Professor Jean Hee KIM (金真希教授)
AB (UC, Berkeley), SM, ScD (Harv.)
Deputy Director, Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response
and 
Assistant Professor 

Jean Kim has a background in both laboratory science and social sciences with training in molecular biology and anthropology. She completed her graduate work at Harvard University in HIV epidemiology with sub-concentrations in nutritional epidemiology and reproductive health.  She came to Hong Kong as a recipient of Harvard University’s Sinclair-Kennedy Scholarship. 

• Teaching of post-graduate epidemiological methods
• Clinical epidemiology for Medical students
• Undergraduate public health and epidemiology courses

• Assistant Director of Master of Public Health Programme
• Deputy Director,  Centre for Health and Behavioural Studies
• Post-graduate course coordinator for post-graduate Medical Sociology, Qualitative Methods, and  Medical Anthropology modules
• Course coordinator for undergraduate Epidemiology module

• Social epidemiology
• Adolescent health
• Sexual health & reproductive health technologies
• Internet addiction
• Alcohol policy

Kim JH, Spiegelman D., Rimm E., Gorbach SL. The correlates of dietary intake among HIV-positive adults  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, December 2001 
               
Kim JH, Lee S, Chow JK, Lau JTF, Choi J, Griffiths SM. Prevalence and factors associated with binge drinking, alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence: A population-based study of Chinese adults in Hong Kong. Alcohol & Alcoholism,2008 May-Jun;43(3):360-70

Kim JH, Lau CH, Griffiths SM. Suicide and internet use levels-- the evidence is lacking. BMJ Rapid Responses (21 April 2008).

Kim JH, Cheuk KK, Lau JTF.  Prevalence and factors associated with sexlessness among married Chinese adults in Hong Kong—a population-based study with a comparative analysis of single adults.
 J Sex Med. 2009 Jun 29. [Epub ahead of print]

Kim JH, Lau CH, Cheuk KK, Kan P, Hui HLC & Griffiths SM. Predictors of heavy Internet use and associations with health-promoting and health risk behaviors among Hong Kong university students. J Adolescence Available online 7 May 2009.

CORRESPONDING  & CO-AUTHOR  PUBLICATIONS 

Lau JTF, Kim JH., Tsui HY. Prevalence and socio-cultural predictors of sexual  dysfunction among Chinese men who have sex with men in Hong Kong. Journal of Sexual Medicine (2008)
 

 Lau JT, Lau M, Kim JH, Wong E, Tsui HY, Tsang T, Wong TW. Probable secondary infections in households of SARS patients in Hong Kong.  Emerging Infectious Diseases 2004 Feb;10(2):235-43.

Lau, JT, Fung KS, Wong TW, Kim JH, Wong E, Chung S, Ho, D, Chan LY, Lui SF, Cheng A.SARS transmission among hospital workers in Hong Kong. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2004 Feb;10 (2):280-6.

Lau JT, Kim JH, Lau M, Tsui HY. Prevalence and risk behaviors of Hong Kong males who seek cross-border same-sex partners in mainland China Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2004 Sep;31(9):568-74
   
Lau JT, Kim JH, Tsui HY. Mental health and lifestyle correlates of sexual problems and sexual satisfaction in the heterosexual Hong Kong Chinese population. Urology 2005 66:1271-1281/Impact Factor=2.6
 
Lau JT, Kim JH, Lau M, Tsui HY. HIV-related behaviors and attitudes among Chinese men who have sex with men in Hong Kong: A population-based study. Sexually Transmitted Infections 2004 Dec;80(6):459-65
   
Lau JT. Kim JH, Tsui HY, Cheung A, Lau M.  The relationship between physical maltreatment and substance abuse among adolescents—a survey of 95,788 Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong. Journal of Adolescent Health 2005, 37(2):110-9

LP Li, JKW Chow, SM Griffiths, L Zhang, J Lam, Kim JH. University Peer Health Education: the Shantou, China Experience. J American College Health 2008 
   
CH Lau, SM Griffiths, JKW Chow, BYF Fong, P Kan, Kim JH. The Risk Factors of Heavy Internet Use and Correlations with Interpersonal Behaviours among University Entrants in Hong Kong. 
Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, Sept. 2008

    
RECENT PRESENTATIONS 

Speaker for Hong Kong Epidemiological Association, Annual General Meeting, Pathological internet use and internet addiction in Hong Kong: Preliminary results of a population-based survey.  (2008)

Poster presentation American Public Health Association (APHA), Washington D.C., 2007: Clinical and sociodemographic predictors of second colorectal cancers: A retrospective analysis of 297,000 patients.