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Dr Lai, Tsz Tsun Francisco 黎子駿

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Research Assistant Professor

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Dr Lai, Tsz Tsun Francisco 黎子駿

Title:
Research Assistant Professor

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Short Biography:

Dr. Francisco Lai is a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, HKUMed. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in economics and finance from HKUST Business School in 2013 (graduating with Dean’s Award in Social Science) and his Ph.D. degree in public health from CUHK Medicine in 2019. He received the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship (for Postgraduate Students) 2018/19 in recognition of the potential societal significance of his Ph.D. research and was awarded the RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2020/21, inaugural exercise) in support of his postdoctoral training at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He joined the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in March 2021.

Francisco is a big-data pharmacoepidemiologist focused on the double burden of infectious and non-communicable diseases as well as physical and mental disorders, i.e., multimorbidity, among vulnerable populations. His first-/ corresponding-author research articles are published in high-impact journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine (IF = 51.598), Journal of the American College of Cardiology (IF = 27.203), Nature Communications (IF = 17.694), and Canadian Medical Association Journal (IF = 16.882). He has published more than 75 scholarly journal articles, with an H-Index of 15 (Web of Science, as of November 2022)

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Picture: Francisco being interviewed on his pharmacoepidemiologic research on COVID-19 vaccines in 時事全方位 (Now新聞), a televised program on Now TV on August 31, 2022 (Source: https://news.now.com/home/local/player?newsId=488573&utm_source=nowNewsAppShare&utm_medium=referral)

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Picture: Francisco and his research assistants and students

Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
2013The Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyBSc in Economics and Finance
2016The Education University of Hong KongMPhil
2019The Chinese University of Hong KongPhD in Public Health
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