Professor Eng-kiong Yeoh
Professor of Public Health and Director of Centre for Health Systems and Policy Research, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Professor of Public Health and Director of Centre for Health Systems and Policy Research, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Professor Eng-kiong Yeoh is Professor of Public Health and Director of the Centre for Health Systems and Policy Research at the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care (School) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was Director of the School from 2014-2020. His research is in health systems, services and policy with an interest in applying systems thinking in studying how the complex components of health systems interact and interrelate to improve health. He has recently completed 2 HMRF commissioned studies (i) investigating Hong Kong’s early detection, assessment and response system to COVID-19; and (ii) epidemic intelligence and a risk assessment system for the control of COVID-19. As a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 Global Research Roadmap Social Science Working Group, he has published a report funded by the WHO R&D Blueprint Novel Coronavirus on the key lessons for policy from a comparative study of government responses in six middle/ high income jurisdictions. In health systems research, he completed a commissioned study by the Macao Health Bureau to assess their population healthcare needs so as to inform the planning of services and resources necessary to meet the changing health needs of Macao population. He has evaluated a new primary care initiative of an innovative district health system in the 18 districts in Hong Kong. He has also studied the impact of a publicly funded elderly healthcare voucher scheme on healthcare utilisation in a segmented public and private provider healthcare system, and completed a study to review, develop and pilot integrated health service models for an ageing population. He has been commissioned by the Social Welfare Department to evaluate two pilot projects on (i) Residential Care Service Voucher for the Elderly and (ii) Support for Elderly Persons Discharged from Public Hospitals after Treatment with an aim to enhance the residential care and transitional care services for the elderly.
Professor Yeoh was Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region between 1999 and 2004. From 1990-1999, Professor Yeoh was head & the first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority.
