Prof. Albert LEE
李大拔教授
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ORCID: 0000-0002-5888-5660
Personal website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/med/hep/prof_alee/main.html
Academic Appointments
- Founding Director of Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion, Senior College Tutor of WU Yee Sun College, CUHK
Bio
“Practising clinician, educational innovator and research leader in Family Medicine, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Asia. Dr. Lee has particular focus on promotion of child and adolescent health through school settings linking to community and primary health care. He has contributed models of care for school health, applicable internationally.” This was citation for election as member of National Academy of Medicine (NAM) USA in 2012 and the first elected from Hong Kong. He has served NAM Forum on ‘Investing in Children globally’ (iYCG) and co-chair HK iYCG workshop in 2015. He has served as WHO Advisor/Consultant since 2003. He is Vice President (Asia) of World Association for Medical Law and Editor in Chief of the official journal.
Albert is duly qualified in Medicine and Law with Medical Degree (MB BS) and Law Degree (LLB) from University of London in 1984 and 2015 respectively, higher doctorate degree in Medicine (MD) from CUHK and National University of Ireland, and higher professional qualifications in Family Medicine, Public Health, Law, Healthcare Management, Arbitration and Mediation. He is Emeritus Professor in Public Health and Primary Care, and Fellow and Senior College Tutor of CUHK Wu Yee Sun College. He is also Adjunct Professor of International Centre for Future Health System, Univeristy of New South Wales, Australia
Research Interest
- Health promotion and disease prevention by minimisation of risk factors/behaviours and enhancement of protective health factors/behaviours using the setting approach such as Healthy Cities, Health Promoting School, Health Promoting workplaces and Health Promoting in Health Care system. It is hoped that the setting approach would help to address the determinants of health from a wider perspectives namely socio-economic, cultural, political, environmental (physical and social), biological, and advancement of medical technology.
- Child and adolescent health through school setting linking to community and primary care involving wider sectors and community beyond health sector such as education, social services, security, legal, municipality, culture and recreation, mass media, food and catering.
- Community based care for management of chronic disease with focus on diabetes mellitus, hypertension, asthma. COPD, musculoskeletal problems, obesity/overweight leading to evolution of new model of integrated care moving beyond hospital and clinics into the community.
- Education development for professionals in Family Medicine, Primary Health Care and Health Promotion, School Health, Medical Law and Ethics.
- Research on medico-legal issues and use of alternate dispute resolution in health and social services.
Recent Funded Research Projects
- Lee A., Leung E., Lee DTF., Chiu WK., Chow CB. Profiling Older Population’s Risks in the Kwai Tsing Neighbourhood and Optimising the Service Operations at District Health Centres: Data-driven Service Model and Policy Design. Strategic Public Policy Research Fund. $4,994,402. * Joint PI. Project code 6905413. April 1 2020 to March 31, 2024.
Selected Publications
Over 270 publications * corresponding author. # Principal Investigator of the project until Aug/2022
- Lee A, Tong KW, Chiu BCF, Wong W. Integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine: Some Food of Thought on Clinical Liability. HKMJ 2024 30 (4): 268-70 https://doi.org/10.12809/hkmj245163
- Lee A, Tvaronavičienė A. Resolving Medical Disputes More Efficiently by ADR. Medicine and Law 2024; 43(2)215-232
- Kim H, Lee A. How patient autonomy drives the legal liabilities of medical practitioners and the practical ways to mitigate and resolve them. Postgrad Med J. 2023 Mar 31;99(1168):83-88. doi: 10.1093/postmj/qgad003
- Eman Leung *, Albert Lee *, Yilin Liu, Chi-Tim Hung, Ning Fan, SamChing, Hillary Yee, Yinan He, Richard Xu, Hector Wing Hong Tsang, Jingjing Impact of environment on pain among the working poor: Making use of random forest-based stratification tool to study the socioecology of pain interference. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2024 21, 179. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21020179
- HuangJ, Keung VMW, Cheung CKM, Lo ASC, Chan SC, Wong YY, Mui LWH, Lee A#, Wong MCS. Prevalence and associated factors of overweight in Chinese adolescents: a cross-sectional study. Health Sci Rep. 2024; 7:e2237. doi:10.1002/hsr2.2237
- Lee A, Nakamura K. Engaging diverse community groups to promote population health through Healthy City approach: Analysis of successful cases in Western Pacific Region. International Journal Environmental Research and Public Health,2021; 18, 6617. https://doi.org/10.3390/ ijerph18126617
- Lee A., Lo ASC, Li Q., Keung MW, Kwong CM. Health Promoting School: An Update. J Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 2020; Apr 15: 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40258-020-00575-8
- Frederick K Ho, Hung-Kwan So, Rosa S Wong, Keith T S Tung, Lobo H T Louie, Joanna Tung, Sheena Mirpuri, Bik Chow, Wilfred H S Wong, Albert Lee, Patrick Ip. The reciprocal relationship between body mass index categories and physical fitness: a four-year prospective cohort study of 20,000 Chinese children. Paediatric Obesity 2020; Sep;15(9):e12646. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12646.
- Lee A., Lo ASC, Keung MW, Kwong CM, Wong KK. Effective Health Promoting School for better health of children and adolescents: Indicators for success. BMC Public Health 2019; 19:1088 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7425-6
- Yuen W., Lee A*., Chan PKS, Tran L, Sayko E. Uptake of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in Hong Kong: Facilitators and barriers among adolescent girls and their parents. PLOS One 2018; 13(3): e0194159