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Dr Lau, Eric Ho Yin 劉浩然

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Honorary Assistant Professor

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School of Public Health

Faculty:

Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine

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Biography

Dr Eric Lau is an infectious disease epidemiologist with a focus on surveillance and transmission dynamics of infectious diseases in human and animals, and assessment of infection control measures. His previous work has contributed to the understanding and control of emerging human and zoonotic diseases such as SARS, MERS, scarlet fever, avian influenza A(H7N9) and COVID-19. His latest projects focus on characterizing the impact of healthcare-seeking behavior on infectious disease surveillance, transmission dynamics of hand-foot-and-mouth disease and surveillance strategy of avian influenza in live poultry markets. He is also actively involved in teaching and is the coordinator of two Advanced Statistics courses in the Master of Public Health programme.

Dr Lau has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles on statistics, epidemiology and disease surveillance. He has also contributed in reviewing manuscripts for various leading international journals, such as American Journal of Epidemiology, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Statistics in Medicine, Nature Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, Science and The Lancet Infectious Diseases. He serves as an Editorial Board Member at BMC Infectious Diseases and PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Honours, Awards & Prizes

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Awardees	Award Date	Honours / Awards / Prizes	Category
Leung, GM Lau, EHY Cowling, BJ Ali, ST Du, Z	2021-09-01	Highly commended entry in 2021 CSC Research Impact Awards – Taylor & Francis CSC Research implementation and uptake stream: Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, UK	Research Achievement
Leung, GM Lau, EHY Cowling, BJ Ali, ST Du, Z	2021-08-01	Faculty Research Output Prize 2021: Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed, HKSAR).	Research Achievement
Cheng, CTK Yuen, JCH Wu, CH Wong, SY Yuen, RMF Wong, KH Lau, EHY Wu, JTK Seto, WKW Liu, SHK Cheung, KSM	2019-02-01	Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award: HKU LKS Faculty of Medicine	Research Achievement
Yuen, RMF Wong, KH Lau, EHY Wu, JTK Seto, WKW Cheung, KSM Mak, LY	2019-02-01	Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award of 2019: Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong	Others
Leung, GM Lau, EHY Cowling, BJ Wu, JTK Fang, J Wu, P Ni, MY Yu, H	2014-12-01	Research Output Prize 2014: Yu H, Wu JT, Cowling BJ, Liao Q, Fang VJ, Zhou S, Wu P, Zhou H, Lau EH, Guo D, Ni MY, Peng Z, Feng L, Jiang H, Luo H, Li Q, Feng Z, Wang Y, Yang W, Leung GM. Effect of closure of live poultry markets on poultry-to-person transmission of avian influenza A H7N9 virus: an ecological study. Lancet. 2014; 383(9916): 541-8.: The University of Hong Kong	Research Achievement
Leung, GM Lau, EHY Cowling, BJ Wu, JTK Wu, P Tsang, KLT	2014-11-01	Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award 2014: Yu H.J., Cowling B.J., Feng L.Z., Lau E.H.Y., Liao Q.H., Tsang K.L., Peng Z.B., Wu P., Liu F.F., Fang J., Zhang H.L., Li M., Zeng L.J., Xu Z., Li Z.J., Luo H.M., Li Q., Feng Z.J., Cao B., Yang W.Z., Wu J.T.K., Wang Y. and Leung G.M., Human infection with avian influenza A H7N9 virus: An assessment of clinical severity, Lancet. 2013, 382(9887):138-45.	Research Achievement
Leung, GM Lau, EHY Cowling, BJ Fang, J Wu, P Ip, DKM Ni, MY Tsang, KLT	2014-11-01	Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award 2014: Cowling B.J., Jin L.M., Lau E.H.Y., Liao Q.H., Wu P., Jiang H., Tsang K.L., Zheng J.D., Fang J., Chang Z.R., Ni M.Y., Zhang Q., Ip D.K.M., Yu J.X., Li Y., Wang L.P., Tu W.X., Meng L., Wu J.T.K., Luo H.M., Li Q., Shu Y.L., Li Z.J., Feng Z.J., Yang W.Z., Wang Y., Leung G.M. and Yu H.J., Comparative epidemiology of human infections with avian influenza A H7N9 and H5N1 viruses in China: A population-based study of laboratory-confirmed cases, Lancet. 2013, 382(9887):129-37.: Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong.	Research Achievement
Ho, LM Lau, SY Lau, EHY Cowling, BJ	2009-12-02	Real time estimation of the effective reproductive number in the presence of reporting delay, Hong Kong novel influenza A/H1N1pdm epidemic (poster presentation): Poster Award at the Epidemics² Second International Conference on Infectious Diseases Dynamics, 2-4 December 2009, Athens, Greece	Research Achievement

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Professional Societies

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Term Period	Position	Professional Societies
01/2015-present	Scientific Program Committee	International Society for Disease Surveillance
01/2018-present	Elected Board Member	International Society for Disease Surveillance
12/2011-present	Research Committee	International Society for Disease Surveillance

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