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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

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

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

Centre for Society and Mental Health

Prof Tarani Chandola

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

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

Prof Karen A Joe Laidler

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

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

Prof Xiaoli Tian

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

Prof Xiaoli Tian
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