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Prof. Gary Ka-ki CHUNG

鍾嘉麒教授

PhD, MPH, BSc (CUHK)

Research Assistant Professor

Email: gchung@cuhk.edu.hk

 

ORCID: 0000-0002-8652-212X

ResearcherID: ABA-1266-2021

Biography

Dr. Gary Chung is a social epidemiologist who studies public health issues and related social determinants of health through an equity lens. With a nutritionist background, Dr. Chung obtained his PhD in Public Health at the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, focusing on the socioeconomic patterning of obesity and cardiometabolic conditions. His research interests go beyond nutrition-related issues but also cover mental health, healthcare access, health and social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, population health monitoring, and related health equity issues across the socioeconomic ladder, gender, and ethnic minority groups. Before returning to the School as a Research Assistant Professor, Dr. Chung completed his postdoctoral training at the CUHK Institute of Health Equity as the awardee of the RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme 2021/22.

Research Interests

  • Health equity

  • Public health nutrition

  • Healthcare access

  • Population mental health

  • Social determinants of health 

  • Population health monitoring

Recent Funded Research Projects 

  • Co-Investigator, Health & Social Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Young People across the Socioeconomic Ladder: A Cross-Country Comparative Study, Worldwide Universities Network Research Development Fund, Jan 2021 – Dec 2022

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  • Co-Investigator, Trajectories of healthy life expectancy by sex and districts in Hong Kong: A population-based retrospective cohort study (Ref: 19202031), Health and Medical Research Fund, Jul 2022 – Jun 2023

Selected Publications

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  1. Chung GK, Robinson M, Marmot M, Woo J. Monitoring socioeconomic inequalities in health in Hong Kong: Insights and lessons from the UK and Australia. Lancet Reg Health - Western Pacific 2022 (in press). doi: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2022.100636

  2. Chung GK, Chan SM, Chan YH, et al. Socioeconomic Patterns of COVID-19 Clusters in Low-Incidence City, Hong Kong. Emerg Infect Dis 2021; 27(11): 2874-7. doi: 10.3201/eid2711.204840

  3. Chung RY#, Chung GK#, Chan SM, et al. Socioeconomic inequality in mental well-being associated with COVID-19 containment measures in a low-incidence Asian globalized city. Sci Rep 2021; 11(1): 23161. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-02342-8

  4. Chung GK*, Chan SM, Chan YH, et al. Differential Impacts of Multimorbidity on COVID-19 Severity across the Socioeconomic Ladder in Hong Kong: A Syndemic Perspective. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2021; 18(15): 8186. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18158168

  5. Chung GK, Lai FT, Hung H, Yeoh EK, Chung RY. Differential educational patterning of cardiometabolic risks between women and men among community-dwelling Chinese adults in Hong Kong: the mediating role of obesity. Public Health Nutr 2021: 24(3): 4245-56. doi: 10.1017/S1368980021002044

  6. Chung GK, Lai FTT, Chan DC, Wong H, Yeoh EK, Chung RY. Socioeconomic disadvantages over the lifecourse and their influence on obesity among older Hong Kong Chinese adults. Eur J Public Health 2020; 30(5): 1013-8. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaa072

  7. Chung GK, Yu RHY, Ho SS, et al. Prospective association of obesity patterns with subclinical carotid plaque development in early postmenopausal Chinese women. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2020; 28(7): 1342-50. doi: 10.1002/oby.22820

  8. Chung RY#, Chung GK#, Gordon D, et al. Housing affordability effects on physical and mental health: household survey in a population with the world's greatest housing affordability stress. J Epidemiol Community Health 2020; 74: 164-72. doi: 10.1136/jech-2019-212286

  9. Chung GK, Dong D, Wong SY, Wong H, Chung RY. Perceived poverty and health, and their roles in the poverty-health vicious cycle: a qualitative study of major stakeholders in the healthcare setting in Hong Kong. Int J Equity Health 2020; 19(1): 13. doi: 10.1186/s12939-020-1127-7

  10. Chung GK, Chung RY, Chan DC, et al. The independent role of deprivation in abdominal obesity beyond income poverty. A population-based household survey in Chinese adults. J Public Health (Oxf) 2019; 41(3): 476–86. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdy161

Last Updated: 5 December 2022

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