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The ‘One Health’ Challenge

Health threats from animal and environmental sources are on the rise – not just from COVID-19, but antimicrobial resistance and other infectious diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). HKU academics have been at the forefront producing collaborative, multidisciplinary research to identify and control these threats.

Disunity of Purpose

Governance and laws relating to human, animal and ecological health are divided across the world, making it difficult to coordinate responses to emerging health threats. Dr Calvin Ho has been analysing the problem.

Chain Reactions

Professor Peng Gong, a geographer and environmental scientist, began applying his expertise to public health issues more than two decades ago when he focussed on tiny parasites. He has been scaling up ever since and today focusses on the One Health challenge from global climate change.

A New Angle on Views

It’s widely agreed that a view of nature is beneficial to our well-being. Now a new urban study uses open big data to see how view height is a factor too in high-rise cities like Hong Kong.

Vital Signs

A wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor with a novel high-performance memory transistor can detect atrial fibrillation and identify potential stroke patients.

Clicking with the Right People

Everyone knows social connections can open doors. Dr Feng Shihui argues this could also apply to connections made virtually through digital technologies, without ever meeting face-to-face.

Social Media and the Workplace

Social media is not only blurring the lines between home and work, but reinforcing workplace hierarchies, finds Dr Tian Xiaoli who has been researching social interactions online.

Simple Materials, Complex Outcomes

The Faculty of Architecture’s new Building Simplexity Laboratory has been created based on the philosophy that simplicity in construction can still facilitate spatially complex systems, and in this age of post-digital architecture, simple algorithmic design procedures can lead to complex geometrical built forms.

Leapin’ Lizards

The presence of predators and climatic warming are raising the temperature of lizards on Japan’s Izu Islands – perhaps enhancing their chances of survival.

The Appeal of Machine Justice

Jurisdictions around the world are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to help mete out justice, nowhere more so than in Mainland China. Legal scholar Dr Benjamin Chen has been studying the drivers and implications of this trend.

Connecting the Dots

HKU scholars have produced world-leading research on COVID-19, but that is only one part of their contribution to the concept of One Health, which involves human, animal and planetary health.