Dr Jacky Mo graduated with 1^st class honours in Bachelor of Science with a major in food and nutritional science in the University of Hong Kong. He continued his academic training with a Master of Public Health degree in 2011 and obtained a PhD degree in the field of cardiovascular epidemiology in the University of Hong Kong.

Before joining the School of Public Health as a teaching staff, Dr Mo has provided corportate training to international companies and government departments in Hong Kong. He has also taught sport nutrition, anatomy and physiology, and public health and epidemiology courses in Hong Kong Metropolitan University LiPACE.

Jacky’s research interest include the determinants of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) using various study designs including Mendelian randomization (MR).

1. Tommy Hon Ting Wong#, Jacky Man Yuen Mo#, Mingqi Zhou, Jie V Zhao, C Mary Schooling, Baoting He, Shan Luo, Shiu Lun Au Yeung. (2024). A twosample Mendelian randomization study explores metabolic profiling of different glycaemic traits. Communications Biology, 7(1), 293. # contributed equall
2. Ying Liang, Shan Luo, Steven Bell, Jacky Man Yuen Mo, Baoting He, Yangzhong Zhou, Xiaoyin Bai, Shiu Lun Au Yeung. (2024). Do iron homeostasis biomarkers mediate the associations of liability to type 2 diabetes and glycaemic traits in liver steatosis and cirrhosis: a two-step Mendelian randomization study. BMC medicine, 22(1), 270.
3. Siyu Chen, Ying Liang, Jacky Man Yuen Mo, Queenie Ho Yi Li, Baoting He, Shan Luo, Stephen Burgess, Shiu Lun Au Yeung. Challenges in interpreting Mendelian randomization studies with a disease as the exposure: Using COVID-19 liability studies as an exemplar. European Journal of Human Genetics. 2025 May;33(5):658-665.