Hong Kong Red Cross, Mother’s Choice and Médecins Sans Frontières Hong Kong, to provide placements and support student-initiated voluntary service projects. Alumni are also being engaged to provide more mentorship and other development opportunities for students. Research is the other major focus of partnerships. According to Professor Hung, while alumni and the community can help in this regard through donations and a willingness to be partners in basic and clinical research, it is particularly important to engage with other institutions. ‘Good research nowadays basically needs to be multicentred, especially for clinical trials. Even basic science research has become multicentred. This requires support from the Mainland and the rest of the world. By using the networks that we build, we will be able to facilitate our scientists and clinicians to find appropriate and respected partners for their research,’ he elaborated. ↓Professor Ivan Hung Fan-ngai (centre) and the Partnership & Engagement sub-deanery: (from left) Professor Winnie Tso Wan-yee, Professor Yiu Kai-hang, Professor Patrick Chung Ho-yu and Professor Jasper Chan Fuk-woo On top of the partnerships established at the department and individual level, Professor Hung and his team aim to solidify support for engagement at the Faculty level and help researchers find the best collaborators in the Mainland and worldwide. They also are assisting with the recruitment of non-JUPAS students and of researchers and clinician scientists from outside Hong Kong and the pursuit of funding support for collaborative research. ‘Our work cuts across almost all areas of the Faculty. We are working to iron out any issues with partners and support our colleagues in their work,’ he said. ‘By using the networks that we build, we will be able to facilitate our scientists and clinicians to find appropriate and respected partners for their research.’ Professor Ivan Hung Fan-ngai 19 HKUMed News Summer 2024
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