e-Bulletin February 2024
The best part of Victoria Peak is the loop trail on a clear day. The view combines the best of natural and human artifice in one vista. My personal loop trail has been 40 meetings in the last 20 days with nearly every member of faculty as part of professional reviews. There is a grandeur to the wide span of our research, teaching, and practice. But the expanse is anchored and unified to a very human concern to make the world better. Our people are motivated to find threats to human health and neutralise them. Those threats range from emerging avian viruses to the social isolation faced by seniors. Problems yield not only to demand for facts, but to the insistence on communicating those facts clearly.
I am so thrilled by the view on the SPH loop trail that I want everyone to see it. I doubt anyone will take the time to crawl over all the school’s web pages, but I do hope this newsletter’s issues can make you curious to click in. Our research output and curriculum are a stunning vista of human minds encountering nature and humanity to make sense of it and to make better lives.
Professor David Bishai
Director and Clinical Professor
School of Public Health, HKU
The followings are research papers published by SPH researches in January 2024:
Comparison of prediction models for cardiovascular and mortality risk in people with type 2 diabetes: An external validation in 23 685 adults included in the UK Biobank
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, January 2024
Zhang, Yikun*; Jiong, Ong Xin*; Tang, Shiqi*; Tang, Yui Chit*; Wong, Cheuk Tung*; Ng, Carmen S.*; Quan, Jianchao*
Effectiveness of vaccines and antiviral drugs in preventing severe and fatal COVID-19, Hong Kong
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Open Access, Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 70 – 78, January 2024
Cheung, Yue Yat Harrison; Lau, Eric Ho Yin*; Yin, Guosheng; Lin, Yun; Cowling, Benjamin J.*; Lam, Kwok Fai
Understanding China’s shifting priorities and priority-setting processes in development assistance for health
Health Policy and Planning, Open Access, Volume 39, Pages I65 – I78, 1 January 2024
Guo, Bingqing*; Fan, Victoria; Strange, Austin; Grépin, Karen Ann*
Temporal trends of antidepressant utilization patterns in children and adolescents in Hong Kong: A 14-year population-based study with joinpoint regression analysis
Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume 344, Pages 61 – 68, 1 January 2024
Lo, Heidi Ka Ying; Tong, Co Co Ho Yi; Chan, Joe Kwun Nam; Kam, Candice Tze Kwan; Wong, Corine Sau Man*; Cheng, Calvin Pak Wing; Ho, Chung; Leung, Brian Man Ho; Wong, Wilfred Shone Horn; Yu, Zoe Hoi Shuen; Chang, Wing Chung
Moving cholera vaccines ahead of the epidemic curve
The Lancet, Volume 403, Issue 10422, Pages 127 – 129, 13 January 2024
Memish, Ziad A; Blumberg, Lucille; Al-Maani, Amal Saif; Baru, Rama; Dube, Eve Gao, George F; Jernigan, Daniel B; Leo, Yee-Sin; Peiris, Joseph Sriyal Malik*; Masud, Jakir Hossain B; McVernon, Jodie; Nonvignon, Justice
Nirmatrelvir/ritonavir use in pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron infection: a target trial emulation
Nature Medicine, Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 112 – 116, January 2024
Wong, Carlos K. H.; Lau, Kristy T. K.; Chung, Matthew S. H.; Au, Ivan C. H.*; Cheung, Ka Wang; Lau, Eric H. Y.*; Daoud, Yasmin; Cowling, Benjamin J*; Leung, Gabriel M*
Implementing a nurse-led screening clinic for symptom distress with community-based referral for cancer survivors: A feasibility study
Psycho-Oncology, Open Access, Volume 33, Issue 1, January 2024, Article number e6261
Lam, Wendy Wing Tak*; Ng, Danielle W. L.*; Fielding, Richard*; Sin, Vivian; Tsang, Catherine; Chan, Wendy W. L.; Foo, Chi Chung; Kwong, Ava; Chan, Karen K. L.
Vaccine confidence mediates the association between a pro-social pay-it-forward intervention and improved influenza vaccine uptake in China: A mediation analysis
Vaccine, Volume 42, Issue 2, Pages 362 – 368, 12 January 2024
Jiang, Wenwen; Lu, Chunlei; Yan, Xumeng; Tucker, Joseph D.; Lin, Leesa*; Li, Jing; Larson, Heidi; Gong, Wenfeng; Wu, Dan
Remark:
- This list is compiled by searching in Scopus using the keywords “School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong” for January 2024
- * Member of School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong
- In alphabetical order of publication
EVENT SNIPPETS |
Knowledge Exchange on Primary Healthcare System
Colombia Professor Inspired BASc(GHD) Students
The School was delighted to have Professor Luis Gabriel Bernal-Pulido from Rosario University – Bogotá, Colombia, as our guest speaker on February 2, 2024. He shared his extensive knowledge on “Foundations and Features of a High Performing Primary Healthcare System” with our BASc(GHD) students, shedding light on the essential components, including accessibility, quality, and community engagement, that contribute to an effective primary healthcare system.
Professor Bernal is a family physician with extensive clinical and managerial experience in primary and community health care services. He has worked for the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Colombia, and served as consultant for the World Bank Group. Our students were engaged in the lecture, actively participating by asking thought-provoking questions, and gained insights on understanding global health development from an international expert.
RPG Journal Club Seminar #08, “Exploring the Role of Psychology and Social Norms in Combating Climate Change,” took place on February 21, 2024. The event was chaired by Ms Ripple Yuan, Co-chairperson of the RPG Journal Club.
Mr Chico Xu and Ms Clara Chen presented papers by Spampatti et al. (2023)* and Constantino et al. (2022)^. The papers discussed interventions to equip the public to combat misinformation about climate science and how to mitigate climate change.
RPG Journal Club runs every alternative Wednesday during lunchtime. Welcome all research postgraduate students, research staff, MPH and BASc(GHD) students to join.
*Spampatti T, Hahnel UJJ, Trutnevyte E, Brosch T. Psychological inoculation strategies to fight climate disinformation across 12 countries. Nat Hum Behav. 30 November 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01736-0
^Constantino SM, Sparkman G, Kraft-Todd GT, Bicchieri C, Centola D, Shell-Duncan B, Vogt S, Weber EU. Scaling up change: a critical review and practical guide to harnessing social norms for climate action. Psychol Sci Public Interest. 2022 Oct;23(2):50-97. https://doi.org/10.1177/15291006221105279
