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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

Prof Satoshi Araki

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

Prof Satoshi Araki

FoSS Internal Seed Grant 2024-2025 -Explaning Education/ Skills-Based Gradients in Multimensional Well-Being and Ill-Being : A Comparative Study

Prof Satoshi Araki

Do home modifications prevent disability and reduce disability-related outcomes? A multinational longitudinal comparative study of older adults living at home and their caregivers.

Prof Tarani Chandola

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

Prof Eric W C Fong

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

Prof Travis S K Kong

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

Prof Karen A Joe Laidler

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

Prof Xiaoli Tian

FoSS Internal Seed Grant 2024-2025 -Stress, Skills, and Society: A Pilot Study to Expand HK-CHILD's Investigation of Childhood Mental Health

Prof Duoduo Xu
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