CUHK Institute of Health Equity (CUHK IHE)
Inaugural Symposium on Health Equity in Hong Kong and Beyond


Date: 27 May 2021 (Thursday)
Time: 13:30 – 18:00 (HK Time)

 

Programme

1330 – 1335

 

Opening Remarks by Prof. Rocky Tuan, Vice-Chancellor of CUHK

1335 – 1340

 

Speech by Prof. Jean Woo, Co-director of CUHK IHE

1340 – 1410

Health Equity Study around the World / Marmot Review 10 Years On

  • Prof. Sir Michael Marmot, Director of UCL Institute of Health Equity and Co-director of CUHK IHE

1410 – 1450

 

Ageing and Health Equity

  • Prof. Hideki Hashimoto, Professor in Health and Social Behavior, The University of Tokyo School of Public Health
  • Prof. Jean Woo, Co-director of CUHK IHE & Director of CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing

1450 – 1515

 

Gender and Health Equity

  • Dr. Kira Fortune, Coordinator of Social Determinants of Health, Division of Healthy Environments and Populations, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific

1515 – 1540

Policy and System Approach to Achieving Health Equity

  • Prof. EK Yeoh, Co-director of CUHK IHE

1540 – 1605

 

Translation of Knowledge on Health Equity in South Korea: From Evidence and Theory to Policy and Practice

  • Prof. Chang-yup Kim, Professor of Health Policy, School of Public Health, Seoul National University

1605 – 1630

Life Course Approach to Examine Social Determinants of Health: The Case of Taiwan

  • Prof. Tung-liang Chiang, Professor of Health Policy, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University

1630 – 1700

The Role of Non-Government Sector in Mitigating Health Inequalities

  • Dr. Jessica Allen, Deputy Director of UCL Institute of Health Equity

1700 – 1800

Panel Discussion
What can We Learn from Health Equity Studies in Hong Kong and Its Relevance to Asian Economies?

Moderator:

  • Prof. Sir Michael Marmot

Discussants:

  • Prof. Jean Woo
  • Prof. EK Yeoh
  • Dr. Jessica Allen
  • Dr. Kira Fortune
  • Prof. Hideki Hashimoto
  • Prof. Chang-yup Kim
  • Prof. Tung-liang Chiang
  • Prof. Wong Hung, Associate Director of CUHK IHE
  • Prof. Roger Chung, Associate Director of CUHK IHE

 

Registration

https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=10434503
Registration deadline: 23 May 2021



CME/CNE Accreditation

Accreditation is given by the following Colleges on the condition that the College fellows attend the symposium on 27 May 2021 by signing into their Zoom accounts with showing their full names and organization. The login and logout time will serve as a proof of attendance to support the application for CME/CNE points. Data will be extracted by the secretariat after the symposium and submitted to relevant Colleges for their vetting and approval.

College / Programme CME / CNE / CPD Points
Continuing Medical Education (CME) Programme for Practising Doctors who are not taking CME for Specialists (Non-specialist) 4
Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
   – College of Anaesthesiologists

   – College of Community Medicine

   – College of Dental Surgeons

   – College of Emergency Medicine

   – College of Family Physicians

   – College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists

   – College of Ophthalmologists

   – College of Orthopaedic Surgeons

   – College of Otorhinolaryngologists

   – College of Paediatricians

   – College of Pathologists

   – College of Physicians

   – College of Psychiatrists

   – College of Radiologists

   – College of Surgeons

4

4

4

4

3

N/A

4

3

2

3

1

1.5

4

4

4
Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) 4

 

 

Speakers and discussants

 

Prof. Sir Michael Marmot

Director of UCL Institute of Health Equity
Co-director of CUHK Institute of Health Equity
  Professor Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, and Past President of the World Medical Association.

He is the author of The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world (Bloomsbury: 2015) and Status Syndrome: how your place on the social gradient directly affects your health (Bloomsbury: 2004). Professor Marmot holds the Harvard Lown Professorship for 2014-2017 and is the recipient of the Prince Mahidol Award for Public Health 2015. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from 18 universities.

Professor Marmot has led research groups on health inequalities for over 40 years. He chairs the Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas, set up in 2015 by the World Health Organizations’ Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO/ WHO). He was Chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), which was set up by the World Health Organization in 2005, and produced the report entitled: ‘Closing the Gap in a Generation’ in August 2008.

At the request of the British Government, he conducted the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England, which published its report ‘Fair Society, Healthy Lives’ in February 2010. This was followed by the European Review of Social Determinants of Health and the Health Divide, for WHO Euro in 2014. In February 2020, he launched the ‘Marmot Review 10 Years On’ report on the health inequalities across England, which served as an update to the ‘Fair Society, Healthy Lives’ review. He chaired the Breast Screening Review for the NHS National Cancer Action Team and was a member of The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health. He set up and led a number of longitudinal cohort studies on the social gradient in health in the UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health (where he was head of department for 25 years): the Whitehall II Studies of British Civil Servants, investigating explanations for the striking inverse social gradient in morbidity and mortality; the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), and several international research efforts on the social determinants of health.

Professor Marmot served as President of the British Medical Association (BMA) in 2010-2011, and is President of the British Lung Foundation. He is an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology; a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences; an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians. He is also a trustee of the Food Foundation, was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for six years, and in 2000 was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen, for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities. Professor Marmot is a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Prof. Hideki Hashimoto

Professor in Health and Social Behavior, The University of Tokyo School of Public Health
  Currently his research interests rest on social determinants of health, and health impact assessment of public policy including universal health coverage, education, and family welfare program. He is a core project leader for the Japanese Study of Retirement and Ageing, a Japanese sister to Health Retirement Study and her global family, and a PI for a new panel study of young households in the greater metropolitan Tokyo, the Japanese Study of Stratification, Health, Income, and Neighborhood (JSHINE). He joined Lancet’s Japan Series in 2011 featuring Japan’s achievement of universal health coverage for 50 years. He contributed as a chapter author for the recent Japan Health System Review, and served as a reviewer for OECD’s Reviews of Public Health Japan. He received MD from the University of Tokyo, and DPH from Harvard School of Public Health.

Prof. Jean Woo

Emeritus Professor of Medicine,
Henry G Leong Research Professor of Gerontology and Geriatrics;
Co-director, CUHK Institute of Health Equity
Director, Jockey Club Institute of Ageing
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Prof. Jean Woo graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1974. After medical posts in the Charing Cross, Hammersmith, and Brompton Hospitals in the UK, she worked in part time posts in general practice as well as research at the University of Hong Kong.

Prof. Woo joined the Department of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1985 as Lecturer responsible for the development of the teaching and service in Geriatric Medicine, becoming Head of the Department in 1993 until 1999, Chief of Service of the Medicine and Geriatric Unit at Shatin Hospital from 1993 to 2012, and Chair Professor of Medicine in 1994. From 2000 to 2006 she was Head of the Department of Community and Family Medicine, from 2001 to 2005 Director of the newly established School of Public Health, and from August 2013 to July 2016 Chairman of the Department of medicine & Therapeutics. She established the Centre for Nutritional Studies in 1997 using a self financing model to carry out service, education and research; and the Centre for Gerontology and Geriatrics in 1998, offering self-financed courses in Gerontology and Geriatrics, as well as End of Life Care.

Currently she is the Co-Director of CUHK Institute of Health Equity, Director of the Jockey Club Institute of Ageing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Honorary Consultant of the Prince of Wales and Shatin Hospitals, Hospital Authority.

Prof. Woo’s research interests include chronic diseases and geriatric syndromes, health services research, nutrition epidemiology and intervention, quality of life issues at the end of life, with over 900 articles in peer-reviewed indexed journals.

Dr. Kira Fortune

Coordinator of Social Determinants of Health, Division of Healthy Environments and Populations,
World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific
  Dr. Kira Fortune is the Coordinator of the Unit on Social Determinants of Health and Violence and Injury Prevention at the regional WHO office of the Western Pacific, in Manila. She leads the work on gender mainstreaming, health equity, community engagement, migration, alcohol and violence with a key focus on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Kira has spent the last 20 years specializing in public health, gender, health promotion and social determinants of health in various international organizations across the globe. Prior to taking up the position in Manila, she spent ten year at the Pan American Health Organization/Regional Office of the World Health Organization in Washington D.C., focusing on the social determinants of health, health promotion, health-in-all policies and the sustainable development goals both within the Americas, but also beyond.

Kira has extensive experience working across the international stage from global NGOs, academia as well as with inter-governmental organizations. Prior to joining the World Health Organization, Kira coordinated The International Health Research Network in Denmark and spent four years working in the Department of Global Advocacy at The International Planned Parenthood Federation in London. Kira also worked for three years with UNICEF in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where she was responsible for the program on Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV.

Kira holds a Doctorate in Sociology with a specific focus on Gender Mainstreaming from City University, London; a Master’s Degree in Anthropology, Gender and Development and a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology from the University of London. Additionally, she has a Master’s Degree in International Health from University of Copenhagen.

Prof. EK Yeoh

Co-director of CUHK Institute of Health Equity
 

Prof. Chang-yup Kim

Professor of Health Policy, School of Public Health,
Seoul National University
  His current researches include health and social policy, equity and justice in health, health reform, and critical health studies. He is the founding president of the Korean Society for Equity in Health, and the former president of the Academy for Critical Health Policy, Korea Society for Global Health, and Korea Society of Health Policy and Administration. Also, he has involved in research activities in collaboration with civil society, currently holding the position of the president and director of the People’s Health Institute, an independent not-for-profit research organization.

He was the founding director of the National Health Insurance Research Institute during 2000 and 2001 (currently Health Insurance Policy Research Institute of the National Health Insurance Service). During 2006-2008, he served as the president of Health Insurance Review and Assessment Services (HIRA).

Prof. Tung-liang Chiang

Professor of Health Policy, College of Public Health,
National Taiwan University
  Tung-liang Chiang is Professor and former Dean of the College of Public Health, National Taiwan University. In 1984, he received his ScD in health policy and management from the Johns Hopkins University. Professor Chiang is one of three pioneer architects of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance, which was inaugurated on March 1, 1995. In 2014-2016, he served as the Executive Director of the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan.

Professor Chiang’s research interest has focused on health care reforms and social determinants of health. Since 2003 he has been the principal investigator for the Taiwan Birth Cohort Study, following up a nationally representative sample of more than 20,000 babies born in 2005. Professor Chiang has published extensively, including three recent edited books: Health Care System Reform and Policy Research in Taiwan (World Scientific Singapore, 2020), The Third Wave of National Health Insurance Reform in Taiwan (Taipei: Commonwealth Publishing, 2021), and Higher Education in Taiwan: Global, Political and Social Challenges and Future Trends (Springer Nature Singapore, 2021).

Dr. Jessica Allen

Deputy Director of UCL Institute of Health Equity
  Jessica’s main activities are in working to embed a social determinants approach to health inequalities in England and globally. She was co-director of the Review of Social Determinants of Health and the Health Divide in the WHO European Region and was previously Project Director of the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post-2010 (the Marmot Review). In February 2020, she co-authored the Health Equity in England: Marmot Review 10 Years On report. She also co-authored the Greater Manchester Evaluation on the effects of a regionally delegated health and social care budget on social determinants in England.

Jessica is currently working with the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region Commission on Social Determinants of Health (WHO/EMRO) for the establishment of a comprehensive evidence base of health inequalities and social determinants for that region. She directs the secretariat for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas.

She has worked closely with national and local governments, third sector organisations and the NHS and published widely on social determinants of health. She is a member of several advisory groups in England and internationally. Prior to her work at UCL she was head of Health and Social Care at IPPR, Research Fellow in Public Health at the Kings Fund, and worked at Unicef and LSE. She has published and broadcast widely on issues relating to health and social care policy. She holds a doctorate from the University of London.

Prof. Wong Hung

Associate Director of CUHK Institute of Health Equity
  Dr. Wong Hung is an Associate Professor of the Department of Social Work and the Associate Director of CUHK Institute of Health Equity and Director of Yunus Social Business Centre@CUHK at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include poverty, social security and labour issues. He has also conducted research on marginal workers, unemployed youth , homeless people and poor residents in old urban area. He has actively advocated for Community Economic Development and the setting up of a universal pension scheme in Hong Kong. He is also the Vice-Chair of the Oxfam Hong Kong.