Gabriel Leung: working for a healthier Hong Kong

Abstract

In 2008, when he was a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), Gabriel Leung was invited to join government service as Hong Kong's Under Secretary for Food and Health. [...]the experiment was successful and led to another and far bolder appointment: as Director of the Hong Kong Chief Executive's Office. In 2012, on returning to academic life after his period of government service, he became head of HKU's Department of Community Medicine; a year later he was appointed to his present position as Dean of HKU's Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine.