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Health, Wellbeing, and Medicine

This research cluster focuses on the social, political, economic, and policy determinants of health and wellbeing, and the inequality therein throughout the life course and across geographic areas. It also examines the institution of medicine, the history and evolution of Western and Chinese medicine, the relationship between medicine and society, the doctor-patient relationship, and the social construction of diseases and illnesses.

Research Projects

Ongoing Research Project

Principal Investigator

Well-being and Social Inequality in East Asia

Examining education and happiness inequalities around the world: Towards interdisciplinary research on human flourishing

Comparative study on the heterogeneous socio-economic returns to cognitive and noncognitive skills: Uncovering hidden inequalities in skills and well-being

Comparative research on happiness inequality among low-income individuals: Examining the socio-psychological risks and opportunities of the poor around the world

Centre for Society and Mental Health

Hong Kong General Social Survey (which is hosted by the Faculty)

A study on development and utilisation of an electronic sex diary to measure HIV behavioural risk in Hong Kong

An Intersectional Lens on Drug Use and Stigma Among Hard-to-Reach Populations in Hong Kong

Pathways to Harm Reduction Drug Policy in Hong Kong and East & Southeast Asia: Principles, Process and Practices (Project No. R7031-21)

Government Trust, Experiential Knowledge, and Mass Skepticism of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Self-health Management during COVID-19 in Mainland China and Hong Kong

Legitimacy, efficacy, and professional boundaries: Chinese medicine in Mainland China and Hong Kong

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