Research Highlights
Solitary Lives – The Global Epidemic of Loneliness
Late last year, the World Health Organization launched a new commission tasked with assessing loneliness “as a pressing public health threat”. The announcement came on a groundswell of research showing loneliness can worsen mental and physical health. HKU researchers have been studying the scale and nature of the problem, and possible solutions.
More Solitary Lives – The Global Epidemic of LonelinessTipping the Scales for Public Health
Pandemics, vaccination programmes and other public health measures cannot succeed without good legal regimes. Professor Eric Ip Chi-yeung presents the case.
More Tipping the Scales for Public HealthMeasure of the Mutations
A cutting-edge screening platform enables rapid large-scale assessment and quantitative analysis of the severity and infective strength of SARS-CoV-2 mutations.
More Measure of the Mutations