The article “Differential impacts of multimorbidity on COVID-19 severity across the socioeconomic ladder in Hong Kong: a syndemic perspective” won the Outstanding Paper Award for the 2021-2022 Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference organized by the Academy of Hong Kong Studies. Using a health equity perspective and led by a cross-disciplinary research team with Prof. Gary Chung as the first author, the paper uses a “syndemic” perspective to understand a public health issue in a holistic approach via the social determinants of health rather than in silos. The effective use of multiple data sources to conduct this COVID-19 research under severe fragmentation of health and social data in Hong Kong is also highly valued. The full paper can be read via here.
