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Solitary Lives – The Global Epidemic of Loneliness

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.

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Tipping the Scales for Public Health

Tipping 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.

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Measure of the Mutations

Measure 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.

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