Research Postgraduate (RPg) Programme

Step 1:To submit an initial application to RGC. 

Step 2: To submit full application to CUHK. 

Please visit the Graduate School webpage about the application procedures and admissions requirements.

CUHK Postgraduate Studentships (Scholarship/Stipend)​

The CUHK Postgraduate Studentship is available for full-time research postgraduate students throughout normative study period in 3 or 4 years which is to be decided by the Graduate School. The monthly stipend ranges from HK$18,725 for pre-candidacy (PGS-1) to HK$19,275 for post-candidacy (PGS-2).

For details, please visit: https://cerg1.ugc.edu.hk/hkpfs/index.html#award for more

Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) from the RGC​

Apart from the CUHK regular scholarship, the HKSAR Government offers the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship to full-time PhD students.  It offers HK$28,100 per month to the awardees and a conference and research-related travel allowance at HK$14,000 per year. A tuition waiver will be provided to HKPFS awardees during their whole normative study period. Also it provides an award for lodging in the first year of study of HKPFS awardees. The awardees will have guaranteed on-campus accommodation during the normative study period and their on-campus hostel fee will be waived in the first year of study. HKPFS awardees with a normative study period of 4 years, CUHK provides stipend and conference travel allowance at HKPFS level for the fourth year of study.

For details, please visit: https://www.gs.cuhk.edu.hk/admissions/scholarships-fees/hkpfs

Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) & Annual Summer Workshop​

We have been admitting HKPFS awardees to pursue PhD since the year of 2010. Please join our HKPFS Summer Workshop for early preparation. Click here to register for the Summer Workshop in August 2025.

Diverse fields of specialisation​

• Non-communicable Disease and Aging
• Environmental Health and Infectious Diseases
• Global Health Policy, Health System & Healthcare Delivery
• Mental Well-Being, Social & Health Behavior, Addiction
• Bioinformatics, Machine Learning and Big Data
• Family Medicine and Primary Health Care

Academic exchange and exposure:​

Our PhD students have an excellent track record, publishing in high-impact journals such as The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Nature Communications, and Journal of Hazardous Materials. Many have gone on to become professors, researchers, and healthcare professionals in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and overseas. Click here to learn more about our students’ publications with a high impact factor. They also have opportunities to conduct supervised research exchanges at prestigious universities worldwide, including

•     Karolinska Institutet
•     Utrecht University
•     University of Oxford
•     Yale University
•     Brown University
•     University of California Berkeley
•     University of Toronto
•     University of Sydney

This international exposure enriches their academic experience and expands their professional networks.

Strong faculty

Our academics are renowned experts in their respective fields, dedicated to training the next generation of public health leaders.

• Prof. EK Yeoh – Systems for Health
• Prof. Emily Chan – Disaster and Global Health
• Prof. Joseph Lau – Behavioural Health
• Prof. SS Lee – Infectious diseases
• Prof. Shelly Tse – Occupational and environmental health, cancer epidemiology
• Prof. Martin Wong – Prevention and screening of chronic disease
• Prof. Samuel Wong – Interventional studies for common mental health problems in primary care and Multimorbidity in Primary Care
• Prof. Benny Zee – Clinical trials methodology including pharmaceutical statistics, Public Health issues including infectious disease modelling, Bioinformatics including microarray data analysis, image processing and diagnostic methods