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Professor Leung, Sze Man Kathy 梁詩敏

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Assistant Professor

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Professor Leung, Sze Man Kathy 梁詩敏

Title:
Assistant Professor

Short Biography:

Kathy Leung received her BS in Biological Sciences and Economics from School of Life Sciences and China Center for Economic Research at Peking University, MPhil and PhD from School of Public Health at The University of Hong Kong.

Kathy was initially a wet-bench trainee biochemist aiming to elucidate the signalling pathways of innate immunity against virus infections. Later she found her interest lies more in mathematics and statistics involved in biological processes. In recent years, her primary research is in mathematical modelling of a wide range of communicable and non-communicable diseases, such as influenza, MERS, hand-foot-and-mouth disease, HPV, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer and breast cancer. She also conducts epidemiological and economic evaluations of intervention strategies against communicable and non-communicable diseases, such as HFMD vaccination and breast cancer screening programmes. She was the core developer of HKU's first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Epidemics.

Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
Peking UniversityBS in Biological Sciences and Economics
The University of Hong KongMPhil
The University of Hong KongPhD
Honours, Awards & Prizes
AwardeesAward DateHonours / Awards / PrizesCategory
LEUNG, Man Chi
LUN, Kai Yin Phyllis
Yau, CYS
Flores, FPC
Yao, X
2021-08-01Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award: Ni MY, Yao XI, Leung KS, et al. Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress During Major Social Unrest in Hong Kong: a ten-year prospective cohort. Lancet 2020 Jan;395(10220):273-284: Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
2021-08-01Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award: Effects of adjusting public health, travel, and social measures during the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccination: a modelling study: LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
Professional Societies
Term PeriodPositionProfessional Societies
01/2024 - PresentMember of Immunization and vaccines related implementation research advisory committee (IVIR-AC)World Health Organization
11/2022 - PresentEditorial Board MemberEpidemics
07/2021 - 04/2024Editorial Board MemberBMC Medicine
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