Professor Su Vui LO
FHKAM (Com Med), FHKCCM, MRCP (UK), FRCP (Edin), FFPHM, FRACMA

Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
Chief Manager (Statistics, Workforce Planning & Knowledge Management),
Hospital Authority

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Biography 

Dr. S. V. Lo is Head of Research Office at the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, and also Chief Manager in charge of the portfolio on health service statistics, workforce planning and knowledge management at the Hong Kong Hospital Authority.  Trained as an internal physician, he specializes in Public Health Medicine and Administrative Medicine.  Currently, he also holds the following positions:-

  • Examiner, Part I & II Public Health Medicine Fellowship Examination, Faculty of Public Health, UK & Hong Kong College of Community Medicine;
  • Censor and Examiner, Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators;
  • Censor, Administrative Medicine Subspecialty Board, Hong Kong College of Community Medicine;
  • Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and
  • Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong.

Teaching Modules 
PBH7003 Health Policy & Management
PBH5095 Health Care Systems 

Research Interests 
His research interests include health care financing, factors influencing health service utilization, population health status and chronic disease epidemiology. 

Select Publications
Richard Collins, Janice M Johnston, Amanda MY Tang, Patrick Kwan, Lo SV. Government-funded Mental Health Research in Hong Kong: A Descriptive Analysis. Journal of Psychology in Chinese Societies Vol 7 No 1 (2006), 29-43 
Cowling BJ, Muller MP, Wong IO, Ho LM, Lo SV, Tsang T, Lam TH, Louie M, Leung GM. Clinical Prognostic Rules for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Both Low- and High-Resource Settings. Arch Intern Med 2006; 166:1505-1511.  
Leung GM, Tin KY, Yeung RY, Rannan-Eliya R, Leung ES, Lam DW, Lo SV. Domestic health expenditure in Hong Kong: 1989/90 to 2001/02. Hong Kong Med J 2006; 12(1):47-55. 
Wong IO, Chan WS, Choi S, Lo SV, Leung GM. Moral hazard or realised access to care? Empirical observations in Hong Kong. Health Policy 2006; 75(3):251-261. 
Leung GM, Wong OL, Chan WS, Choi S, Lo SV. The ecology of health care in Hong Kong. Soc Sci Med 2005;61:577-90. 
Tsui EL, Leung GM, Woo PP, Choi S, Lo SV. Under-reporting of inpatient services utilisation in household surveys - a population-based study in Hong Kong. BMC Health Serv Res 2005;5:31. 
Lai PC, Wong CM, Hedley AJ, Lo SV., Leung PY, Kong J, Leung GM. Understanding the spatial clustering of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong. Environ Health Perspect 2004;112:1550-6. 
Leung GM, Hedley AJ, Ho LM, Chau P, Wong IO, Thach TQ, Ghani AC, Donnelly CA, Fraser C, Riley S, Ferguson NM, Anderson RM, Tsang T, Leung PY, Wong V, Chan JC, Tsui E, Lo SV, Lam TH. The epidemiology of severe acute respiratory syndrome in the 2003 Hong Kong epidemic: an analysis of all 1755 patients. Ann Intern Med 2004;141:662-73. 
Riley S, Fraser C, Donnelly CA, Ghani AC, Abu-Raddad LJ, Hedley AJ, Leung GM, Ho LM, Lam TH, Thach TQ, Chau P, Chan KP, Lo SV, Leung PY, Tsang T, Ho W, Lee KH, Lau EM, Ferguson NM, Anderson RM. Transmission dynamics of the etiological agent of SARS in Hong Kong: impact of public health interventions. Science 2003;300:1961-6. 
Lo SV,.Fung H. Ensuring the quality of health care. Hong Kong Med J 2001;7:174-9.