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Prof. Cindy Yue TIAN
田悅教授

Cindy Yue TIAN
BMed (WHU), MPH (CUHK), PhD (CUHK)
Research Assistant Professor
cindy.tian@cuhk.edu.hk

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ORCID: 0000-0002-0083-5185

Bio

Dr. Cindy Yue Tian is a Research Assistant Professor at the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, CUHK. She obtained her Bachelor of Medicine from Wuhan University, where she was recognized as an Outstanding Graduate, and complete her Master and PhD in Public Health at CUHK. She subsequently received postdoctoral training at the Centre for Health Systems & Policy Research, CUHK. Her work has been recognized by several academic distinctions, including the Teaching Assistant Award of the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, the Wennberg International Collaborative Fall Research Meeting Travel Grant, the Reaching Out Award from the Education Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR Government, a Women Leaders in Global Health Conference Scholarship from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and the Duke Kunshan Global Learning Semester Scholarship.

Dr. Tian’s research focuses on health system innovation, with particular interests in health literacy, patient-reported outcome measures, and the evaluation and implementation of digital health technologies, including artificial intelligence. Her work explores how patients’ knowledge, experiences, and values can be systematically translated into clinical decision-making, service improvement, and value-based care, with the aim of generating policy-relevant evidence to support equitable and patient-centred health system transformation.

Research Interest

  • Evaluation & Implementation of AI for Health

Designing, evaluating, and implementing patient-facing AI-enabled tools to ensure their safe, clinically meaningful, and equitable integration into real-world healthcare settings, with a focus on addressing AI-related and digital health equity challenges.

  • Health Literacy: Measurable Metrics and Translational Applications

Developing and validating measurable health literacy indicators and translating them into clinically and system-relevant applications to support patient engagement, healthcare decision-making, and service improvement.

  • Patient-reported Outcomes & Value-based Healthcare

Integrating patient-reported outcomes into care evaluation to support value-based, patient-centered health system improvement.

Recent Funded Research Projects

  • PI, Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF), Development and Validation of a Computerized Adaptive Test for Measuring Mental Health Literacy in Adolescents, Health Bureau, recommended for support, 2026-2027.
  • Co-PI, Ideation Program 2025, Empowering Older Patients with Hypertension/Diabetes: Co-producing Patients Decision Support Aids for Equitable and High-value Healthcare, Hong Kong Science & Technology Park (HKSTP), 01/08/2025-01/08/2026.
  • Co-Leader, Knowledge Transfer Project Fund (KPF) 2024, Empowering Older Patients with Hypertension/Diabetes: Co-producing Patients Decision Support Aids for Equitable and High-value Healthcare, CUHK, 01/04/2025-30/09/2026.
  • Co-I, Research Data Management Development Fund Round 2, Factors Affecting Specialist Outpatient Involvement in Medical Decision-Making, CUHK, 01/01/2024-01/07/2025.
  • Co-I, Direct Grant, CUHK, Development, Validation, and Implication of New Health Literacy Scale for Adults in Hong Kong, 2019-2021.

Selected Publications

  • Tian, C. Y., Wang, K., Cheung, A. W.-L., Ma, J. C.-H., Lu, C., Yu, J. C.-Y., Chan, C. Y., Chen, J., Ouyang, K., Lin, I. W.-K., Pang, T. H.-C., Zhao, S., Wang, Y., & Wong, E. L.-Y. Operationalizing digital health equity: Insights from co-designing AI-enabled patient decision aids for older adults. Journal of Medical Internet Research, Major revision.
  • Tian, C. Y., Ng, C. C. W., Xie, L., Mo, P. K., Dong, D., Nutbeam, D., & Wong, E. L. (2025). Conceptualisation of critical health literacy—insights from Western and East Asian perspectives: a scoping review. BMJ Global Health, 10(5).
  • Tian, C. Y., Wong, E. L. Y., Qiu, H., Liu, S., Wang, K., Wei, Y., … & Yeoh, E. K. (2025). Implementation suggestions for shared decision-making: results from a comparative study of inpatients and outpatients experience surveys. BMC Health Services Research, 25, 362.
  • Tian, C. Y., Wong, E. L. Y., Qiu, H., Zhao, S., Wang, K., Cheung, A. W. L., & Yeoh, E. K. (2024). Patient experience and satisfaction with shared decision-making: A cross-sectional study among outpatients. Patient Education and Counseling, 129, 108410.
  • Tian, C. Y., Mo, P. K. H., Dong, D., Qiu, H., Cheung, A. W. L., & Wong, E. L. Y. (2023). Associations between Health Literacy, Trust, and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: The Case of Hong Kong. Vaccines, 11(3), 562.
  • Tian, C. Y., Mo, P. K. H., Dong, D., Cheung, A. W. L., & Wong, E. L. Y. (2023). Development and validation of a comprehensive health literacy tool for adults in Hong Kong. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, 1043197.
  • Tian, C. Y., Wong, E. L. Y., Xu, R. H., Cheung, A. W. L., Dong, D., & Mo, P. K. H. (2023). Developing a Health Literacy Scale for adults in Hong Kong: A modified e‐Delphi study with healthcare consumers and providers. Health Expectations, 26(1), 245-255.
  • Tian, C. Y., Xu, R. H., Mo, P. K. H., Dong, D., & Wong, E. L. Y. (2020). Generic Health Literacy Measurements for Adults: A Scoping Review. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(21), 7768.
  • Tian Y, Wong ELY, Qiu H, Wang H, Cheung AWL, Yeoh EK. Gender differences in healthcare experience: evidence from Hong Kong hospital surveys (2010-2020). Eur J Public Health. 2025 Oct 27;35(Suppl 4):ckaf161.897.
  • Tian, Y., Wong, E., Mo, P. K. H., Dong, D., & Cheung, A. W. L. (2023). PCR44 The Impact of Health Literacy on Health-Related Quality of Life: A Cross-Sectional Study in Hong Kong. Value in Health, 26(6), S320.