e-Bulletin February 2025
RECOGNITION |
Professor Michael Ni and His Team Received the University’s Knowledge Exchange Award 2024
FAMILY Cohort Serving as a Health and Wellbeing Barometer for Hong Kong for over a Decade and Counting
Professor Michael Ni, Clinical Associate Professor of our School, along with his team, has won the University’s “Knowledge Exchange (KE) Excellence Award 2024” with their project “A Health and Wellbeing Barometer for Hong Kong: Translational Impact Attained over A Decade and Counting”.
The KE Excellence Award is a university-level award to recognise outstanding KE accomplishment which has made significant economic, social, environmental or cultural impacts to benefit the society.
The FAMILY Cohort was the first large-scale programme in Hong Kong to track physical, mental, and social well-being since 2009. The cohort has served as a territory-wide health and wellbeing barometer, helping to inform policies to improve public health.
This award recognises Professor Ni and his team’s unwavering dedication in using public health science to serve the people of Hong Kong.
The School extends our hearty congratulations to Professor Michael Ni and his team on being recognised for their contribution.