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I M P L E M E N TI NG S C I E N TI F I C K N O WL E D G E

Impactful projects influence practice, policies and strategies

The School has a proven track record of translating research evidence to influence the healthcare practice, policy
and the strategic direction of services. In the past five years, HK$55.38 million (USD7.10M) has been received from
the Hong Kong Research Grant Council, Food and Health Bureau and other government departments, community
stakeholders and philanthropy to conduct science implementation projects. Such work has resulted in effective
care models to promote the health and chronic disease management of the population in Hong Kong and beyond.
The impact of selected implementation science projects over the past five years are listed as follow.

Principle Funding Project Title Project Aim / Impact
Investigator
Dr Patsy Chau Hong Kong Healthy Ageing in Public In collaboration with the Hong Kong Housing Authority, this project
Housing Rental Housing Estates pioneered a nurse-led primary care service model to provide
Authority Programme 2018-2021 highly accessible home-based and mobile health screening, health
exhibitions, brief health counselling and health talks on chronic
disease management and sarcopenia. To date, the initiative has
served over 10,000 older tenants and visitors in 45 public rental
housing estates.

Research Increasing the resilience This project will provide a methodological framework for incorporating
Impact Fund to the health impacts the scientific knowledge of extreme weather and its associated
of extreme weather on impacts on older adults' health and well-being into a comprehensive
elderly people under plan for response actions. The study findings will advance the current
future climate change weather information system to provide more precise district-based
data, so that multidisciplinary input from urban planners, architects,
health and social care professionals can be applied to build a
sustainable and healthy city under the vision of Hong Kong 2030+
for older adults.

Dr Derek Cheung Health Care Use of nicotine This project pioneered a blended method, which combined a 1-week
and Promotion replacement therapy free nicotine replacement therapy sample (NRTS), brief smoking
Scheme (NRT) sample and brief cessation advice and onsite active referral to smoking cessation
smoking cessation services, to increase the uptake of smoking cessation service in
advice for recruiting Hong Kong. The innovative method successfully increased smoking
smokers to smoking cessation and can be integrated with smoking cessation quitlines
cessation services and other smoking cessation services.
and motivating quit
attempts