Professor Tze-wai Wong

Biography

Professor Wong Tze Wai is an environmental epidemiologist and occupational physician with experience in public health practice and research in infectious diseases, environmental health and occupational health. He was educated in The University of Hong Kong and the National University of Singapore. Professor Wong was experienced in compressed air illness in the mid-1970s and the health care of Vietnamese refugees in the early 1980s. His research on hantaviruses in Singapore led to the isolation of a new strain of Seoul-like hantavirus in rodents, and was awarded the Certificate of Merit by Kore University. He was involved in the investigation of the SARS outbreak in the Prince of Wales Hospital in 2003. He has conducted many studies on air pollution and health for over 20 years. He developed the Air Quality Health Index, now in use in Hong Kong. His recent studies are focused on the health impact of air pollution. He has published 199 papers in peer-reviewed medical journals, 130 conference papers or abstracts, contributed to 11 books / chapters and 43 research reports. He has served as a member of the Advisory Council on the Environment and is currently a scientific adviser of the Hong Kong Observatory. ​

Research Interest

Air pollution Persistent organic pollutants Infectious diseases Occupational medicine