Population Approaches to Tackle Addictive Behaviours

Project Summary:
Smoking and alcohol use are the two out of the four leading lifestyle risk factors for non-communicable diseases worldwide, and cause tremendous health and economic burden particularly for developing countries. Our research group aims in reducing these addictive behaviours and the related harms through population based approaches. We are keen in developing brief, scalable, sustainable and effective interventions which will be translated into practice and influence the policy. Effectiveness of these innovative interventions are assessed rigorously using large scale pragmatic randomised controlled trials to generate highest level of evidence. Some of these interventions have been used currently in Hong Kong and the region. More proactive and innovative interventions leveraging the advanced mobile-phone technologies are currently being developed and tested. Disseminating these evidence in top journal is one of our priorities.

Deliverables:
Academic paper, conference abstract, report, intervention protocol and/or computer program

Preferred discipline(s):
health-related, social science, psychology, and computer engineering

Project Essential Skills:
basic knowledge on statistics or data science

Other Selection Criteria (if any):
interested in developing and testing new behavioural interventions

Details of supervision arrangements:
No wet lab required. Progress meeting using hybrid mode and participate in team meetings and academic presentations.