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A smoking cessation clinic in the Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital in Beijing opens, which is a collaborative project of the School (Professor TH Lam, Department of Nursing Studies (Professor SSC Chan) and the Institute of Geriatrics (Professor Y He) of the hospital. |
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| The School, together with the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health organises a mass rally to support the proposal from the Financial Secretary of the HKSAR Government to raise tobacco tax by 50%. About 500 people join, including medical, nursing, Chinese medicine, postgraduate students, staff and family members. |
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| Publishes first of a series of papers querying whether moderate alcohol use has any protective effect in Chinese people (Dr CM Schooling, Professor GM Leung et al.) |
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| The school's research team on infectious diseases (Dr BJ Cowling, Dr S Riley, Dr JT Wu) are key investigators in the NIGMS/NIH MIDAS Harvard Centre for Communicable Disease Dynamics (awarded to Professor M Lipsitch, Harvard School of Public Health) |
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| Dr BJ Cowling is awarded two large grants by the RFCID (commissioned) and MedImmune, Inc. for studies in households and schools respectively of the direct and indirect benefits of influenza vaccination. Invited to join the Influenza Response Group convened by the Food and Health Bureau to advise the government on the most effective public health response to pandemic influenza (Professor TH Lam, Dr JT Wu, Dr BJ Cowling, Dr S Riley) |
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| Publishes the first study indicating that facemasks and hand hygiene protect against influenza transmission in Annals of Internal Medicine (Dr BJ Cowling, Professor GM Leung et al.) |
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| Awarded 9 research grants by Research Fund for the Control of Infectious Diseases totalling $13.8 million to study influenza (PI: Dr BJ Cowling, Dr S Riley, Dr JT Wu, Dr CM Wong) and tuberculosis (Dr EHY Lau). |
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| For the academic year 2009-2010, 130 students enroll in the Master of Public Health programmes (including 5 Postgraduate Diploma and 4 Postgraduate Certificate students). Of these, 85 (of 133 applicants) students are registered into the programme in September 2009 |
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| In September 2009, 34 Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy students are registered in the research postgraduate programme |
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| Professor TH Lam is re-appointed as Director of Public Health Research Centre and appointed as Director of School of Public Health |
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2008 |
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Professor GM Leung goes on leave of absence to take up appointment as Hong Kong 's first Undersecretary for Food and Health. |
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| Professor TH Lam is elected Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine |
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| Dr JM Johnston is conferred Fellowship of the UK Faculty of Public Health |
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Receives a donation of $10 million from Dr. Ron Zimmern for an endowed professorship to commemorate his grandfather; Professor TH Lam is appointed as Sir Robert Kotewall Professor in Public Health |
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Professor JSM Peiris of Department of Microbiology is awarded by University Grants Council an Area of Excellence research programme on influenza and our team (Professor GM Leung, Dr BJ Cowling, Dr S Riley, Dr JT Wu, Dr CM Wong et al.) is responsible for the theme of ¡¥Epidemiology, field studies and modeling of human and animal influenza'. |
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Dr S Riley is awarded a large grant by the NIH Fogarty Centre for a study investigating influenza transmission dynamics in southern China . |
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Publishes first studies providing epidemiological evidence of epigenetic influences on human health and human capital (Dr CM Schooling, Professor GM Leung et al.). |
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Initiates a novel research program to delineate the impact of rapid economic development on population health (Professor GM Leung, Dr IOL Wong, Dr M Heys, Dr CM Schooling). |
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Reports first costing of health effects of air pollution in the Pearl River Delta following a similar costing for the Hong Kong SAR (Professor SM McGhee, Professor AJ Hedley, Dr CM Wong et al. with Civic Exchange, Ms C Loh, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong , Professor TW Wong). |
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Launches the Hedley Environmental Index (Dr HK Lai, Professor SM McGhee and Dr CM Wong) in collaboration with Civic Exchange (Ms C Loh and Mr M Kilburn), named in honour of Professor AJ Hedley for his contribution to environmental health research in Hong Kong . |
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A launch ceremony of the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) Family Project and the first symposium on family health, happiness and harmony are held. Five pilot randomized controlled trials on parenting, hope stories and pregnant women start, with additional funding from HKJC and the School (Professor SM Stewart and Ms CS Fabrizio) collaborating with HKU Departments of Nursing Studies and Psychology, Caritas, Family Welfare Society, Sheng Kung Hui, Hong Kong Christian Service, and Family Health Service of Department of Health; Cohort pilot study starts (Professor GM Leung and Mr PTKWong). |
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Establishes a satellite office at the Cyberport to accommodate the Hong Kong Jockey Club Family Project and other rapidly expanding research programmes. |
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2007 |
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HKSAR Government. Professor AJ Hedley and Dr SM McGhee receive Most Outstanding Contribution Award (Public Health) for research from the Food and Health Bureau, HKSAR Government. |
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Publishes first of a series of papers indicating that pubertal exposures may underlie the epidemic of ischaemic heart disease in men that emerges with economic development (Dr CM Schooling, Professor GM Leung et al.). |
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Dr JM Johnston receives Outstanding Presentation Award in the Fourth Congress of the Asian Medical Education Association at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand by the Asian Medical Education Association. |
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Professor TH Lam, Professor GM Leung and Dr CM Wong receive three Excellent Research Awards from the Food and Health Bureau, HKSAR Government. |
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Dr WWT Lam receives Hiroomi Kawano New Investigator Award from the International Psycho-oncology Society and is co-investigator (with Professor R Fielding), with a large donation from the Hong Kong Cancer Fund, to study treatment decision making in Chinese women with breast cancer.
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Professor GM Leung is appointed as Editor, Journal of Public Health.
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Professor GM Leung receives Young Alumni Award of Merit from the University of Western Ontario.
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Publishes in Science on large-scale spatial-transmission models of infectious disease (Dr S Riley).
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Dr JTK Wu receives Most Promising Young Researcher Award from the Food and Health Bureau, HKSAR Government.
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Dr JM Johnston is appointed as Deputy Head (Education).
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Invited by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charity Trust to undertake The Family Project: A Jockey Club Initiative for a Harmonious Society to promote family health, happiness and harmony. Of the donation of $250 million, $100 million is provided for the first three years to the School to (a) establish a large family cohort, (b) conduct intervention studies with NGO partners and (c) conduct public education and health communication (Professor TH Lam, Professor SSC Chan, Professor GM Leung, Professor SM Stewart, et al.).
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Dr ASM Abdullah, Professor TH Lam, Professor AJ Hedley and Dr SSC Chan receive an outstanding Health Promotion Project Award from Health, Welfare and Food Bureau for the Project ¡§Establishment of a pilot anti-smoking telephone hotline for persons who want to quit or to ask questions about smoking and health¡¨. |
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Professor GM Leung is elected Vice President of the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine (until 2008). |
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Professor GM Leung co-edits (with Professor John Bacon-Shone) and publishes Hong Kong 's Health System: Reflections, Perspectives and Visions (568pp). |
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Professor GM Leung is awarded a landmark grant by the US CDC for a controlled trial of masks and hand hygiene for reducing influenza transmission, with results published in Annals of Internal Medicine 2009.
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The Bureau of Health of Guangzhou starts to sponsor staff members of institutions under the Bureau to study the School's MPH course. Up to 2009, about 28 students are sponsored. |
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Publishes the first comprehensive study on the cost of tobacco-related disease in Hong Kong in Tobacco Control, which is subsequently used to underpin discussion of the need for smoke-free legislation (Dr SMMcGhee, Dr LM Ho et al. with Professor HM Lapsley, University of Queensland , Australia ). |
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Publishes the first evidence in China based on body load of nicotine metabolites, in Toxicological Science, that secondhand smoke is damaging the health of catering workers (Professor AJ Hedley, Dr SM McGhee et al. with Mr J Repace, USA). |
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A smoking cessation clinic in the Guangzhou 12th Hospital opens, which is our first clinic in the Mainland and a collaborative project of the School (Professor TH Lam, Professor SSC Chan of Department of Nursing, Dr CQ Jiang of the hospital). A second clinic in the Guangzhou Chest Hospital starts in 2008. |
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Publishes evidence that obesity is clearly, positively associated with mortality in healthy older Chinese people, and that any apparent protective effect of obesity in older people is due to reverse causality induced by ill-health in Archives of Internal Medicine (Dr CM Schooling, Dr GM Leung et al.). |
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World Health Organisation publishes ¡§WHO Air quality guidelines for particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide, Global update 2005, Summary of risk assessment¡¨. Of the 16 references from the world's literature cited in the executive summary, two are from the School of Public Health (Hedley AJ et al., Lancet 2002; Wong CM et al., Environmental Health Perspective 2002).
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Pan-Asian surveys on Avian Influenza and live animal market risk are launched in collaboration with Hanoi School of Public Health in Vietnam , Chulalongkorn University in Thailand and No12. People's Hospital in Guangzhou (Professor R Fielding, Dr WWT Lam, Dr LV Ahn, Dr CQ Jiang, Professor C Sitthi-amorn). |
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Professor AJ Hedley is elected President of the International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Disease (ISPTID). First Asia Pacific region Annual Conference of the ISPTID is held in Hong Kong (Organisers: Professor AJ Hedley, Professor TH Lam and Dr SSC Chan, Department of Nursing Studies and Professor YH Samaranayake, Faculty of Dentistry). Asia Pacific Region Annual Conference of the ISPTID. |
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Professor AJ Hedley is conferred Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine, and Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators. |
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Professor TH Lam is appointed as Justice of Peace. |
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Dr GM Leung is awarded University Teaching Fellowship by the University of Hong Kong . |
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The HKU University Research Committee (URC) recognizes public health as one of the 21 strategic research themes of the University and Professor TH Lam is appointed as coordinator/convener. |
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With funding from URC Strategic Research Theme on Public Health, the School starts a Student Obesity Surveillance project (Dr SY Ho), which has included more than 35000 secondary students in Hong Kong, and other projects on physical activity in collaboration with Institute of Human Performance (Dr DJ Macfarlane, Dr AM McManus et al.). |
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Publishes the first report on mortality due to influenza in a region with a warm climate in Clinical Infectious Diseases (Dr CM Wong, Mr KP Chan and Professor AJ Hedley, et al.; with Professor JSM Peiris of Department of Microbiology).
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Publishes the first report world-wide to demonstrate dose-response relationship of risk of death from stroke after exposure to second hand smoke in British Medical Journal (Dr SM McGhee, Dr SY Ho, Dr M Schooling, et al., with Professor R Peto of Oxford University and Dr KH Mak of Department of Health). The study provides critical support for legislation on smoke-free policies in workplaces, including restaurants and bars, and other public places. |
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The University of Hong Kong approves the establishment of the School of Public Health within the Faculty of Medicine, and the Public Health Research Centre is established as one of the 5 research centers in the Faculty of Medicine (Interim Director of Public Health Research Centre: Professor TH Lam, Deputy Director: Professor SSC Chan, Department of Nursing Studies). |
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Master of Public Health (MPH) with 3 themes and 8 concentration streams is established as a separate programme from Master of Medical Sciences. |
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Receives a large commissioned grant from the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau for capacity building on infectious disease epidemiology and mathematical modeling (Dr GM Leung et al.). |
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Invited and funded by the US Health Effects Institute and takes a leading role in a multi-city collaborative Public health and Air Pollution in Asia (PAPA) project (Dr CM Wong, Dr TQ Thach, Professor AJ Hedley et al.). The project has 3 papers published in Environmental Health Perspectives. |
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| Collaborates with Imperial College London on the response to SARS resulting in several high-impact papers including highly cited papers in Science (Dr S Riley, Professor AJ Hedley, Dr GM Leung et al.) and The Lancet (Dr C Donnelly, Professor AJ Hedley, Dr GM Leung et al.). |
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| Conducts studies on community psycho-behavioural responses to the 2003 SARS epidemic, with papers on the situation in Hong Kong and in comparison with Singapore published in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (2003), Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology and Clinical Infectious Diseases (2004) (Dr GM Leung et al.). |
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| Provides the first worldwide demonstration of the effectiveness of computer-assisted clinical decision support in student learning and the first randomised controlled trial in medical education in Hong Kong , with papers published in British Medical Journal and Medical Education (Dr GM Leung, Dr JM Johnston, et al.). |
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| Creates the first fully comprehensive integrated database for SARS in Hong Kong and then Asia, for collaborative research with Imperial College London, Department of Health, Hospital Authority, Health, Welfare and Food Bureau, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Dr GM Leung and Professor AJ Hedley, et al.). |
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| Develops and maintains the first Domestic Health Accounts in health financing for the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau in Hong Kong (Dr GM Leung, Mr KYK Tin). |
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| Dr GM Leung is awarded Sir Patrick Manson Gold Medal for his MD thesis by the University of Hong Kong . |
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| Professor TH Lam is appointed Co-chair of Grant Review Board of the Research Council of the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau (till 2009). |
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| Collaborates with Guangzhou 12th Hospital (Dr CQ Jiang) and Birmingham University (Professor KK Cheng) in establishing the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study, with 30,000 subjects recruited with liquid nitrogen storage of plasma and live white cells. There are already 26 publications (Professor TH Lam, Dr GN Thomas, Dr CM Schooling, Dr GM Leung, Professor KK Cheng and Dr CQ Jiang et al.). |
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2002 |
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| Establishes The Centre for Psycho-Oncological Research & Teaching with 27 papers on breast cancer in Chinese populations published between 2002-2009 (Dr R Fielding, Dr WWT Lam, et al.). |
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Provides the first demonstration worldwide of the independent effects of air pollutants on deaths from cardiopulmonary disease and benefits of interventions, published in the Lancet (Professor AJ Hedley, Dr CM Wong, Dr TQ Thach, et al. with Professor HR Anderson of St George's Hospital Medical School ). |
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Professor TH Lam is awarded Outstanding Researcher Award 2001-02 by the University of Hong Kong . |
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Conducts the first study on dioxins and PCBs in breast milk in Hong Kong, jointly with Departments of Paediatrics and Community Medicine in Chinese University of Hong Kong, in a World Health Organisation collaborative study (Professor AJ Hedley, Ms LL Hui with Professor EAS Nelson and Professor TW Wong of Chinese University of Hong Kong ). |
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Dr GM Leung receives Faculty Teaching Medal from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong . |
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Moves to the new William MW Mong Building, Faculty of Medicine. |
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Commissioned by the Department of Health to conduct the first Population Health Survey 2003/4, and the report is published in 2005 (Professor TH Lam and Dr GM Leung, and Dr LY Tse of Department of Health and Mr HK Yip of Policy 21). |
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| Professor TH Lam is awarded University Teaching Fellowship 1999-2000 and Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award 2000-01 by the University of Hong Kong . |
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Initiates a collaborative study with the Elderly Health Services of the Department of Health (Dr WM Chan) and establishes a cohort of over 60,000 subjects to study lifestyle factors, hospitalization and mortality (Professor TH Lam, Dr GM Leung, Dr SM McGhee, Dr CM Schooling, et al.). |
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Initiates a series of studies on the ecology of health care, social determinants of health, and health service utilization (Dr GM Leung, Dr JM Johnston, Dr SM McGhee, Ms IOL Wong et al.) that are widely referenced in the ongoing health care reform debate. |
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Dr WWT Lam is awarded the Hong Kong Cancer Fund Scholarship in Psycho-oncology, and Young Investigator Award at the HK International Cancer Congress, 2001. |
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Dr CM Wong is elected Honorary Member by Distinction, of the Faculty of Public HealthMedicine, Royal College of Physicians, UK. |
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Professor TH Lam is appointed as Head of Department.
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Professor AJ Hedley is awarded Bronze Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong SAR Government. |
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Establishes the first public sector Smoking Cessation Health Centre jointly with Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health - a model for further large scale treatment strategies, and the first telephone Quitline, with 3 papers published in Journal of Public Health (2004), Tobacco Control (2004) and Psychopharmacology (2005). (Dr ASM Abdullah, Professor TH Lam, Professor AJ Hedley, et al. with Dr SSC Chan of Department of Nursing Studies). |
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Professor TH Lam is awarded China Tobacco Control Award by Chinese Association on Smoking and Health.
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Conducts a series of studies on breast cancer epidemiology, with the first paper on screening mammography in Asia published in American Journal of Public Health (Dr GM Leung, Dr TQ Thach, Professor TH Lam, Professor AJ Hedley et al.) and the most recent papers are published in Journal of Clinical Oncology (with a leading editorial), Cancer, International Journal of Cancer and Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (Professor GM Leung, Ms IOL Wong, Ms P Woo, et al.). |
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These results provide the evidence base for the recommendation on breast cancer screening for the Department of Health 2004 Report of Cancer Expert Working Group on Cancer Prevention and Screening (Chairman: Professor TH Lam, 2002- 2010). |
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Professor AJ Hedley is awarded World Health Organisation Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Public Health, presented in Macao SAR by Dr Shigeru Omi, Regional Director of WHO Western Pacific. |
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Public Health is introduced as a specialised concentration stream under Master of Medical Science of the Faculty of Medicine with the first admission of 8 students.
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Professor TH Lam is awarded a Commemorative Certificate and Medal by the World Health Organisation, in Rio de Janeiro , on achievement worthy of international recognition in promoting the concept of tobacco-free societies. |
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Professor AJ Hedley is appointed as Justice of Peace. |
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1997 |
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Starts a new MBBS curriculum with new undergraduate teaching programmes of Evidence Based Practice, Patient Care (Feel-link) Project, Patient Care (Mother Baby) Project, TB clerkship, Problem Based Public Health, Health Research Project, and Smoking Cessation for MBBS Year 1 to 4. |
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| Organizes the first training programme in public health medicine in collaboration with Department of Health for professional development in Public Health (Professor AJ Hedley). |
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| Professor AJ Hedley is appointed as Chairman of the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health (till 2002). |
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| Conducts the first study on smoking and mortality in Hong Kong, with the result showing that smoking killed 5720 people in 1998, which is published in British Medical Journal in 2001 with wide local and international media coverage (Professor TH Lam, Dr SY Ho, et al. with Professor R Peto of Oxford University and Dr KH Mak of Department of Health). |
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| Dr R Fielding is awarded University Teaching Fellowship 1996-97 by the University of Hong Kong . |
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| Starts the first birth cohort study in Hong Kong, with 13 papers concerning infant growth, lifestyle and health published in Paediatrics, Birth, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Archives of Diseases of Children, Social Science and Medicine, Epidemiology, Archives of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine, International Journal of Epidemiology (Dr GM Leung, Dr LM Ho, Professor TH Lam, Dr CM Schooling et al.). |
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| Professor TH Lam is elected as President of Hong Kong College of Community Medicine (till 2001). |
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| Publishes the first evidence from a collaborative study with the Fourth Military University in Xi'an in China that about half of the 300 million smokers in China will die from smoking-related diseases in Journal of the American Medical Association (Professor TH Lam, and Professor Y He from Xi'an ). |
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Dr R Fielding and Dr SM McGhee are elected Honorary Members by Distinction, of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Physicians, UK. |
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Publishes the first health economic study on the economics of shared-care in Pharmacoeconomics (Dr SM McGhee, Professor AJ Hedley). |
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1995 |
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Dr Richard Fielding wins British Medical Association Medical Book of the Year award and first prize in the Basis of Medicine category for ¡§Clinical Communication Skills¡¨. |
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Starts the first Hong Kong Cardiovascular Risk Factor Prevalence Study in collaboration with Clinical Biochemistry Unit (Prof ED Janus, Dr TH Lam et al.), which has yielded prevalence data for hypertension and diabetes and numerous papers, and the cohort is being followed up. |
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1994 |
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Moves to the Patrick Manson Building . |
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| Wins Science Prize for Environmental Research, from Friends of the Earth on air pollution studies in children in Kwai Tsing and Southern Districts, presented to Professor AJ Hedley, Dr SG Ong, Dr CM Wong, et al. by Governor Christopher Patten. |
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| Publishes the first report on passive smoking at work as a risk factor for coronary heart disease in British Medical Journal (Dr Y He, Dr TH Lam, et al.). |
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| Conducts the first study on youth smoking, sponsored by Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health, which shows that respiratory symptoms are associated with active and passive smoking, and results are published in 1998 in the International Journal of Epidemiology (Dr TH Lam, Miss SF Chung et al.). |
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| Conducts the first randomised controlled trial of smoking cessation in Hong Kong, with results presented in the 10 th World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Beijing in 1997 (Dr CL Betson, Dr TH Lam, et al. with Dr TWH Chung of the Department of Health). |
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1993 |
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Instrumental in the setting up of the Government's Health Services Research Fund and promotes health services research (Professor AJ Hedley is appointed as Chairman of Expert Committee on Grant Applications and Awards till 2003). |
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| Patient Care Project is introduced into MBBS curriculum; a new problem-based teaching format is introduced and MBBS 1 and II programmes are re-titled as Health, Behaviour & Medical Care I & II. |
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1992 |
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Publishes for the first time a paper in The Lancet on the association of pickled vegetables with oesophageal cancer in Hong Kong (Dr KK Cheng, Dr TH Lam, with Professor NE Day and Dr SW Duffy of Cambridge University and Dr M Fox and Professor J Wong of Department of Surgery). |
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Initiates and contributes to the first Hong Kong Public Health Report on coronary heart disease and lung cancer and the report is published by the Department of Health in 1994 (Prof AJ Hedley, Dr TH Lam et al.). |
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1991 |
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Professor AJ Hedley is elected Chief Censor, Hong Kong College of Community Medicine (till 1995). |
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1990 |
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Holds the first international Hong Kong (Asia-Pacific) Medical Informatics Conference and promotes the concept of health services research (Professor AJ Hedley, Dr CM Wong with Dr SM McGhee from University of Glasgow and Dr D Spiegelhalter from MRC Biostatistics Unit Cambridge and Dr CP Wong of the Hong Kong Society for Medical Informatics). |
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Initiates the first series of consultancy reports on analyses of operations of General and Specialist Outpatient Departments, and Accident and Emergency Departments, including choices and utilisation of health and medical care in the general population and mothers and infants, providing information for evaluation and policy making. (Professor AJ Hedley, Dr KK Cheng, Dr GK Pei, Ms J Johnston Ms L Daniel, Dr R Fielding et al., in collaboration with Department of Health and Hospital Authority). |
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1989 |
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Pioneers research on medical informatics (Professor AJ Hedley). |
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First study on air pollution and health in Hong Kong starts, with the first paper showing adverse respiratory health effects in children (a) due to air pollution published in 1991 (The Science of the Total Environment, Dr SG Ong, Dr CM Wong, et al.) and (b) due to passive smoking, published in 1996 (International Journal of Epidemiology, Dr J Peters, Professor AJ Hedley, et al.). This is the first demonstration in Asia of the health benefits in children of air quality improvement. |
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1987 |
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Professor AJ Hedley (Henry Mechan Chair of Public Health University of Glasgow) is appointed as Chair of Community Medicine and Head of Department. |
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Dr Richard Fielding is appointed as Head of Behavioural Sciences Unit. |
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1982 |
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First telephone morbidity survey in Hong Kong starts, with results comparable to the General Household Survey, published in Community Medicine in 1988. (Dr TH Lam and Professor JWL Kleevens, et al.). |
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1980 |
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Dr JWL Kleevens is appointed as Head of Department and in 1983 becomes Chair of Community Medicine (till 1987). |
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1978 |
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Behavioural Sciences Unit is established under the Department. Mr J Anderson, a medical sociologist, is appointed as Head of Unit. |
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1976 |
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First major research project starts jointly with Department of Pathology, with first paper on the association of smoking and lung cancer in Hong Kong published in British Journal of Cancer in 1979 (Professor MJ Colbourne, et al. with Dr WC Chan of Department of Pathology). |
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1974 |
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Professor MJ Colbourne is appointed as Head of Department (till 1980).
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine is changed to Department of Community Medicine.
The Chair is renamed as Professor of Community Medicine.
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Professor PH Teng is appointed full-time professor after retirement from government services (till 1974).
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Moves to Li Shu Fan Building .
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Department of Social Medicine is renamed as Department of Social and Preventive Medicine;
The Chair is renamed as Professor of Preventive Medicine.
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Dr PH Teng, Director of Medical and Health Services (1963-70), is appointed as Professor of Social Medicine on a part-time basis. |
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1952 |
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Chair of Social Medicine is held on a part-time basis by Director of Medical and Health Services.
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Dr KC Yeo, Director of Medical and Health Services, is appointed as Chair of Social Medicine (till 1957). |
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Department of Social Medicine is established.
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Dr TS Sze is appointed as Professor of Social Medicine (till 1952). |
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Professor NC McLeod, Deputy Director of Medical and Health Services, is appointed as Part-time Chair of Public Health (till 1945).
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Ho Kam Tong Prize in Public Health (later changed to Community Medicine) is established with a donation from Mr Ho Kam Tong. |
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Dr KC Yeo is appointed as Lecturer in Public Health (till 1938). |
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Dr TF Kennedy is appointed as Lecturer in Public Health (till 1936).
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Dr RA Anderson is appointed as Lecturer in Public Health (till 1935).
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Dr GH Thomas, Government Medical Officer, is appointed as Lecturer in Tropical Medicine (till 1935).
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Dr JT Smalley, Medical Officer of Health, is appointed as Acting Lecturer in Hygiene (till 1923). |
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Dr WJ Woodman, Assistant Medical Officer of Health of Sanitary Department of the Hong Kong Government is appointed as Lecturer in Hygiene (till 1923).
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Dr WW Pearse is appointed as Lecturer in Public Health of the Hong Kong College of Medicine and is transferred to Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong as Lecturer in Public Health from 1912-21.
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Dr FW Clark (Dean 1897-1915) is appointed as Lecturer in Hygiene (till 1906) of the Hong Kong College of Medicine and is transferred to the University of Hong Kong and becomes the first Dean of the Faculty of Medicine (1912-1915).
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Sun Yat-sen, one of the first students of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, sits the professional examination on public health.
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The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese is inaugurated. |
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Dr GP Jordan (Pro-Vice-Chancellor [1913-1921], Vice-Chancellor [Acting] [1918-1921]) and Mr H McCallum are responsible for teaching public health in the third year of the 5-year course of studies in the College. |
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