Professor Harry Haoxiang WANG (王皓翔)
BS, MS (SCNU); PhD (CUHK)

Adjunct Assistant Professor, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Harry Hao-Xiang WANG gained a Ph.D. in Public Health with ‘The Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (2012)’ at the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong in October 2012, and was immediately appointed as Lecturer at CUHK in the same year.  He is now an Associate Professor at the School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, P.R. China.  He holds appointments as Research Fellow (General Practice and Primary Care) and Honorary Senior Lecturer (Public Health) at the Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, UK; and is Adjunct Assistant Professor, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK, Hong Kong. 

Harry Haoxiang WANG received an award under the CUHK Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence (2010-11) to carry out research on primary care at the Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, UK as a Visiting Scholar.  He was supported by the Fellowship awarded under the Hong Kong-Scotland Partners in Post Doctoral Research for 2012/13 launched by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong in collaboration with the Scottish Government, UK.  Harry has joined General Practice and Primary Care, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, UK as an affiliate member of staff in June 2013, working on primary care research focused on long-term conditions and multimorbidity in Scotland and Hong Kong/China.  He was an active speaker at many international academic conferences organised by World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA), World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA), World Heart Federation (WHF), International Society of Hypertension (ISH), and Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH), etc, with awards granted.

Harry Haoxiang is a Professional Member of the International Society of Hypertension (UK), a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (UK), and a peer reviewer for the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinician Scientist Fellowship (CSF) scheme.  He serves on the Family Doctor-contracted Service Expert Advisory Panel for the Guangdong-provincial Health and Family Planning Commission (HFPC), P.R. China, to advise primary care development.  Harry H.X. WANG has acted as a contributor in several medical textbooks, including a book chapter on Developing Primary Care in China in Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health in East Asia (Taylor & Francis/Routledge 2014), and also a few Chinese translation editions of book chapters from McGraw-Hill Medical Books, including Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine and Family Medicine: Ambulatory Care and Prevention.  He has co-authored over 47 publications in international peer-reviewed journals ranked in the top 10% of their subject categories in the ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR).  Prof WANG has interests in health systems/services research and clinical trials, with a particular focus on primary health care and multimorbidity.

• Primary health care
• Health systems and services research
• Community-based studies on cardiovascular diseases and multimorbidity

Wang HHX, Wang JJ.  Developing Primary Care in China.  In: Griffiths SM, Tang JL, Yeoh EK, eds.  Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health in Asia.  Oxford: Routledge publisher. 2014 April. pp. 584-600.  doi: 10.4324/9781315818719.ch40      

Wong MCS, Wang HHX† (Corresponding author), Kwan MWM, Fong BCY, Chan WM, Zhang DX, Li STS, Yan BPY, Coats AJS, Griffiths SM.  Dietary counselling has no effect on cardiovascular risk factors among Chinese Grade 1 hypertensive patients: a randomized controlled trial.  Eur Heart J 2015; 36(38):2598-607.  (2014 Impact Factor: 15.203)

Wong MCS, Zhang DX, Wang HHX† (Corresponding author).  Rapid emergence of atherosclerosis in Asia: a systematic review of coronary atherosclerotic heart disease epidemiology and implications for prevention and control strategies.  Curr Opin Lipidol 2015; 26(4):257-69.  (2013 Impact Factor: 5.803)

Wang HHX*, Wang JJ*, Wong SYS, Wong MCS, Li FJ, Wang PX, Zhou ZH, Zhu CY, Griffiths SM, Mercer SW†.  Epidemiology of multimorbidity in China and implications for the healthcare system: cross-sectional survey among 162,464 community household residents in southern China. (†Corresponding author)  BMC Med 2014; 12(1):188, 12 pages.  (2014 Impact Factor: 7.356)

Wang HHX*, Wang JJ*, Lawson KD, Wong SYS, Wong MCS, Li FJ, Wang PX, Zhou ZH, Zhu CY, Yeong YQ, Griffiths SM, Mercer SW†.  Relationships of multimorbidity and income with hospital admissions in 3 health care systems. (†Corresponding author)  Ann Fam Med 2015; 13(2):164-7.  (2014 Impact Factor: 5.434; Journal Ranking: 1/ 19 in PRIMARY HEALTH CARE)

Wang HHX, Wong SYS†, Wong MCS, Wei XL, Wang JJ, Li DKT, Tang JL, Gao GY, Griffiths SM.  Patients’ experiences in different models of community health centers in southern China. (†Corresponding author)  Ann Fam Med 2013; 11(6):517-26.  (2014 Impact Factor: 5.434; Journal Ranking: 1/ 19 in PRIMARY HEALTH CARE)

Wang HHX, Wang JJ, Wong SYS†, Wong MCS, Wang JJ, Wei XL, Li DKT, Tang JL, Griffiths SM.  The development of urban community health centres for strengthening primary care in China: a systematic literature review. (†Corresponding author)  Br Med Bull 2015; 116(1):139-53.

Wang HHX, Wong SYS†, Wong MCS, Wang JJ, Wei XL, Li DKT, Tang JL, Griffiths SM.  Attributes of primary care in community health centres in China and implications for equitable care: a cross-sectional measurement of patients’ experiences. (†Corresponding author)  QJM-An Int J Med 2015; 108(7):549-60.

Wang HHX, Wong MCS†, Mok RY, Kwan MWM, Chan WM, Fan CKM, Lee CLS, Griffiths SM.  Factors associated with grade 1 hypertension: implications for hypertension care based on the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) in primary care settings. (†Corresponding author)  BMC Fam Pract 2015; 16:26, 10 pages.

Michal Shani*, Wang HHX*, Wong SYS†, Griffiths SM.  International primary care snapshots: Israel and China. (†Corresponding author)  Br J Gen Pract 2015; 65(634):250-1.

Wong MCS, Wu CHM, Wang HHX† (Corresponding author), Li HW, Hui EMT, Lam AT, Chung RYN, Yip BHK, Morisky DE.  Association between the 8-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-8) score and glycaemic control among Chinese diabetes patients.  J Clin Pharmacol 2015; 55(3):279-87.

Wang HHX, Wang JJ†, Zhou ZH, Wang XW, Xu L.  General practice education and training in southern China: recent development and ongoing challenges under the health care reform. (†Corresponding author)  Malays Fam Physician 2013; 8(3):2-10.

Wang HHX, Wong MCS†, Tang JL, Wang JJ, Griffiths SM.  Primary care-based lifestyle interventions on blood pressure and lipid profiles among Chinese subjects: a meta-analysis.  Circulation 2012; 125(19):e729.  doi: 10.1161/CIR.0b013e31824fcd6b [WOS: 000307009200270]

Wang HHX, Chen XR, Wang JJ, Wang PX, Wen JG, Wang JM, Chen RL, Griffiths SM, Wong MCS.  Association between anemia and acute coronary syndrome among 10,875 Chinese patients hospitalized from 2004 to 2013: a retrospective case-control study.  J Am Coll Cardiol 2016; 67(16_S):S11.  doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2016.03.037

Wong MCS, Kwan MWM, Wang HHX† (Corresponding author), Fong BCY, Chan WM, Zhang DX, Li STS, Lee QKY, Yan BPY, Coats AJS, Griffiths SM.  Dietary counselling with the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet for Chinese patients with grade 1 hypertension: a parallel-group, randomised controlled trial.  Lancet 2015; 386(Suppl 1):S8.  doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00586-3 

Wang HHX*, Wang JJ*, Wong SYS, Wong MCS, Li FJ, Wang PX, Zhou ZH, Zhu CY, Griffiths SM, Mercer SW†.   Effect of employment and social medical insurance on hospital admissions for people living with multimorbidity in China: analysis of a large community household survey. (†Corresponding author)  Lancet 2015; 386(Suppl 1):S19.  doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00597-8

Wang HHX*, Wang JJ*, Wong SYS†, Wong MCS, Wei XL, Li DKT, Tang JL, Griffiths SM.  Patients’ experiences in community health centres under the health-care reform: research findings from a cross-sectional study using the Primary Care Assessment Tool in China. (†Corresponding author)  Lancet 2015; 386(Suppl 1):S69.  doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00650-9