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环境与人类健康研究中心的项目研究团队由跨学科的学者组成，他们具有相关的专业知识、经验和兴趣，以推动和支持学院内有关环境和人类健康的研究。

项目持有人

Prof. Ronald Chung

Dean,
School of Continuing Education

团队成员

Dr. Sam Lau
(Team Leader)

Person-in-charge of the Research Centre for
Environment and Human Health,
Principal Lecturer of College of International Education

Dr. Stephen Robert
Cartwright

Academic Coordinator and Lecturer in Environmental Conservation Studies,
College of International Education

Dr. Sarah Choy

Academic Coordinator and
Lecturer in Life Science,
College of International Education

Dr. Amelia Lee

Associate Dean (Programme Development) and Head of Early Childhood and
Elementary Education

Dr. Sharron Leung

Head of Division of Nursing Education and Programme Director of Bachelor of Nursing (Hons)

Dr. Rebecca Pang

Lecturer,
Division of Nursing Education

Dr. Popsy Poon

Academic Coordinator and Lecturer in Health Sciences, College of International Education

Dr. Winnie Tai

Lecturer,
Division of Nursing Education

Dr. Alice Wong

Academic Coordinator and Lecturer,
Division of Nursing Education

Dr. Josephine Yau

Academic Coordinator in Psychology and
Lecturer, College of International Education

Mr. Leslie Kam

Lecturer in Sports and Health Living,
Continuing and Professional Education Division

著名学者
Prof. Roger Ho
Prof. Roger Ho
Strategic Research Area - Environment and Health

National University Hospital;

Institute for Health Innovation and Technology,

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Prof. Roger Ho is a Tenured Professor and Senior Consultant Psychiatrist at the National University of Singapore. He is the Principal Investigator of the Institute for Health Innovation and Technology at NUS. His research focuses on global mental health and infrared light brain imaging. He obtained his medical degree (MBBS) and higher research degree (MD) from the University of Hong Kong. He is a Fellow and Member of more than ten Royal Colleges of Psychiatrists and Physicians worldwide. He has published more than 500 papers. In 2021 and 2022, he had been named one of the highly cited researchers in the world by the Clarivate Analytics (Top 1%).
Research Interest
  • Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
  • Borderline personality disorder
  • Major depressive disorder
  • Dementia
Recent Publications

Wang C, Pan R, Wan X, Tan Y, Xu L, Ho CS, Ho RC. Immediate Psychological Responses and Associated Factors during the Initial Stage of the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Epidemic among the General Population in China. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Mar 6;17(5):1729. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17051729. PMID: 32155789; PMCID: PMC7084952.

Wang C, Pan R, Wan X, Tan Y, Xu L, McIntyre RS, Choo FN, Tran B, Ho R (Corresponding), Sharma VK, Ho C. A longitudinal study on the mental health of general population during the COVID-19 epidemic in China. Brain Behav Immun. 2020 Jul;87:40-48. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2020.04.028. Epub 2020 Apr 13. PMID: 32298802; PMCID: PMC7153528.

Husain SF, Tang TB, Yu R, Tam WW, Tran B, Quek TT, Hwang SH, Chang CW, Ho CS, Ho RC. Cortical haemodynamic response measured by functional near infrared spectroscopy during a verbal fluency task in patients with major depression and borderline personality disorder. EBioMedicine. 2020 Jan;51:102586. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2019.11.047. Epub 2019 Dec 24. PMID: 31877417; PMCID: PMC6938854.

Liu Y, Ho RC, Mak A. Interleukin (IL)-6, tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and soluble interleukin-2 receptors (sIL-2R) are elevated in patients with major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis and meta-regression. J Affect Disord. 2012 Aug;139(3):230-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2011.08.003. Epub 2011 Aug 26. PMID: 21872339.

Hao F, Tan W, Jiang L, Zhang L, Zhao X, Zou Y, Hu Y, Luo X, Jiang X, McIntyre RS, Tran B, Sun J, Zhang Z, Ho R (corresponding), Ho C, Tam W. Do psychiatric patients experience more psychiatric symptoms during COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown? A case-control study with service and research implications for immunopsychiatry. Brain Behav Immun. 2020 Jul;87:100-106. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2020.04.069. Epub 2020 Apr 27. PMID: 32353518; PMCID: PMC7184991.

Puthran R, Zhang MW, Tam WW, Ho RC. Prevalence of depression amongst medical students: a meta-analysis. Med Educ. 2016 Apr;50(4):456-68. doi: 10.1111/medu.12962. PMID: 26995484.

Wang C, Tee M, Roy AE, Fardin MA, Srichokchatchawan W, Habib HA, Tran BX, Hussain S, Hoang MT, Le XT, Ma W, Pham HQ, Shirazi M, Taneepanichskul N, Tan Y, Tee C, Xu L, Xu Z, Vu GT, Zhou D, Koh BJ, McIntyre RS, Ho C, Ho RC (Corresponding), Kuruchittham V. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on physical and mental health of Asians: A study of seven middle-income countries in Asia. PLoS One. 2021 Feb 11;16(2):e0246824. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246824. PMID: 33571297; PMCID: PMC7877638.

Wang C, Chudzicka-Czupała A, Tee ML, Núñez MIL, Tripp C, Fardin MA, Habib HA, Tran BX, Adamus K, Anlacan J, García MEA, Grabowski D, Hussain S, Hoang MT, Hetnał M, Le XT, Ma W, Pham HQ, Reyes PWC, Shirazi M, Tan Y, Tee CA, Xu L, Xu Z, Vu GT, Zhou D, Chan NA, Kuruchittham V, McIntyre RS, Ho CSH, Ho R (corresponding), Sears SF. A chain mediation model on COVID-19 symptoms and mental health outcomes in Americans, Asians and Europeans. Sci Rep. 2021 Mar 19;11(1):6481. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-85943-7. PMID: 33742072; PMCID: PMC7979938.

Li Z, McIntyre RS, Husain SF, Ho R (corresponding), Tran BX, Nguyen HT, Soo SC, Ho CS, Chen N. Identifying neuroimaging biomarkers of major depressive disorder from cortical hemodynamic responses using machine learning approaches. EBioMedicine. 2022 May;79:104027. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.104027. Epub 2022 Apr 28. PMID: 35490557; PMCID: PMC9062667.

Ho RC, Sharma VK, Tan BYQ, Ng AYY, Lui YS, Husain SF, Ho CS, Tran BX, Pham QH, McIntyre RS, Chan ACY. Comparison of Brain Activation Patterns during Olfactory Stimuli between Recovered COVID-19 Patients and Healthy Controls: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Study. Brain Sci. 2021 Jul 23;11(8):968. doi: 10.3390/brainsci11080968. PMID: 34439587; PMCID: PMC8391911.

Husain SF, Tang TB, Yu R, Tam WW, Tran B, Quek TT, Hwang SH, Chang CW, Ho CS, Ho RC. Cortical haemodynamic response measured by functional near infrared spectroscopy during a verbal fluency task in patients with major depression and borderline personality disorder. EBioMedicine. 2020 Jan;51:102586. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2019.11.047. Epub 2019 Dec 24. PMID: 31877417; PMCID: PMC6938854.

Dr. Alexandre Erler
Strategic Research Area - Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

 

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

 

Dr. Alexandre Erler is a philosopher studying issues arising from new technologies with the potential to significantly transform society and the human condition, including artificial intelligence, genetic interventions, and direct interventions into the brain (using drugs, brain stimulation, and other tools). He completed a doctorate in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he was affiliated with the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. From 2017 to 2022, he was a Research Associate Professor in Philosophy and Bioethics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is now an Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, in Taipei. He has written on various philosophical, ethical and political issues raised by biomedical technologies, including their potential impact on human identity and authenticity. His work has been published in journals such as Bioethics, the American Journal of Bioethics, Neuroethics, the Journal of Medical Ethics, the Journal of Applied Philosophy, and AJOB Neuroscience.
Research Interest
  • Philosophy of artificial intelligence
  • Neuroethics
  • Biomedical ethics
  • Technology and politics
  • Philosophy of personal identity
Recent Publications

“AI as IA: The Use and Abuse of AI for Human Enhancement Through Intellectual Augmentation”. Co-authored with Vincent C. Müller. Forthcoming in: Marcello Ienca and Fabrice Jotterand (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement (Routledge).

“Memory Erasure and the Objection from Truthfulness”. Forthcoming in Medicina nei Secoli – Journal of the History of Medicine and Medical Humanities.

“Future Persons, Future Attributes, and Potential Persons: Commentary on Savulescu et al.” (2022). Journal of Medical Ethics. Published Online First: 21 July 2022. DOI: 10.1136/jme-2022-108526.

“Mapping the Ethical Issues of Brain Organoid Research and Application” (2022). Co-authored with Tsutomu Sawai, Yoshiyuki Hayashi, Takuya Niikawa, Joshua Shepherd, Elizabeth Thomas, Hideya Sakaguchi, Momoko Watanabe, and Tsung-Ling Lee. AJOB Neuroscience 13 (2), 81-94.

“The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act: Should Some Applications of AI Be Beyond the Pale?”. Invited article for the blog of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Hong Kong, 3 January 2022. URL = https://hk.boell.org/en/2022/01/03/eus-artificial-intelligence-act-should-some-applications-ai-be-beyond-pale.

“The Ethics of Biomedical Military Research: Therapy, Prevention, Enhancement, and Risk” (2021). Co-authored with Vincent C. Müller. In: Daniel Messelken and David Winkler (eds.), Health Care in Contexts of Risk, Uncertainty, and Hybridity (Springer), pp. 235-252.

“Neuro-doping and the Value of Effort in Endurance Sports” (2021). Neuroethics 14, 191-203. DOI: 10.1007/s12152-020-09450-8.

“Discussions of DBS in Neuroethics: Can We Deflate the Bubble Without Deflating Ethics?” (2021). Neuroethics 14, 75-81. DOI: 10.1007/s12152-019-09412-9.

“Ethical and Regulatory Considerations for the Clinical Translation of Somatic Cell Human Epigenetic Editing” (2021). Co-authored with Nikolajs Zeps, Tamra Lysaght, Ruth Chadwick, Roger Foo, Simona Giordano, Poh San Lai, G. Owen Schaefer, Wei Leong Chew, and Jeremy Sugarman. Stem Cell Reports 16 (7), 1652-1655.

“Editing the Human Genome: Great New Dawn for Medical Science, or Brave New World?” Invited article for the blog of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Hong Kong, 16 December 2020. URL = https://hk.boell.org/en/2020/12/16/editing-human-genome-great-new-dawn-medical-science-or-brave-new-world.

“Using a Public Health Ethics Framework to Unpick Discrimination in COVID-19 Responses” (2020). Co-authored with Roger Chung, Hon-lam Li and Derrick Au. American Journal of Bioethics (special issue on COVID-19), 20 (7), 114-116.

“Neuroenhancement” (2020). Co-authored with Cynthia Forlini. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online. URL = https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/neuroenhancement/v-1.

“Neuroenhancement, Coercion, and Neo-Luddism” (2020). In: Nicole A. Vincent, Thomas Nadelhoffer and Allan McCay (eds.), Neuro-Interventions and the Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 375-405.

“Ethical Perspectives on Advances in Biogerontology” (2019). Co-authored with Jean Woo, David Archard, Derrick Au, Sara Bergstresser, Timothy Kwok, John Newman, Raymond Tong, and Tom Walker. Aging Medicine 2 (2), 99-103.

“The Limits of the Treatment-Enhancement Distinction as a Guide to Public Policy” (2017). Bioethics 31 (8), 608-615.

The Research Centre for Environment and Human Health was supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the HKSAR, China (Project No. UGC/IDS(R) 23/20).

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