Phillips David R.
Professor
Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Lingnan University (Hong Kong)
Hong Kong
Biography
David Phillips has been Chair Professor of Social Policy at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, since 1997. From 2004 to 2008, he was Academic Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Academic Dean of Social Sciences, 2008-2010. He was also Head of the Department of Sociology and Social Policy (1999-2004; 2014-2017), and Founder Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies (APIAS).
Research Interest
Global health: Epidemiology and Epidemiological transition
Publications
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Ageing and Long-term Care: National Policies in the Asia-Pacific, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Ottawa International Development Research Centre (IDRC), 2002. (with Alfred C M Chan, eds.)
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Ageing and place: perspectives, policy, practice, London and New York: Routledge, 2005. (with G. J. Andrews, eds.)
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Global health: an introduction to current and future trends. Routledge, 2012, Oxford and New York; Second edition, June 2017 (Kevin McCracken and David R. Phillips).
