Mr Jacky Mo graduated with 1^st class honours in Bachelor of Science with a Major in Food and Nutritional Science at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He continued his academic training with a Master of Public Health degree in 2011. In recognition of his outstanding academic records, he was awarded the Hui Pun Hing Memorial Postgraduate Fellowship in 2020 and completed a PhD degree in the field of cardiovascular epidemiology in 2024 at HKU. 

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

Mr Jacky Mo’s research interest includes 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 equally
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.