WCRF International Grant panel member

Professor Tai HING LAM, MBBS, MD HK, MSc, MSc (OccMed) Lond, AFOM, FACOM, MFOM, MFCM, FFPHM, FFOM, FHKCCM, FHKAM (Community Medicine), FRCP (Edin), JP (Corresponding member)
Chair, Professor and Head of Department
School of Public Health, Department of Community Medicine
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Professor Lam graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong in 1975. He received an MSc degree in medical sociology and an MSc degree in occupational medicine in 1980 and 1981, respectively, from the University of London. He obtained his MD degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1988. He has been Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Hong Kong since 2000, Director of the Public Health Research Centre since 2004, and Director of School of Public Health since 2009.

He is a fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational Medicine, the UK Faculty of Public Health, the London Faculty of Occupational Medicine, the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (Community Medicine) and The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He was President of the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine from 1997 to 2001 and is currently Vice-Chairman of the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health and Co-Chair of the Grant Review Board, Research Council, Health, Welfare and Food Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR Government.

Professor Lam's research interests include occupational and environmental health, family planning and youth sexuality, adolescent health, the epidemiology of cancer, infectious diseases, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases and their risk factors, molecular epidemiology and health services research, with a major focus on tobacco and other lifestyle related diseases. He has published many papers in high-impact journals and was awarded a Commemorative Certificate and Medal by the World Health Organisation in 1998 on achievement worthy of international recognition in promoting the concept of tobacco-free societies, the China Tobacco Control Award in 2000 for distinguished contributions to tobacco control in China, a University Teaching Fellowship 1999-2000, Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award 2000-01, Outstanding Researcher Award 2001-02 by the University of Hong Kong.