Strategic Domain
Public Health
CPHC will elevate primary healthcare practices and to drive impactful change across disciplines from a Public Health perspective, including:
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To enhance awareness of global health issues and the development of skills such as negotiation, advocacy, and responsibility in the primary healthcare settings
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To create platforms and coordinate with NGOs, volunteer groups, private sector organisations and community members for collective impact and better outcomes
Education
Master of Public Health
A concentration with focus on the Public Health Practice – Comprehensive Primary Health Care (PHP – CPHC) has been launched. This concentration fosters an understanding of contemporary public health practice, based on comprehensive primary health care principles and the whole-of-society analysis approach, for both global and local public health issues.
Patient Care Project (PCP)
The PCP is an interdisciplinary, community-based educational programme, providing students the opportunity to engage with patients with long-term conditions. Students actively engage with their assigned patients, gain a deeper understanding of their experiences and needs, and explore available services provided by different community partner sites. Through active engagement, the programme helps strengthen students’ emphatic and communication techniques to better serve the community, and develop the skills to navigate and identify community-based resources that address the needs of various populations.
Research projects
Modeling the Impact and Costs of Primary Healthcare on Diabetes and Hypertension Outcomes in Hong Kong
Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of DHC impact on population health
Conducting Asset Mapping in Community Health: A Comprehensive Methodological Guide Using Hong Kong as an Example
Research
Drawing on expertise from Singapore’s health system and population health initiatives, the event offered perspectives on how to strengthen primary healthcare by reshaping mindsets and care models to deliver inclusive, person-centred care.
Public Lecture:
Primary HealthCare in the Digital Age: Mindset, Models, Movement
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Extended Discussion Sessions:
Improving Healthspan: Context, Coherence, Community
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Building on the exchange, new research initiatives on social prescribing will be convened.
Heat-related deaths have risen to become the 10th leading cause of death in Hong Kong, despite being largely preventable. The programme aims to address this challenge through education at District Health Centres (DHCs) and the development of a coordinated Hong Kong Heat Health Plan. In addition, the School of Public Health organised a series of Heat Health roundtables in 2025, to strengthen preparedness ahead of future heat waves and foster a collective impact approach.
Heat Health Roundtables
•Systematic strategies to take stock of community public health assets, and ways of developing impactful changes from a bottom‑up strategy
•Modelling the Excess Mortality attributable to Heat Waves in Hong Kong
•Heat‑Health Action Plans: A Global Assessment of Urban Readiness and the Urgent Need for Action
•Multisectoral approaches to health in all policies applied to heat health action planning
•Devising a multisectoral public policy to address the comprehensive nature of Comprehensive Primary Health Care Issues
The event provided a platform for researchers to listen to the priorities and unresolved questions raised by practitioners, fostering meaningful dialogue across sectors. These exchanges helped strengthen relationships that are essential for building resilience in addressing current and emerging health challenges in Hong Kong. Discussions covered a wide range of topics, including tobacco control, health promotion, vaccine hesitancy, ageing, and mental health.
Over 50 members of Hong Kong’s public health research and practice community gathered to foster new connections across disciplines and partners.
Events
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Co-creating Better Health in Hong Kong
The workshop highlighted how the Support, Appreciate, Learn/Listen, Transfer (SALT) and Community Life Competence Process (CLCP) approaches have enabled communities worldwide to develop their own solutions to complex health and social challenges. Participants explored how SALT‑CLCP has been applied across diverse contexts, including healthy ageing, healthy workplaces, HIV/AIDS, refugee support, and community well‑being. The session was delivered by Marlou de Rouw, co‑founder of the Constellation, in collaboration with faculty members from the University of Hong Kong and Mahidol University, fostering rich cross‑institutional and cross‑sectoral exchange.
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