HKUMed 140th Anniversary Academic Event - WHOLE SYSTEM INTELLIGENCE FOR HEALTH

Date: November 19, 2026 (Thursday)

Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

Venue: Boardroom, 1/F, Daniel & Mayce Yu Administration Wing, Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road

Mode: In-person only

Free Registration: https://hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2l3904J6pfRugQe

CME / CNE accreditation: TBC

Topic: “Whole System Intelligence for Health’”

The move from paper-based to electronic health records creates an unprecedented opportunity to move health care into the digital era and through so doing develop whole system intelligence for health. In this presentation, Prof. Sir Aziz Sheikh will share examples of how such digitised infrastructures can be used – in real time – to integrate service delivery with the development of cutting-edge research capabilities to understand the epidemiology of disease, assess disease burden and assess the safety and effectiveness of interventions on a continuous basis. Aziz will conclude by arguing that this data-enabled transformation is vital to ensure provision of outstanding, cost-effective health care to our ageing populations.

Speaker: Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh

Sir Aziz Sheikh OBE is Nuffield Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, Head of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford. He was previously Chair of Primary Care Research and Development, Director of the Usher Institute and Dean of Data at the University of Edinburgh.  He has played important advisory roles to a number of governments, inter-governmental bodies, including the World Bank, World Health Organization, the World Innovation Summit for Health, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society. He has had >£200M in research grants, is a Clarivate Highly Cited author and has been awarded fellowships from 10 learned societies, including most recently the US’ National Academy of Medicine. Aziz was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for ‘Services to Medicine and Health Care’ in 2014 and a Knight Bachelor in 2022 for ‘Services to COVID-19 Research and Policy’.

This event is co-hosted by HKU Med’s Comprehensive Primary Healthcare Collaboratory.

Enquiry: fmpc@hku.hk / infocphc@hku.hk

Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care

The University of Hong Kong