Research Highlights
The Suicide Watch
Professor Paul Yip Siu-fai has been tracking Hong Kong’s suicide rate for more than two decades and developing programmes to help reduce it. The recent period has been one of the worst for young and old alike.
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Alarm bells are ringing about social media’s ability to quickly convey and amplify false or harmful information, such as content intended to mislead voters or promote anti-vaccination and other dubious health advice. HKU researchers consider what makes news ‘fake’, how social media affects China’s information landscape and the legal challenges to regulating platforms. They are also training fact-checkers and seeking to understand the effects of social media on the brain.
More Living in an InfodemicThree HKUMed Scholars Acquire International Accolades
Researchers of the LKS Faculty of Medicine of HKU (HKUMed) have acquired three international accolades: 2023 William B. Coley Award from the Cancer Research Institute (CRI) for Professor Tak Mak Tak-wah, Department of Pathology, School of Clinical Medicine; Associate Member of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) for Professor Kathryn Cheah Song-eng, School of Biomedical Sciences; and Member of the Academia Europaea for Professor Chak-sing Lau, Dean of Medicine.
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