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Dr Margaret CHAN (Guest of Honour for the Opening Ceremony by video)
Dr Margaret Chan, from the People's Republic of China, obtained her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. She joined the Hong Kong Department of Health in 1978, where her career in public health began...
Dr Margaret Chan, from the People's Republic of China, obtained her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. She joined the Hong Kong Department of Health in 1978, where her career in public health began.
In 1994, Dr Chan was appointed Director of Health of Hong Kong. In her nine-year tenure as director, she launched new services to prevent the spread of disease and promote better health. She also introduced new initiatives to improve communicable disease surveillance and response, enhance training for public health professionals, and establish better local and international collaboration. She effectively managed outbreaks of avian influenza and of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
In 2003, Dr Chan joined WHO as Director of the Department for Protection of the Human Environment. In June 2005, she was appointed Director, Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Response as well as Representative of the Director-General for Pandemic Influenza. In September 2005, she was named Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases.
Dr Chan was elected to the post of Director-General on 9 November 2006. The Assembly appointed Dr Chan for a second five-year term at its sixty-fifth session in May 2012. Dr Chan's new term will begin on 1 July 2012 and continue until 30 June 2017.
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Mrs Carrie LAM GBS JP
Mrs Carrie Lam GBS JP was appointed as the Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong SAR Government on 1 July 2012. Before assuming the post, Mrs Lam had served the Government as an Administrative Officer for about 27 years. She has served in various bureaux and departments. She was Director of Social Welfare from ...
Mrs Carrie Lam GBS JP was appointed as the Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong SAR Government on 1 July 2012. Before assuming the post, Mrs Lam had served the Government as an Administrative Officer for about 27 years. She has served in various bureaux and departments. She was Director of Social Welfare from August 2000 to October 2003, Permanent Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands (Planning and Lands) from November 2003 to May 2004, and Director-General of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, London, from September 2004 to March 2006. She was Permanent Secretary for Home Affairs before her appointment as the Secretary for Development on 1 July 2007.
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Dr SHIN Young-soo
Dr Shin Young-soo took up the position of the World Health Organization's Regional Director for the Western Pacific on 1 February 2009. Until joining WHO, Dr Shin was Professor of Health Policy and Management at the College of Medicine, Seoul National University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1969 ...
Dr Shin Young-soo took up the position of the World Health Organization's Regional Director for the Western Pacific on 1 February 2009. Until joining WHO, Dr Shin was Professor of Health Policy and Management at the College of Medicine, Seoul National University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1969.
After three years as a medical officer in the Korean Navy, he enrolled in the School of Public Health at Yale University, United States of America, where he graduated in 1977. During the early 1990s, when working for the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare, Dr Shin led a pioneering pilot project designed to improve grassroots primary health care. He was later instrumental in upgrading the country's national health system at a time when universal health coverage was being introduced. In 2002 and 2003, Dr Shin served as Director of Korea's National Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, which disburses more than US$20 billion annually in health-insurance payments.
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Prof John ASHTON CBE
Prof John Ashton CBE, formerly North West Regional Director of Public Health and Regional Medical Officer from 1993 to 2006 and Director of Public Health and County Medical Officer for Cumbria from 2006 to 2013 has been elected President of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians from 2013 to 2016 ...
Prof John Ashton CBE, formerly North West Regional Director of Public Health and Regional Medical Officer from 1993 to 2006 and Director of Public Health and County Medical Officer for Cumbria from 2006 to 2013 has been elected President of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians from 2013 to 2016.
Prof Ashton is well known for his work on Planned Parenthood and Healthy Cities, and for his personal advocacy for Public Health. Prof Ashton has also played an active part in developing government policies for public health and under his leadership, the North West of England became regarded as a centre for pioneering initiatives. His legacy includes:
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Establishment of the country’s first Public Health Observatory (now Public Health Observatories in every region); and
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Pioneering work of the Healthy Cities initiative in conjunction with the World Health Organisation.
Prof Ashton holds chairs in the Liverpool Medical School, Liverpool John Moore’s University, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Manchester Medical School, the Valencia Institute of Public Health in Spain, the Universities of Central Lancashire, Lancaster and Cumbria. He is the author of many scientific papers, articles and chapters in books and of several books including The New Public Health which has been the standard textbook on Public Health.
Prof Ashton was awarded the Commander of British Empire (CBE) in the Millennium New Year’s honours list in recognition of his outstanding service to the National Health Service.
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Prof Fran BAUM
Prof Fran Baum is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Public Health and an Australia Research Council Federation Fellow at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. She is also Foundation Director of the Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity. She is a member of the Global Steering Council of the People’s Health Movement – a global network of health activist (www. phmovement.org) ...
Prof Fran Baum is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Public Health and an Australia Research Council Federation Fellow at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. She is also Foundation Director of the Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity. She is a member of the Global Steering Council of the People’s Health Movement – a global network of health activist (www. phmovement.org). She also served as a Commissioner on the World Health Organisation’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health from 2005-08. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Health Promotion Association. She is a past National President and Life Member of the Public Health Association of Australia.
Prof Baum is one of Australia’s leading researchers on the social and economic determinants of health. In 2008, she was awarded a prestigious Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship focusing on development of effective government and community responses to social determinants of health inequity and social exclusion. She holds several other national competitive grants from the National Health & Medical Research Council and the Australia Research Council which are considering a wide range of aspects of health inequities and social determinants of health including an evaluation of the South Australian Health in All Policies initiative, assessment of population health planning for primary health care and review of Australian health policies.
Prof Baum's numerous publications relate to social determinants of health, including Aboriginal people's health, health inequities, primary health care, health promotion, Healthy Cities, and social capital. Her book, The New Public Health (3rd edition 2008 Oxford University Press), is widely cited and used as a public health text in many public health courses.
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Prof Alfred CHAN BBS JP
Prof Alfred Chan BBS JP is Chair Professor of Social Gerontology, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, Lingnan University. Prof Chan has been both a practitioner in welfare services for older persons and an academic in social gerontology. Starting his career as a nurse and later on as a social worker in serving older persons, Prof Chan has extensive skills and knowledge in health and social care services and policy making ...
Prof Alfred Chan BBS JP is Chair Professor of Social Gerontology, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, Lingnan University. Prof Chan has been both a practitioner in welfare services for older persons and an academic in social gerontology. Starting his career as a nurse and later on as a social worker in serving older persons, Prof Chan has extensive skills and knowledge in health and social care services and policy making. His academic interests, such as the interpretation of intergenerational relationships, ageing and long-term care policies in Asia Pacific, the development of health and social care measurements, Quality of Life, Caring Index, etc. are closely related to this area and have been widely published in refereed journals. He is currently the Director of Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies and Office of Service-Learning at Lingnan University.
He sits on many Government advisory bodies including the Chair of Elderly Commission, Chair of the Working Group on Diet and Physical Activity, Department of Health, HKSAR Government. From September 2009 to August 2011, he was also the Chairman of the Working Group on Long Term Care Model that promotes long term care policy in the region and is responsible to oversee a Government-commissioned study on community care services for the elderly. From April 2006 to August 2009, he chaired the Working Group on Active Ageing that promotes nation-wide active ageing programmes, and the Committee on Opportunities for the Elderly Project of the Social Welfare Department. He is a member of the Hong Kong World Health Organisation Quality of Life Instruments (Elderly) Study Team, and a consultant on ageing and social development issues for the United Nations Economics and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).
In recognition of Prof Chan’s invaluable contributions, he was appointed a Justice of Peace in 2001, and was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star (BBS) by the HKSAR Government in 2006.
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Dr LEUNG Ting-hung JP
Dr Leung Ting-hung JP is currently the Controller, Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health in Hong Kong, China. Dr Leung has been serving in government public health service for more than 25 years and has experience in a number of public health areas, including disease prevention and control, health regulation and administration of health services ...
Dr Leung Ting-hung JP is currently the Controller, Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health in Hong Kong, China. Dr Leung has been serving in government public health service for more than 25 years and has experience in a number of public health areas, including disease prevention and control, health regulation and administration of health services.
Dr Leung is a medical graduate from the Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland. He was a WHO Fellow in 1988-89 and had obtained a degree of Master of Science in Public Health from the National University of Singapore. He is a Specialist in Community Medicine, a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators.
Dr Leung has been active in specialist training and examination. He was the Vice President of the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine, the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine from 2010 to 2013, after serving as the Chief Censor from 2005 to 2009.
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Prof Gabriel M LEUNG
Prof Gabriel Leung became the fortieth Dean of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong in 2013. Gabriel, a clinician and a respected public health authority, is also Chair Professor in the School of Public Health. Previously he was Professor and Head of Community Medicine at the University and served as Hong Kong’s first Under Secretary for Food and Health and fifth Director of the Chief Executive's Office in government ...
Prof Gabriel Leung became the fortieth Dean of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong in 2013. Gabriel, a clinician and a respected public health authority, is also Chair Professor in the School of Public Health. Previously he was Professor and Head of Community Medicine at the University and served as Hong Kong’s first Under Secretary for Food and Health and fifth Director of the Chief Executive's Office in government.
Born in Hong Kong, Gabriel received his early education locally and in the UK. He read medicine at Western Ontario and completed family medicine residency training in Toronto. He earned his master’s from Harvard and research doctorate from HKU.
Gabriel is one of Asia’s leading epidemiologists, having authored more than 350 scholarly papers and edited numerous journals. His research defined the epidemiology of two novel viral epidemics, namely SARS-CoV in 2003 and influenza A(H7N9) in 2013. While in government, he led Hong Kong’s policy response against the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic. Non-communicable disease work from Gabriel’s group has proposed novel insights into the fundamental biologic pathways leading to population-level origins of cardiovascular disease and Type II diabetes with global health relevance.
From 2010, Gabriel has been inaugural Chair of the Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, a multipartite partnership of governments, development agencies and the research community. He regularly advises national and international agencies including the World Health Organisation, World Bank and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. He was Vice President and Censor in Public Health Medicine of the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine, and is an elected Council member of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine. He is a member of the Hospital Authority Board and of the University Grants Committee, respectively a statutory agency responsible for all public health care services and an advisory body on the development and funding requirements of the higher education sector in Hong Kong.
A firm believer in the importance of teaching and learning, Gabriel has always maintained a substantial commitment in the undergraduate medical and postgraduate public health curricula. His paedagogy has been recognised by the award of the University Teaching Fellowship and the Faculty Teaching Medal, respectively the highest honour for teaching achievements conferred by the University and the medical school.
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Mr Alex ROSS
Mr Ross is a public health policy expert trained in the United States at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). Prior to his joining the Centre, he served as Director for Partnerships at WHO Headquarters (Geneva) for four years, as well as in senior advisory posts to Assistant Director-Generals for Communicable Diseases and for HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria for four years...
Mr Ross is a public health policy expert trained in the United States at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). Prior to his joining the Centre, he served as Director for Partnerships at WHO Headquarters (Geneva) for four years, as well as in senior advisory posts to Assistant Director-Generals for Communicable Diseases and for HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria for four years. During this time, he led development of a WHO partnerships policy, nurtured WHO’s engagement with global health initiatives, non-governmental and private sectors. He also provided inputs to the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness framework negotiations, including strategies for engaging vaccine manufacturers, other private sector entities, and the World Bank/IMF to help provide funds to countries in need.
Mr Ross was very involved in developing innovative health financing approaches, such as the Solidarity Tobacco Contribution, and has been part of the creation of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and UNITAID.
Before joining WHO, Mr Ross served in senior positions in the UK Department for International Development between 2001 and 2003, and in several U.S. Government agencies between 1987 and 2001 (USAID Bureau for Africa, U.S. Public Health Service, U.S. House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee, and U.S. General Accounting Office).
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Ms Lindsay GOLDMAN, LMSW
Ms Lindsay Goldman LMSW is the Project Director for Age-friendly NYC, New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), a public/private initiative to improve older adults’ quality of life in New York City through changes to policies, practices, and programs. Lindsay has over 12 years of experience in program development and administration, aging services, philanthropy, and social policy...
Ms Lindsay Goldman LMSW is the Project Director for Age-friendly NYC, New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), a public/private initiative to improve older adults’ quality of life in New York City through changes to policies, practices, and programs. Lindsay has over 12 years of experience in program development and administration, aging services, philanthropy, and social policy. She is the lead author of NYAM’s recently released report Resilient Communities: Empowering Older Adults in Disasters and Daily Life which details the findings and recommendations of a year-long study of older adults in disasters with a special focus on Hurricane Sandy in New York City. Prior to her time at NYAM, Lindsay most recently worked at UJA-Federation of New York where she was responsible for strategic planning and allocations to agencies serving older adults in New York and Israel. She also served as the director of the Health Enhancement Partnership at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House and received a Best Practice Award for her work from the National Council on Aging in 2008. She holds a bachelor’s in English from Wesleyan University and a master’s in Social Work from New York University.
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