Professor Roger Yat-Nork CHUNG (鍾一諾教授)

BA (Johns Hopkins), MHS (Johns Hopkins), PhD (HKU)
Assistant Professor,  JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK
Assistant Professor (by courtesy), CUHK JC Institute of Ageing
Executive Board Member, Research Centre on Migration and Mobility, CUHK
Executive Committee Member, The Centre for Quality of Life, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, CUHK

Concentration Coordinator (Population and Global Health), Master of Public Health             
Stream Leaders of Development, Poverty and Health, Centre for Global Health 

Affiliation: Chung Chi College

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Biography

Dr. Chung joined the School of Public Health and Primary Care (SPHPC) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2011. 
He conceptualizes the health and healthcare issues of the population using the lens of public health ethics and justice,
and utilizes epidemiological and demographic methods in the areas of poverty and health, health inequality,
social determinants of health, migrants’ health, as well as aging-related issues on multimorbidity and long-term/end-of-life care
to inform health services, system and policy.  He has had numerous publications including academic articles in leading high-impact peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and consulting reports. 

Dr. Chung is the Stream Leader of Development, Poverty and Health of the Centre for Global Health and a founding executive committee member of the up-and-coming Centre for Migration and Mobility, to be commenced in Fall 2016.
He also actively collaborates with international partners through three Worldwide Universities Network (WUN)’s working groups
on global migrants’ health, advanced epidemiological methodology and intergenerational health equity.
He has served in various official consultation committees by the Government, including the Domestic Health Accounts and Thematic Household Survey of the Food and Health Bureau, and has been involved in two Government commissioned projects on elderly care and healthcare resource allocation exercise.

Teaching Modules
Undergraduate level:
  • PHPC1001/UGEC1920 – Foundations in Public Health(Course Coordinator)
  • PHPC4016 (previously PHPC4014) Research and Practice-based Project
  • PHPC4031 –Gender, age-related healthcare (Course Coordinator), 2012 – 2014
  • MEDF1031 Communication Skills
  • MEDF1120 Faculty Package: Public Health

Postgraduate level:
  • PBHT5000 – Founation of Public Health (Course Coordinator)
  • POPG5007 – Demography and Health (Course Coordinator)
  • POPG5001 – Global Health (Health Inequalities)
  • PBHT6802/PBHT6803 – Global Health Live
  • PBHT 6900 – MPH Capstone
  • EPID 5003 – Analysis of Epidemiological Data
  • HSYS5001 – Health Policy and Management (Head Tutor, 2014-15)
  • PUPH 6002 – Technical Writing
  • WOHS 5001 – Women’s health: (Social cultural determinants and international perspectives)- 2011-12                     
Research interests
  • Health inequality and social epidemiology  
    • Poverty, social deprivation and health
    • Social determinants of health
    • Public Health ethics and Justice
  • Aging-related system, policy and services research 
    • Multimorbidity
    • Long-term and end-of-life care 
  • Population and Global Health
    • Migrants’ health
    • Epidemiology of diseases (NCDs, and mental health) with application of advanced statistical modeling methods
  • Environmental health
Selected Publications
  • Threapleton DE, Chung RY, Wong SYS, Wong E, Chau P, Woo J, Chung VCH, Yeoh EK. Integrated care for older populations and its implementation facilitators and barriers: A rapid scoping review. Int J Qual Health Care. 2017 Apr 20:1-8.

  • Diaz E, Ortiz-Barreda G, Ben-Shlomo Y, Holdsworth M, Salami B, Rammohan A, Chung RY, Padmadas SS, Krafft T. Interventions to improve immigrant health. A scoping review. Eur J Public Health. 2017 Feb 27.

  • Chung RY, Wong EL, Kiang N, Chau PY, Lau JY, Wong SY, Yeoh EK, Woo JW. Knowledge, Attitudes, and Preferences of Advance Decisions, End-of-Life Care, and Place of Care and Death in Hong Kong. A Population-Based Telephone Survey of 1067 Adults. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2017 Feb 14.

  • Chung RY, Mercer SW, Yip BH, Chan SW, Lai FT, Wang HH, Wong MC, Wong CK, Sit RW, Yeoh EK, Wong SY. The association between types of regular primary care and hospitalization among people with and without multimorbidity: A household survey on 25,780 Chinese. Sci Rep. 2016 Jul 20;6:29758

  • Lao XQ, Ma W, Chung RY, Zhang Y, Xu Y, Xu X, Nie S, Cai Q, Xia L, Su X, Jin L, Tam T, Zee BC. The diminishing socioeconomic disparity in obesity in a Chinese population with rapid economic development: analysis of serial cross-sectional health survey data 2002-2010. BMC Public Health. 2015 Dec 23;15(1):1282.

  • Li H, Qian D, Griffiths S, Chung RY, Wei X. What are the similarities and differences in structure and function among the three main models of community health centers in China: a systematic review. BMC Health Serv Res. 2015 Nov 10;15:504. 

  • Chung RY, Wong SYS. Health inequality in Hong Kong. China Review 2015;15(2):91-118.

  • Chung RY, Mercer S, Lai FT, Yip BH, Wong MC, Wong SY. Socioeconomic Determinants of Multimorbidity: A Population-Based Household Survey of Hong Kong Chinese. PLoS One. 2015 Oct 9;10(10):e0140040.

  • Chung RY, Yip BH, Chan SS, Wong SY. COHORT EFFECTS OF SUICIDE MORTALITY ARE SEX SPECIFIC IN THE RAPIDLY DEVELOPED HONG KONG CHINESE POPULATION, 1976-2010. Depress Anxiety. 2015 Sep 28.

  • WOO J; CHAN YLH; CHONG AMl; ZOU M; Chung RY and KWOK CYT. Medical Ethical Principles May Drive Improvement of Quality of Dying in Hong Kong. Journal of Palliative Care & Medicine 2015;5(5):227-232.

  • Chung RY, Chan D, Woo J, Kwok T, Leung JC, Lai FT, Wong SY. Erectile Dysfunction is Associated with Subsequent Cardiovascular and Respiratory Mortality in Cohort of 1,436 Chinese Elderly Men. J Sex Med. 2015 Jul;12(7):1568-76.

  • Yip BH, Chung RY, Chung VC, Kim J, Chan IW, Wong MC, Wong SY, Griffiths SM. Is Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) or its shorter versions more useful to identify risky drinkers in a Chinese population? A diagnostic study. PLoS One. 2015 Mar 10;10(3):e0117721.

  • Wong MC, Liu J, Zhou S, Li S, Su X, Wang HH, Chung RY, Yip BH, Wong SY, Lau JT. The association between multimorbidity and poor adherence with cardiovascular medications. Int J Cardiol. 2014 Dec 15;177(2):477-82.

  • Wong MC, Wu CH, Wang HH, Li HW, Hui EM, Lam AT, Chung RY, Yip BH, Morisky DE. Association between the eight-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-8) score and glycaemic control among Chinese diabetes patients. J Clin Pharmacol. 2014 Oct 7. 

  • Chung RY, Kim JH, Yip BH, Wong SYS, Wong MCS, et al. (2014) Alcohol Tax Policy and Related Mortality. An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of a Rapidly Developed Chinese Population, 1981–2010. PLoS ONE 9(8): e99906.

  • Li H, Wei X, Ma A, Chung RY*. Inequalities in Health Status among Rural Residents: EQ-5D Findings from Household Survey China. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2014;13:41

  • Li H, Chung RY, Wei X, Mou J, Wong SY, Wong MC, Zhang D, Zhang Y, Griffiths S. Comparison of perceived quality amongst migrant and local patients using primary health care delivered by community health centres in Shenzhen, China. BMC Fam Pract. 2014 Apr 29;15(1):76.

  • Chung RY, Leung JCS, Chan DCC, Woo J, Wong CKM, Wong SYS. Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) as a Risk Factor for Depressive Symptoms in Elderly Men: Results from a Large Prospective Study in Southern Chinese Men. PLoS One. 2013 Sep 30;8(9):e76017

  • Chung RY, Leung GM, Cowling BJ, Schooling CM. Patterns of and hypotheses for infection-related cancers in a Chinese population with rapid economic development. Epidemiol Infect. 2012 Oct;140(10):1904-19.

  • Wong CM, Vichit-Vadakan N, Vajanapoom N, Ostro B, Thach TQ, Chau PY, Chan EK, Chung RY, Ou CQ, Yang L, Peiris JS, Thomas GN, Lam TH, Wong TW, Hedley AJ, Kan H, Chen B, Zhao N, London SJ, Song G, Chen G, Zhang Y, Jiang L, Qian Z, He Q, Lin HM, Kong L, Zhou D, Liang S, Zhu Z, Liao D, Liu W, Bentley CM, Dan J, Wang B, Yang N, Xu S, Gong J, Wei H, Sun H, Qin Z; HEI Health Review Committee.  Part 5. Public health and air pollution in Asia (PAPA): a combined analysis of four studies of air pollution and mortality. Res Rep Health Eff Inst. 2010 Nov;(154):377-418.

  • Wong CM, Thach TQ, Chau PY, Chan EK, Chung RY, Ou CQ, Yang L, Peiris JS, Thomas GN, Lam TH, Wong TW, Hedley AJ; HEI Health Review Committee. Part 4. Interaction between air pollution and respiratory viruses: time-series study of daily mortality and hospital admissions in Hong Kong. Res Rep Health Eff Inst. 2010 Nov;(154):283-362.

  • Thach TQ, Wong CM, Chan KP, Chau YK, Chung YN, Ou CQ, Yang L, Hedley AJ. Daily visibility and mortality: assessment of health benefits from improved visibility in Hong Kong. Environ Res.2010;110(6):617-23.

  • Kan H, Wong CM, Vichit-Vadakan N, Qian Z, Vichit-Vadakan N, Vajanapoom N, Ostro B, Wong CM, Thach TQ, Chau PY, Chan KP, Chung RY, Ou CQ, Yang L, Thomas GN, Lam TH, Hedley AJ, Peiris JS, Wong TW, Kan H, Chen B, Zhao N, Zhang Y, London SJ, Song G, Jiang L, Chen G, Qian Z, Lin HM, Bentley CM, Lin HM, He Q, Kong L, Yang N, Zhou D, Xu S, Liu W.  Short-term association between sulfur dioxide and daily mortality: the Public Health and Air Pollution in Asia (PAPA) study. Environ Res. 2010;110(3):258-64.

  • Chung RY, Schooling CM, Cowling BJ, Leung GM. How does socioeconomic development affect risk of mortality? An age-period-cohort analysis from a recently transitioned population in China. Am J Epidemiol. 2010 Feb 1;171(3):345-56.

  • Chung RY, Tin KYK, Cowling BJ, Chan KP, Chan WM, Lo SV, Leung GM. Long-term care cost drivers and expenditure projection to 2036 in Hong Kong. BMC Health Serv Res. 2009 Sep 24;9:172.

  • Wong CM, Vichit-Vadakan N, Kan H, Qian Z, PAPA Project Teams. Public Health and Air Pollution in Asia (PAPA): a multicity study of short-term effects of air pollution on mortality. Environ Health Perspect. 2008;116(9):1195-1202.

  • Wong CM, Ou CQ, Chan KP, Chau YK, Thach TQ, Yang L, Chung RY, Thomas GN, Peiris JSM, Wong TW, Hedley AJ, Lam TH. The effects of air pollution on mortality in socially deprived urban areas in Hong Kong, China. Environ Health Perspect. 2008;116(9):1189-1194.

  • Ou CQ, Hedley AJ, Chung RY, Thach TQ, Chau YK, Chan KP, Yang L, Ho SY, Wong CM, Lam TH. Socioeconomic disparities in air pollution-associated mortality. Environ Res. 2008;107(2):237-244. 

  • Wong CM, Ou CQ, Thach TQ, Chau YK, Chung RY, Lam TH, Hedley AJ. Lifestyle-modified mortality associated with air pollution: a time-series study. Hong Kong Med J. 2008;14(Suppl 3):S13-16.

  • Wong CM, Ou CQ, Thach TQ, Chau YK, Chan KP, Ho SY, Chung RY, Lam TH, Hedley AJ. Does regular exercise protect against air pollution-associated mortality? Prev Med. 2007;44(5):386-392.

  • Wong CM, Ou CQ, Chung RY, Thach TQ, Chan KP, Chau YK, Lam TH, Hedley AJ. Lifestyle-modified mortality associated with air pollution (abstract). Epidemiology. 2006;17(6):S340

  • Ou CQ, Chung RY, Thach TQ, Chan KP, Chau YK, Yang L, Lam TH, Hedley AJ, Wong CM. The Modifying Effects of Individual Socioeconomic Status on Mortality Risk Associated with Air Pollution (abstract). Epidemiology. 2006;17(6):S96

  • Wong MCS, Chung RY. The prescription pattern of antihypertensives among family medicine trainees in Hong Kong Part 1: in the absence of concomitant cardiovascular risk factors. The Hong Kong Practitioner 2004;26:420-429 

  • Wong MCS, Chung RY. The prescription pattern of antihypertensives among family medicine trainees in Hong Kong Part 2: in the presence of diabetes. The Hong Kong Practitioner 2005;27:83-93

  • Wong MCS, Chung RY. The prescription pattern of antihypertensives among family medicine trainees in Hong Kong Part 3: in the presence of hyperlipidemia. The Hong Kong Practitioner 2005;27:123-132
Book Chapters & Commissioned Technical Report

Chung RY and Wong SYS. "Chapter 5 – Health Inequality in Hong Kong". Poverty in a Rich Society, ed. by Lau MKW & Gordon D, pp. 89–115. The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong; 2017.

Chung RY and KIM JH. "Chapter 9 – Epidemiology: from Observation to Public Health Action".Routledge Handbook of Global Public Halth in Asia ed. by Griffiths SM, Tang JL and Yeoh EK. pp.118–132. Routledge, London and New York; 2014.
 
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