News
2025
12 Apr, 2025
Event Recap: Public Health Forum 2025
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24 Feb, 2025
Event Recap: Visit of the School of Public Health International Advisory Board to Hong Kong |
07 Jan, 2025
Event Recap: Hong Kong Jockey Club Global Health Institute (HKJCGHI) Inaugural Symposium on “Advancing Global Health Through Scientific Innovation”
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2024
18 Nov, 2024
Nineteen HKUSPH Researchers Ranked in the Top 1% Worldwide |
18 Nov, 2024
Twelve SPH Academics Named Amongst the World’s Highly Cited Researchers in 2024
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13 Nov, 2024
Event Recap: Book Launch Seminar on “Strategic Investment for Health System Resilience: A Three-Layer Framework” |
31 Oct, 2024
Event Recap: Distinguished Lecture "Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Era of Pandemic Disease" by Professor David M. Cutler |
25 Oct, 2024
Event Recap: NAM-HKU Fellowship in Global Health Leadership Seminar - “Innovation and Integration as Strategies for Transforming Paediatric Health Ecosystems - Pathways towards Precision, Equity, Sustainability, and Holistic Communities in Hong Kong” |
14 Oct, 2024
Event Recap: Patient Care Project (PCP) Student Visit |
18 Jun, 2024
Professor Guan Yi ranked 1st in Immunology in China by Research.com
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07 Jun, 2024
HKU-Pasteur Research Pole and Andong National University Collaborate to Advance Vaccine Development and Biotechnology
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10 May, 2024
Event Recap: “Primary Health Care Research Frontiers in the Era of Polycrisis” by Dr Kumanan Rasanathan |
09 May, 2024
Professor Michael Chan and his team Received Prestigious Awards at the 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva |
05 Feb, 2024
Professor Hui-ling Yen awarded Rosie Young 90 Medal for Outstanding Woman Scholar |
27 Jan, 2024
Event Recap: Public Health Forum 2024: Past, Present and Future of Public Health |
2023
04 Dec, 2023
Event Recap: "Global Pandemic Prevention and Readiness: A Fragile State of Preparedness" Distinguished Lecture by Dr Victor Dzau |
22 Nov, 2023
Twenty HKUSPH Researchers Ranked In The Top 1% Worldwide |
16 Nov, 2023
Ten SPH Academics Named Amongst The World’s Highly Cited Researchers in 2023 |
20 Oct, 2023
Dr Wendy Lam won the 2023 Distinguished Merit Award by the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care |
20 Oct, 2023
Professor Keiji Fukuda is conferred Honorary University Fellowship by the University of Hong Kong |
26 Sep, 2023
Event Recap - "Achieving health for all: Primary health care in action" by Professor David Bishai |
20 Sep, 2023
Event Recap - "Building on Community Strengths for Mental Health - Models from Hong Kong and North America" |
31 Jul, 2023
Event Recap - “Global trends in primary health care reform: implications for HK” by Professor Michael Kidd AO |
20 Jul, 2023
Event Recap - “Lancet @ 200 – Looking Back and Looking Forward” Lecture by Dr Richard Horton |
14 Jul, 2023
Dr Tommy Lam won the Zhong Nanshan Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award |
28 Jun, 2023
Podcast - Scientists in Exile: When Researchers & Clinicians are Forced to Flee |
21 Jun, 2023
Professor Malik Peiris being conferred the Degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Oxford |
13 May, 2023
SPH renewed a Memorandum of Understanding with partners of the Guangdong – Hong Kong – Macao University Alliance (GHMUA) Public Health Sub-Alliance |
30 Jan, 2023
Professor Leo Poon Lit-man awarded the Pasteur Network LP200 Prize |
2022
30 Nov, 2022
Seventeen HKUSPH researchers ranked in the top 1% worldwide |
16 Nov, 2022
Nine SPH Academics Named Amongst the World's Most Highly Cited Researchers in 2022 |
17 Sep, 2022
Public Health Forum 2022: Major Health Challenges of the 21st Century |
17 Sep, 2022
‘Promoting Family Wellbeing: from Two Mega Family Projects to Future Multi-sector Collaborations’ Symposium 2022 |
13 Apr, 2022
Notice of Intention to submit an application for 2022 Ministry of Education (MOE) Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology)
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30 Mar, 2022
Professor Leo Poon Lit-man and Dr Alex Chin Wing-hong awarded Silver at the Special Edition 2022 Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days |
07 Jan, 2022
Dr Michael Ni received the University’s Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2020-21 |
2021
30 Nov, 2021
Sixteen HKUSPH researchers ranked in the top 1% worldwide
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17 Nov, 2021
Six SPH academics named amongst the world’s most highly cited researchers in 2021 |
16 Nov, 2021
APRU Global Health Conference 2021 |
22 Oct, 2021
Dr Maria Zhu Huachen received the Chinese Young Women in Science Fellowship |
12 Sep, 2021
Professor Malik Peiris awarded the 2021 Future Science Prize
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17 Jun, 2021
Professor Ben Cowling honoured with an MBE in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours List |
16 Jun, 2021
Professor Roberto Bruzzone awarded the insignia of Officer in the French National Order of Merit |
24 May, 2021
MBBS students’ opinions on interprofessional education published in the Medical Teacher Journal |
29 Apr, 2021
SPH supports World Hand Hygiene Day |
09 Apr, 2021
Professor Yi Guan and Professor Malik Peiris awarded the 2021 John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health |
2020
21 Dec, 2020
Dr Janice Johnston received the Faculty Teaching Medal 2020 |
17 Dec, 2020
Four SPH members received the University’s Research Output Prize 2019-20 |
19 Nov, 2020
14 faculty members of HKU School of Public Health recognised as top 1% scholars worldwide |
17 Nov, 2020
Dr Janice Johnston received the University Distinguished Teaching Award 2020 |
08 Oct, 2020
SPH receives the Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Award 2020 |
08 Oct, 2020
Three SPH alumni honoured with the 2020 Honours List and JP Appointment by the HKSAR Government |
2019
18 May, 2019
The Hong Kong Jockey Club Community Day |
26 Mar, 2019
WHO Consultation Symposium for Mitigating the Risk and Impact of Epidemic and Pandemic Influenza |
25 Feb, 2019
HKU-Pasteur Research Pole to be a Partner in the Respiratory Diseases Research Centre Project in the Greater Bay Area |
2018
12 Oct, 2018
MBBS students’ study on depression and anxiety published in the Hong Kong Medical Journal |
28 Jun, 2018
Professor Malik Peiris Named One of 10 “Science Stars of East Asia” by Nature |
26 Mar, 2018
Four SPH Members Honoured with the HKU Excellence Awards 2017 |
21 Feb, 2018
MBBS Health Research Project students’ study on “Association of long-term glycaemic control on tear break up times and dry eye symptoms in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes” published in Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology |
22 Jan, 2018
United we run at Standard Chartered HK Marathon 2018 |
2017
11 Aug, 2017
BSc Exercise and Health student’s study on Proprioception and Flexibility Profiles of Elite Synchronized Swimmers published in Perceptual and Motor Skills |
26 Jul, 2017
BSc (Exercise & Health) students received the Research Internship Award of Undergraduate Research Fellowship Programme 2017/2018 |
26 Apr, 2017
Dr Huachen Zhu received the Outstanding Young Researcher Award at the University’s Award Presentation Ceremony held on 27 March 2017 |
22 Mar, 2017
MBBS Health Research Project students’ study on medical chaperones in intimate physical examinations published in Hong Kong Medical Journal |
20 Jan, 2017
The School of Public Health receives a prestigious research award from World Anti-Doping Agency |