency virus, SARS-coronavirus)
  • The dissection of the mechanism of these diseases
  • Development of therapeutic drugs (including agents for gene therapy) for the treatment of cancers and viral infections. 
XRWong.jpg Professor Xiao Rong WANG (王曉蓉教授)
Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Associate Professor, Centre for Occupational & Environmental Health Studies
Research Interest 
  • Environmental /occupational epidemiology, including related cancer research
  • Industrial dust related respiratory disease and lung cancer
  • Air pollution and health effects
  • Epidemiological study on genetic susceptibility to environmental /occupational exposures
MartinWong.jpg Professor Martin Chi Sang WONG (黃至生教授)
Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Research Interest 

Studies of chronic diseases in family practice with focus on:
  • Pharmacotherapy
  • Preventive medicine and screening
  • Health care utilization 
EmilyChan.jpg Professor Emily Ying Yang CHAN (陳英凝教授)
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Research Interest 
  • Health impact of Injury and Disaster (Heat wave/Natural disaster eg. Earthquakes, Tsunami, floods and hurricanes)
  • Social determinants of health for special population groups(Migrants, children, women, disabilities)
  • Health assessment methodologies (Need/impact assessments) 
  • Global Health issues 
Professor Chan research work uses multidisciplinary methods from public health, clinical medicine, disaster science, health economics and management sciences.   
FrankChan.jpg Professor Frank Wan Kin CHAN (陳允健教授)
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Assistant Professor, Centre for Sytems for Health
Research Interest 

  • Health systems, Health policy
WilliamGoggins.jpg Professor William GOGGINS (高威廉教授)
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Research Interest 
  • Cancer epidemiology, particularly epidemiology of second primary malignancies.
  • Applications of logistic regression and survival analysis methods to epidemiological data.
  • The influence of demographic and socioeconomic factors on health including mortality, infant birth weight, hospital services usage.  
JeanKim.jpg Professor Jean Hee KIM (金真希教授)
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Assistant Director, Centre for Health Behaviours Research
Research Interest 
  • Epidemiology
ShellyTse.jpg Professor Shelly Lap Ah TSE (謝立亞教授)
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Assistant Professor, Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health Studies
Research Interest 
  • Cancer and occupational epidemiology;
  • Occupational and environmental health;
  • Occupational hygiene and injuries;
  • Cerebrovascular diseases
ElizaWong.jpg Professor Eliza Lai Yi WONG (黃麗儀教授)
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Assistant Professor, Centre for Systems for Health
Research Interest 
  • Efficacy of Chinese Medicine on the immunology and quality of life in cancer patients.
  • Health improvement in children
  • Health improvement in women
  • Healthcare system and policy  
XHZhang.jpg Professor Xin Hua ZHANG (張新華教授)
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Research Interest 
  • Chronic disease epidemiology and prevention
 
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