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 – 1340
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Opening Remarks |
1340 – 1410 |
Health Equity Study around the World / Marmot Review 10 Years On
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1410 – 1450
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Ageing and Health Equity
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1450 – 1515
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Gender and Health Equity
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1515 – 1540 |
Policy and System Approach to Achieving Health Equity
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1540 – 1605
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Streamlining the Journey for Greater Health Equity in South Korea: From Evidence and Theory to Policy and Practice
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1605 – 1630 |
Life Course Approach to Examine Social Determinants of Health: The Case of Taiwan
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1630 – 1700 |
Health Inequalities and COVID-19
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1700 – 1800 |
Panel Discussion Moderator:
Discussants:
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Registration
| https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=10434503 |
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 | CME / CNE Points |
|---|---|
| Continuing Medical Education (“CME”) Programme for Practising Doctors who are not taking CME for Specialists (Non-specialist) | 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). |
Prof. Roger Chung
Associate Director of CUHK Institute of Health Equity |
Dr. Chung joined the School of Public Health and Primary Care (SPHPC) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2011. Using the lens of biomedical ethics and justice, his research aims to empirically inquire into the social determinants of health inequalities (including poverty and health, migrants’ health, rare diseases patients’ health), as well as aging‐related issues on multimorbidity and long‐term/end‐of‐life care, and to utilize such evidence to inform health services and policy, domestically and beyond.
Dr. Chung is the founding Associate Director of the CUHK Institute of Health Equity established in January 2020 under the co‐directorship of Sir Prof Michael Marmot, Prof Eng‐Kiong Yeoh, and Prof Jean Woo. He is also a founding member of the Centre for Health Systems and Policy Research, a founding member of the Research Centre for Migration and Mobility, an executive member of the Centre for Health Systems and Policy Research, Centre for Quality of Life, and an Assistant Professor (by courtesy) at the CHUK Institute of Ageing. On an international level, Dr. Chung is the Vice Chair of the Public Health Global Challenge Steering Group of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), spearheading the direction of research and collaboration in public health for 23 international research universities in the world. In September 2018, Dr. Chung was elected the Inaugural National Academy of Medicine (NAM) International Health Policy Fellow by the prestigious NAM in the US, studying social determinants of healthy longevity. Furthermore, he is the Vice President of Hong Kong Life and Death Studies Association, a social enterprise integrating professional knowledge and ideas from a wide range of young professionals in innovating life and death education, advance care planning, longterm care and after‐death arrangements in Hong Kong; and he is a co‐host of the only “Life and Death Education” Radio Program in Hong Kong. Apart from his academic life, he is also an award‐winning and celebrated recording artist/producer. Dr. Chung obtained the Bachelor degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and Master of Health Science from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the US in 2005. He further received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree from the School of Public Health of the University of Hong Kong in 2011, with his study on the impact of socioeconomic development on population health, from which he also won the Presidential Award for Best Oral Presentation from the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine. |
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. |
