Site map MHRN index What's new Forthcoming seminars Background Vision & Mission Objectives Membership Professor SP Chow Dr. J Bacon-Shone Professor CLW Chan Dr. SSC Chan Dr. SM McGhee Dr. WS Chan Professor I Chi Dr. GM Leung Mr HK Yip Dr. PSF Yip Events Forthcoming seminars Smoking - Working with Resistance to Change and Hard Core Smokers Past seminars Maximising the therapeutic impact of drugs for malaria – A collaborative approach involving statisticians, clinicians, pharmacologists and mathematicians The International Alcohol Control Study (IAC): Evaluating the impact of alcohol policies Evaluation of Family-based Prevention Programs: The Importance of Small Theory Once Upon a Time......Can We Return to a Smokefree World? Health Economic Assessment of Service Level Interventions Smoking cessation in New Zealand: Innovations in policy, practice and research Health hazards from exposure to environmental toxic substances: from lung cancer to genetic selection Case-control studies of acute myeloid leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoid neoplasms in Shanghai: Environmental and occupational risk factors by subtypes of the WHO classification Public Health Practice in the Era of Genomic Medicine & Applications and Implications of Whole Genome Analysis for Health Cardiovascular Diseases: Burden, Challenges and Perspectives in China Achieving Millennium Development Goals' Target on Child Mortality by 2015 - Wishful thinking, or likely outcome? Spirituality, meaning and hope among cancer patients & Employment and Work-Related Aspects in Cancer Survivorship How Full is Our Epidemiological Toolkit & The Use of Microsimulation Modeling of Colorectal Cancer to Inform Health Policy Nurses and Tobacco Control: A program of research Clinical Epidemiology of Childhood Obesity Biomass Smoke as a Respiratory Hazard Lessons from Cambodian research-based interventions to reduce HIV/AIDS, alcohol overuse, illiteracy, trafficking, poverty and violence Modelling infectious disease spread via individual-level models Understanding the Psychosocial Needs of Asian Americans Breast Cancer Survivors Modelling infectious disease spread via individual-level models Variation in Retention by Psychosocial Treatment Condition in Buprenorphine Medical Management for Opioid Dependence Non-pharmacological Treatment Alternatives for Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Hospital Outcomes Research: Towards Evidence-Based Local and National Policy for Deepening Nurse Shortages Transferring patient-reported outcomes from clinical research to clinical practice: Possibilities and challenges Towards ‘Healthier’ Medical News Constructing the effect of an alternative intervention strategy on historic epidemics Research Findings on Airborne Particulate Matter from the Southern California Particle Center Addressing air pollution at multiple scales in Canada Health Effects of Air Pollution: from London to Beijing Dissonance Induction Techniques in Health-Related Interventions A Bayesian Model for Evaluating Influenza Antiviral Efficacy in Household Studies with Asymptomatic Infections The Hong Kong Student Obesity Surveillance (HKSOS) Project: main findings, challenges and opportunities Prophylaxis of travellers' diarrhea – an examination of existing evidence Smoking cessation policy, practice and research: A perspective from Aotearoa New Zealand Measuring Efficiency in Health Services: Why? How? How well? Three interventions to control the non-communicable disease epidemic A Clinical Informatician's experiences in the international implementation of clinical information management systems Adolescent Depression: Research to Practice Air Pollution and Mortality: Historial Prespectives Health in Megacities Hong Kong’s Health Financing Reform Control of Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza: Interrelated Challenges Using Persuasion Principles to Prevent Eating and Weight Disturbances Implementation and 6-month outcomes of a Primary Care/ Internet Based Adolescent Depression Prevention Intervention (CATCHIT) Causal Thinking and Explanations in Population Health Occupational Health Surveillance in China Paying for Performance: Experience in UK General Practice Death and Marriage. Conventional Wisdom and Unsolved Puzzles Supportive care: From the bench to the bedside Cardiac rehabilitation: home- or hospital-based? Implementing HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment in Two Thai Prisons: Challenges and Opportunities How Primary Care Improves Public Health – Building on the example of Dr Julian Tudor Hart Cardiovascular Care in Canada vs. the United States: Which country provides better care? Universal risk factors for multifactorial diseases: The LifeLines study The migration of health professionals: can or should it be managed? Patient Characteristics and Hospital Quality for Colorectal Cancer Surgery Compiling evidence on genetic predisposition to disease: the Human Genome Epidemiology Network An introduction to systematic reviews and meta-analysis Healthy Weight and Regular Exercise: The Keys to Longevity? Influenza- Associated morality in tropical Singapore International Symposium: Hong Kong's Health System: Reflections, Perspectives and Visions Tumours in ancient Egypt: linking epidemiology in the past and present The Built Environment as Health Enabler or Disabler: Evaluating Causation Childhood depression How WTO TRIPS Impacts Access to Essential Medicines: A Focus on China Occult Help-Seeking in Medical Settings Prior to Suicide Measuring the effectiveness of Community Based Health Promotion Interventions From Ottawa to Bangkok Building capacity for mathematical modelling of infectious disease: progress in Australia and in opportunities through Universitas 21* Emergency Treatment Response and Real-Time Staff Allocation for Bioterrorism & Infectious Disease Outbreak Building a Culture of Quality Interventions to increase cancer prevention in economically and medically at-risk groups Developing a National Public Health Policy Canadian Implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control by Professor Richard Stanwick Appraising Health Technology in England and Wales - the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) way Forum on "The Future of Hong Kong's Health System" There is no future in disease surveillance (without modelling) Market forces: A new era of nursing professionalisation? An Academic Exchange Seminar on Options of Health Care Financing A seminar on Medical Savings Accounts in Singapore: How much is adequate? Emerging involvement of civil society in the campaign against HIV/AIDS in Mainland China Screening for chlamydia trachomatis Shifting Policy and Practice in Acute Care: Restraint Free Care for Hospitalized Elders Health Care Financing Academic Exchange Links between Depression and Substance Use in Adolescents by Professor Uma Roa Leveraging a Program of Research to Inform: Education, Clinical Practice, and Health Care Policy by Professor Linda P Brown Canada's Health Care System; the Relevance of Recent Research for H.K. Public Health Threats, Challenges and Triumphs in Asia by Professor Barry R Bloom Joint HKU-HKTDC Conference on Exporting Hong Kong's Medical and Health Services Joint HKU/CUHK/CPU Academic Seminar on 'After SARS: Education and Research Agenda for the Future' Interdisciplinary Research in Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Epidemic Outbreak Analysis by Professor Roy Anderson Violence - A Public Health Perspective by Dr TW Wong Longer Life and Better Health: A Challenge for All the Low Mortality Countries Mental Health Effects of Intimate Partner Violence Across Cultures: A Coherent Mechanism for Suicidality Re-invigorating the Hong Kong Health Care System Health Care Challenges: An Actuarial Perspective Ageing Societies and Nursing Workforce: Age, Chronicity, and Unmet Need The growing burden of chronic illness in Asia and the pressure on government budgets Are new health insurance and savings schemes inevitable in Hong Kong? Health targets for HK by Dr Geoffrey Lieu Third International Symposium of the Asian and Pacific Parkinson's Disease Association - "A Partnership with our Community" Lunchtime Symposium- "Towards an evidence-based research agenda for health policy formulation in Hong Kong" Health Economics Seminar - "Consistency in performance evaluation reports and medical records" Public health in the era of the Internet The Role of Markets in Health Care Building Seamless Health Care Systems - Recent Health Care Reforms in Britain and Singapore Tobacco and Other Drugs: Counting the Cost Global Public Goods for Health: Rhetoric or Substance? Executive Training Programme East West Center's New Generation Seminar: Health Policy Studies for Greater China Public Health Crisis - Management Executive Training Programme HKU-Harvard Executive Programme on "Reforming China's Rural Health Care System" Joint HKU-Harvard Executive Programme in Health Sector Reform & Sustainable Financing Memorandum of Collaboration Signing Ceremony Services Publication Newsletter Issue 1 The challenge of chronic conditions in Hong Kong Useful links Contact us Site map Site search [Home] [What's new] [Background] [Vision & Mission] [Objectives] [Membership] [Events] [Services] [Newsletter] [Useful Links] [Staff Corner] [Contact Us] [Site Map]