Events

2019
Roundtable: How to promote health and development that fosters inclusivity and reduces inequity? on 26 September 2019
SPH Seminar: "Studying Infection and Immunity to Tackle Unmet Needs of Human and Animal Infectious Diseases" on 20 September 2019
SPH Seminar: " Host interactions and pathogenesis of emerging human viruses: Zika and Influenza in focus" on 9 September 2019
SPH Seminar: "Promoting motorcycle helmet use in Thailand" on 3 September 2019
SPH Seminar: "Field Studies of Infectious Bioaeorosols" on 23 July 2019
SPH Seminar: "Genomics in antimicrobial resistance and infectious disease transmission" on 22 July 2019
SPH Seminar: "Modeling disease spread using multi-dimensional Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) models " on 26 June 2019
“Mechanism of Virus Entry and Development of Antivirals” - A Scientific Lecture by Professor George F. Gao on 13 June 2019
“70 Years of Disease Control and Prevention in China” - A Public Lecture by Professor George F. Gao on 14 June 2019
SPH Seminar: "Managing Shocks in Singapore’s Ageing and Retirement Arrangements" on 1 April 2019
Roundtable Series with Movers and Shakers in Global Health: A Dialogue with Professor Judith Mackay on Commercial Influences on Health on 20 March 2019
SPH Seminar: "Blockchain and the evolution of institutional technologies" on 11 March 2019
Roundtable Series with Movers and Shakers in Global Health: A Dialogue with Professor Barry Bloom on 16 January 2019

2018
SPH Seminar: "Can we adequately measure financial protection target and progress towards Universal Health Coverage? A discussion of the limitations of current indicators" on 10 December 2018
SPH Seminar: "Ending Preventable Child Deaths: Strategies for Survival" on 10 December 2018
SPH Seminar: "Microcirculatory Responses to Exercises and Mechanical Properties of Skeletal Muscles and Tendons in Individuals with and without Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus – Associations with Clinical Tests" on 15 November 2018
Roundtable: Why global health AND development? on 8 November 2018
Roundtable Series with Movers and Shakers in Global Health: A Dialogue with Dr Mellissa Withers on 8 October 2018
SPH Seminar: "New opportunities and possibilities for physical activity epidemiology research" on 24 September 2018
Roundtable Series with Movers and Shakers in Global Health: A Dialogue with Dr Marc Sprenger on 3 September 2018
HKU Summer Institute: Global Health and Development Leadership Training Camp (29 July – 1 August 2018)
SPH Seminar: "Roles of Eosinophils in Airway Inflammation & Carcinogenesis" on 17 July 2018
SPH Seminar: "Balancing the risks of air pollution and physical inactivity" on 12 July 2018
Seminar by Theme-based Research Scheme & Centre of Influenza Research on 28 June 2018
Symposium on Sexual Violence in Asia on 1-2 June 2018
Global Health Histories Seminar 106 - 'Strategies of Anti-Panic: A New Approach to Epidemic Panic' on 18 May 2018
Seminar by Theme-based Research Scheme & Centre of Influenza Research on 18 May 2018
Roundtable Series with Movers and Shakers in Global Health: A Dialogue with Professor Ala Alwan on 28 March 2018
Seminars by Theme-based Research Scheme & Centre of Influenza Research on 1 March 2018
Seminars by Theme-based Research Scheme & Centre of Influenza Research on 12 January 2018

2017
TRS CIR Seminar on 20 December 2017
Roundtable Series with Movers and Shakers in Global Health: “Healthy Cities in a Healthy World: Challenges and Opportunities for the Next Decade” on 18 December 2017
Public Lecture on the Clinical Effort Against Secondhand Smoke Exposure (CEASE) program on 30 November 2017
University Grants Committee Conference: “Springboard to Success - Balancing University and Elite Sports” on 24 November 2017
SPH Seminar: "Use of genomics in public health" and "The antimicrobial prescribing trends in Hong Kong public hospitals: a 16-year study"on 16 November 2017
Roundtable Series with Movers and Shakers in Global Health: A Dialogue with Professor Dame Sally Davies on 8 November 2017
SPH Seminar: "Fat and Muscle-derived Hormones in Metabolic Control" on 31 October 2017
Roundtable Series with Movers and Shakers in Global Health: A Dialogue with Professor Martin McKee on 20 October 2017
TRS CIR seminar "Publishing in Nature Journals" on 3 Oct 2017
SPH Seminar: "Antimicrobial resistance: what role for herbal medicines?" on 13 September 2017
SPH Seminar: "Molecular epidemiological study of environmental factors, genetic variants and EBV infection in the etiology of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Southern China" on 12 September 2017
SPH Seminar: "The Global Virome Project" on 7 September 2017
SPH Seminar: "Precision Global Health in the Digital Era" on 23 August 2017
SPH Seminar: "Disparities in diseases of the liver and pancreas: race and lifestyle factors" on 22 August 2017
SPH Seminars: “New insights into the recognition of viral RNA by mammalian cells – potential applications in vaccine design” and “How to Succeed in Getting Research Grants?” on 15 August 2017
SPH Seminar: "Monitoring Health for all: New Insights into the Health and Progress of Nations from the Global Burden of Disease Study" on 7 August 2017
TRS CIR seminar "Epidemiology and Risk of Avian Influenza" and "A Universally Protective T Cell Activating Vaccine does not Block Transmission" on 5 July 2017
The Hong Kong Public Health Forum 2017 on 27 June 2017
SPH Seminar: "Research Update in Sports Science" on 19 June 2017
Transmission of Respiratory Viruses: From Basic Science to Evidence Based Options for Control on 19-21 June 2017
SPH Seminar: "Identifying the Beliefs and Multiple Processes Impacting Parents’ Behaviour for their Young Children’s Health" on 1 June 2017
SPH Seminar: “Modelling the Distribution and Spread of Arboviruses" on 10 May 2017
SPH Seminar: “Using Bigger Data Better: Precision Public Health” on 6 April 2017
Master of Public Health Information Day on 25 March 2017 (Saturday)
SPH seminars: "Using Theories from Psychology and Behavioral Science to Inform the Development of Effective Interventions to Promote Health Behavior Change" & "Clarifying the Link between Mastery Goals and Social Comparisons in Classroom Settin"
Master of Public Health Information Day on 25 February 2017 (Saturday)
Seminar on Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance and Control in China on 17 February 2017 (Friday)
SPH seminars: “Application of Big Data to Uncover Causes of Diseases” and “Soy Food Consumption and Breast Cancer Risk and Prognosis: Current Evidence and Recommendation” on 17 February 2017
TRS CIR seminar "Animals, Antimicrobials and One Health"
TRS CIR seminar "The Epidemiology of Japanese Encephalitis"
Master of Public Health Information Day on 14 January 2017 (Saturday)
Asia Premiere of Film and Book Signing on Clean Hands Save Lives on 6 January 2017

2016
TRS CIR seminar "A Compartmental Model for Zika Virus with Dynamic Human and Vector Populations"
Health care reform in China, a presentation by Representative of the PRC’s National Health and Family Planning Commission on 2 December 2016
SPH seminar: Parsing Pathways to Health Disparities: A mixed-method, multi-domain approach on 7 November 2016
AoE CIR Seminar: "The Impact of Stratified Immunity on the Transmission Dynamics of Influenza"
PHRC seminar: “Process of Polio Eradication in Nepal” on 29 August 2016
AoE CIR Seminar: "Using Internet Data for Applications Beyond Epidemic Monitoring" on 26 September 2016
PHRC seminar: “Life Expectancy in 2040: What Do Clinical Experts Expect?” on 23 August 2016
AoE CIR Seminar: "Immunogenenicity of Foreign IgG in Humans” on 22 August 2016
PHRC seminar: “Exercise as Medicine in Aging and Type 2 Diabetes” on 18 August 2016
PHRC seminar: “The health effects of a financial crisis: epidemiology on a large scale” on 17 August 2016
PHRC seminar: “ How to Get Someone to Pay You to Answer Difficult and Interesting Questions ” on 16 August 2016
TRS CIR Seminars: “Modeling Cell-Cell Interactions with Lung Organoids: Keys to Differentiation, Disease and Therapy” & “The Life of Breath: Stem Cells in the Adult Lung”
AoE CIR Seminar: “Pathogenesis of a Neurotropic Coronavirus Infection and New Murine Model for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome” on 9 August 2016
Joint Lunch Seminar on "Community Engagement in Health Professions Education" on 1 August 2016
PHRC seminar: “The Nature of Present and Future Global Health Challenges” on 22 July 2016
HKU-PRP Lecture: “Bats and Viruses” on 10 July, 2016
TRS CIR Seminar: “The multiple faces of Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase: the DNA mutating enzyme that drives antibody diversity, autoimmunity and B-cell lymphoma” 7 July 2016
PHRC seminar: “The Inclusive Cost of Pandemic Influenza Risk” on 4 July 2016
PHRC seminar: “Discourse of Cardiovascular Disease in India” on 20 June 2016
Public Lecture by Professor Zhong Nan-Shan: From SARS to MERS and Zika: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward in Combating Emerging Infectious Diseases
Symposium on Transmission and Control of Respiratory Pathogens on 14 June 2016
PHRC seminar: “Fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone – From a scientist’s perspective” on 13 May 2016
AoE CIR Seminars: "The Roles of Influenza Viral Polymerase Complex in Virus Replication and Host Adaptation" & "Genetic and Antigenic Evolution of H9N2 Influenza Virus in Chicken in China"
Master of Public Health Information Day on 9 April 2016 (Saturday)
PHRC seminar: “Climate change challenges to health: Impacts, vulnerability and responses” on April 8, 2016
Asia Launch cum Seminar of the Report Recommendations of the Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future on 13 March 2016
Croucher Summer Course “Vaccinology for Public Health and Clinical Practice in the 21st century”
TRS CIR Seminar: "Chemical Approaches to Decipher Novel Histone Epigenetic Code" on 24 February 2016
Master of Public Health Information Day on 20 February 2016 (Saturday)
TRS CIR Seminars: “What can We Learn about Influenza Emergence from Dogs and Horses?” & "Viruses and Variant Receptors - How those Affect Influenza Viruses and Parvoviruses" on 18 February 2016
AoE CIR Seminars: “Avian Host Range Restriction and Innate Antiviral Responses” on 27 January 2016
PHRC seminar: "The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Revolution and Public Health: Promises and perils" on 19 January 2016"
Master of Public Health Information Day on 9 January 2016 (Saturday)
PHRC seminar: "Obesity in Asia: A growing public health and economic challenge" on 8 January 2016"
TRS CIR Seminar: “Analysis of Viral Immune Evasion: Towards Therapeutic Cures” on 4 January 2016

2015
AoE CIR Seminars: "Machine Learning for Predicting Vaccine Immunity" on 18 December 2015
194th Congregation and Prize Presentation Ceremony
TRS CIR Seminar: "Universal T cell Immunity to Influenza Viruses" on 23 November 2015
TRS CIR Seminar: "Phylodynamics of Human Influenza Viruses" on 6 November 2015
PHRC seminar: "Air pollution, a novel risk factor for late life dementia?" on 4 November 2015
HKU-PRP Lecture: Molecular and cellular pathogenesis of Shigella: finding a second breath on 29 October 2015
HKU-PRP Lecture: The gut microbiome: from metagenomics to “experimentomics” on 27 October 2015
PHRC seminar: "Quantitative serum metabolomics in large-scale epidemiology – A cost-effective base towards systems medicine” on 27 October 2015
HKU School of Public Health hosts the Fifth Hong Kong Public Health Forum on Extracting Meaning from Data: Cohorts and Deep Analytics on 24 October 2015
TRS CIR Seminar: “Hong Kong as a Sentinel Post for Avian Influenza : Anthropological Perspectives” on 7 October 2015
PHRC seminar: “Prioritising expenditures in health research funding - the UK perspective" on 24 September 2015
AoE CIR Seminars on 21 September 2015 (Monday)
WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control hosts a lecture by Dame Barbara Stocking on 7 Sept 2015
AoE CIR Seminars: "Virus hunting in bats, the Netherlands" & "Mitochondrial transfer by stem cells in airway injury"
PHRC seminar: “Ageing in rural South Africa: facing colliding epidemics”
PHRC seminar: “Testosterone and the Modern Masquerade of Rejuventation"
AoE CIR Seminars: "Molecular basis of DNA damage recognition by PARP-1" & "Interventions against avian influenza A(H7N9) virus in live poultry markets and response from the community"
PHRC seminar: “Snapshots of social media research in public health”
PHRC seminar: "Measurement precision of two health-related quality of life instruments in breast cancer patients"
15th Anniversary of the Master of Public Health and Inauguration of The University of Hong Kong Public Health Alumni Society
TRS CIR Seminar: “Emergence of new epidemic viruses by host shifting: understanding canine parvovirus and canine influenza viruses”
PHRC seminar: “UK Biobank: An open access resource for studying genetically complex disease”
TRS CIR Seminar: “Establishment of H7N9 Influenza Viruses in China with Divergent Pathogenicity and Transmissibility in Mammals”
Master of Public Health Information Day on 21 March 2015 (Saturday)
AoE CIR Seminars: "Emergence and Evolution of H10 Subtype Influenza Viruses in Poultry in China" & "Formulation of Inhalable siRNA Therapeutics against Respiratory Infections
Master of Public Health Information Day on 14 February 2015 (Saturday)
Master of Public Health Information Day on 17 January 2015 (Saturday)
PHRC seminar: “Short-term Effects of Coarse Particulate Matter Air Pollution on Population Health - Time Series Studies in Hong Kong”

2014
Master of Public Health Information Day on 13 December 2014 (Saturday)
PHRC seminar: "Screening for depression in medical settings and its alternatives"
HKU School of Public Health hosts the Fourth Hong Kong Public Health Forum on The Role of the Generalist – A Tribute to Professor Anthony J Hedley
Graduation Ceremony 2014
PHRC seminar: “Helping parents quit smoking and reduce their children’s exposure”
AoE CIR Seminar: "Airborne Transmission of Influenza A Viruses"
AoE CIR Seminars: “Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus in dromedary camels in the Middle East and North Africa” & “Tropism and replication of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus from dromedary camels in the human respiratory tract:
Orientation Week for Master of Public Health Students
AoE CIR Seminar: The need for improved influenza vaccines: Evidence from household studies
Brainstorming Workshop for the RGC GRF/ECS 2015-16 organized by Centre of Influenza Research
PHRC seminar: “Survivorship Research 2014 - 2018, Danish Perspectives”
Master of Public Health Farewell Party 2014
AoE CIR Seminar: "Influenza A Viruses with Different Amino Acid Residues at PB2-627 Display Distinct Replication Properties in Virto and in Vivo: Revealing the Sequence Plasticity of PB2-627 Position" & "The Burden and Seriousness of Influenza Virus Infec
AoE CIR Seminar: Vaccinating Health Care Workers Against Influenza: Ethics and Evidence
Lectures about "Fight againt Infectious Diseases" around Plague exhibition
University of Michigan Medical School's Visit to the School
PHRC seminar: “Impact of Changes in Air Pollution Exposure on Biomarkers of Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Children Before and During the 2008 Beijing Olympics”
PHRC seminar: “Health Sector Prioritisation – a review and a look forward”
PHRC seminar: “Plague: still an emerging disease?”
PHRC seminar: The Potential Impact of Environmental Exposures on Health
PHRC seminar: A Social Network Family-Focused Intervention to Promote Smoking Cessation in Chinese and Vietnamese Male Smokers: A Mixed Methods Feasibility Study
Master of Public Health Information Day
FAMILY: Community Wisdom Forum "Supporting and Strengthening Families"
Harvard School of Public Health's Visit to the School
Roasted Pig Cutting Ceremony in Patrick Manson Building
AoE on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza & Centre of Influenza Research
Master of Public Health Information Day
Master of Public Health Information Day in Guangzhou
PHRC seminar: Findings from the Third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles in the U.K. (Natsal 3)
PHRC seminar: Managing the inherited risks of gastric cancer: The experiences of participants in the familial gastric cancer study
PHRC seminar: Developing a web-based public health textbook
Master of Public Health Information Day
AoE on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza & Centre of Influenza Research

2013
School's Christmas Party on 18 December 2013
MOU Signing Ceremony with London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
School of Public Health Graduation Ceremony 2013
PHRC seminar: Health communication across private and public spheres: Mapping a research agenda
AoE on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza & Centre of Influenza Research
PHRC seminar: Learning disability, array-CGH and the forgotten OMIC
PHRC seminar: Some Thoughts on Incidental Findings with Special Reference to Whole Genome Sequencing
AoE on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza & Centre of Influenza Research
Academic Exchange with delegates from Peking University, PRC
PHRC seminar: The Health Effects of Air Pollution in China
Little Dr. Flu - a Knowledge Exchange Programme for Primary School Students
PHRC seminar: Epidemiological studies of mortality in Switzerland – 'horizontal' and 'vertical'. Results from the Swiss national Cohort”'
AoE on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza & Centre of Influenza Research
Seminar: AoE on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza & Centre of Influenza Research
PHRC seminar: Risk factors of human myiasis in Hong Kong
PHRC seminar: The Vascular Informatics using Epidemiology and the Web (VIEW) programme: a programme of research to reduce evidence-practice gaps and disparities in CVD burden in New Zealand
10 Years of the HKU-Pasteur Virology Course: Anniversary Scientific Symposium
Seminar: AoE on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza & Centre of Influenza Research
Seminar: AoE on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza & Centre of Influenza Research
HKU and Harvard School of Public Health signed Memorandum of Understanding
Seminar: AoE on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza & Centre of Influenza Research

2012
Seminar: Disentangling Maternal Genetic and Environmental Effects in Family Studies and with the Implication to Missing Heritability
Seminar: Strategies for Predicting the Immunity of Vaccines
Medical and Health Research Network (MHRN) seminar
Seminar: AoE on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza & Centre of Influenza Research
School of Public Health Graduation Ceremony
Seminar: AoE on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza & Centre of Influenza Research
Seminar: AoE on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza & Centre of Influenza Research
Seminar: AoE on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza & Centre of Influenza Research
Seminar: AoE on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza & Centre of Influenza Research
Medical and Health Research Network (MHRN) seminar
Seminar: Area of Excellence on Control of Pandemic & Inter-Pandemic Influenza
Medical and Health Research Network (MHRN) seminar
Seminar: Area of Excellence on Control of Pandemic & Inter-Pandemic Influenza
Medical and Health Research Network (MHRN) seminar
Seminar: Area of Excellence on Control of Pandemic & Inter-Pandemic Influenza
International Research Symposium: AoE Scheme on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza
Seminar: Area of Excellence on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza
Seminar: Area of Excellence on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza
Seminar: Area of Excellence on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza
Seminar: Area of Excellence on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza
Seminar: Area of Excellence on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza
Seminar: Area of Excellence on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza
Seminar: Area of Excellence on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza
Seminar: Area of Excellence on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza
Seminar: Area of Excellence on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza
Seminar: Area of Excellence on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza
Seminar: Area of Excellence on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza
Symposium for FAMILY: A Jockey Club Initiative for a Harmonious Society
Seminar: Area of Excellence on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza
Seminar: Area of Excellence on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza
Seminar: Area of Excellence Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza
Seminar: Area of Excellence Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza
Medical and Health Research Network (MHRN) seminar
3-day Tobacco Control Study Tour for Vietnamese National Assembly and Government Officials
Medical and Health Research Network (MHRN) seminar
Seminar: AoE on Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza & Centre of Influenza Research

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