Professor Greta Tam graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong in 2010, after matriculating at the University of Oxford to study biochemistry. She obtained her masters in global health at the University of California, San Francisco.  She is currently an associate fellow of the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine and a diplomate member of the Faculty of Public Health, UK.  In 2014, she was awarded the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine Training and Research Scholarship to participate in Harvard University’s yearlong Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Program.

She has a long-standing interest in global health, particularly in infectious diseases.  She has worked at the Shanghai Medical Children’s centre, Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in New Delhi, Grameen Bank in Dhaka as well as spending time at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh. Her master’s thesis was on anti-malarial drug resistance in Ugandan children.  With a passion in Humanitarian related works, she worked under the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC) as team doctor on field -based trips, consultant for the Oxford online disaster courses and a case study on Bhutan’s fire.

Professor Tam joined the School of Public Health and Primary Care under the Division of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care in December 2013.