Unnecessary Epidemic of Environmental Insults: Unnecessary Epidemic of Environmental Insults: Public Health Policy and Communication for Social Change
Session Chair & Respondent
Professor Samuel Wong Yeung-shan
Professor and School Director,
JC School of Public Health and Primary Care,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Biography
Professor Samuel Wong Yeung-shan is a clinician with training in both Family Medicine and Public Health. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Toronto and completed his Family Medicine residency training in Canada. He completed the Master of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University, USA and the Doctor of Medicine (MD) research degree at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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He is the Director of the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care and the Associate Dean (Education) of the Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. ​
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Professor Wong’s research interests include evaluating and developing mental health interventions in primary care, evaluating primary care services and developing primary care service models as well as multimorbidity. He has published more than 300 international peer-reviewed academic papers and has been awarded with more than HK$60 million in external competitive research grants for research related to primary care and mental health.​
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Professor Wong also serves the Hong Kong SAR Government in various capacities including as a member of the Steering Committee of the Primary Care Development (since 2017), the Expert Panel in Primary Healthcare and Non-communicable Disease (since 2018), Advisory Council on Food and Environmental Hygiene (2015-2021) and Advisory Committee on Primary Care Directory, Advisory Group on Hong Kong Reference Framework for Preventive Care for Children and for Older Adults in Primary Care Settings of the Department of Health (since 2016). He was also appointed by the Government as a Council Member of the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health (COSH) from 2014-2020. In addition to teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate students in Public Health and Family Medicine, he also provides clinical services in Family Medicine for the Hospital Authority as an Honorary Consultant in Family Medicine.