Professor Greta Chun-huen Tam

Biography

Professor Greta Tam graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong in 2010, after matriculating at the University of Oxford to study biochemistry. She obtained her masters in global health at the University of California, San Francisco.  She is currently an associate fellow of the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine and a diplomate member of the Faculty of Public Health, UK.  In 2014, she was awarded the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine Training and Research Scholarship to participate in Harvard University’s yearlong Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Program.  In 2016, she passed the Part II HKCCM exam.    She has a long-standing interest in global health, particularly in infectious diseases.  She is principal investigator of an HMRF grant on opt-out HIV testing in the outpatient setting and co-investigator on grants for tuberculosis and influenza research.  She has worked at the Shanghai Medical Children’s centre, Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in New Delhi, Grameen Bank in Dhaka as well as spending time at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh. Her master’s thesis was on anti-malarial drug resistance in Ugandan children.   ​

Research Interest

Infectious diseases Global health