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Video - About Health and Medical Research Fund


Keynote Lectures:

• Research on Noncommunicable Diseases (Introduction) (Video)
• Systematic Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions to Improve Health: A Route to Success? (Introduction) (Slides)
• Big Data in Health and Medicine: Issues and Challenges (Introduction) (Slides)
• What is mPossible? Leveraging Mobile Technology for Community Health and Global Health Systems (Introduction) (Slides)

Parallel Sessions:

1 - Health and Health Services

• In-depth Cost-effectiveness Study of the Multidisciplinary Risk Factor Assessment and Management Programme (RAMP) of the Hospital Authority (Abstract) (Slides)
• Sustainability of Treatment Effect of a 3-year Early Intervention Programme for First-episode Psychosis in Hong Kong (Abstract) (Slides)
• Lifestyle Intervention in Obese Chinese Adolescents with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Randomized Controlled Study (Abstract) (Slides)
• Chinese Herbal Medicine (MaZiRenWan) for Functional Constipation: A Prospective, Double-blinded, Double-dummy, Randomized, Controlled Study (Abstract) (Slides)

2 - Advanced Medical Research

• Autonomic Dysfunction as Measured by Ewing's Battery Test to Predict Poor Outcome after Acute Ischemic Stroke (Abstract) (Slides)
• Uncovering Resistant Genes in EGFR-mutated Lung Adenocarcinomas Prior to Targeted Therapy (Abstract)
• Persistence of Ciguatera Fish Poisoning and its AssociatedNeurological Manifestations in Mice (Abstract) (Slides)
• Uncovering the Genetic Lesions Underlying the Most Severe Form of Hirschsprung (HSCR) Disease by Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS): A Pilot Study in 8 Family Trios (Abstract) (Slides)

3 - Health Promotion

• Promotion and Brief Intervention of Smoking Cessation at the Smoking Hotspots (Abstract) (Slides)
• “WE WRAP”: An Innovative Empowerment and Education Program for People with Mental Health Challenge and Young People (Abstract) (Slides)
• A Geographical Study of Child Injury in Hong Kong: Spatial Variation among 18 Districts (Abstract) (Slides)
• Every Women Counts - Cancer Prevention amongst Ethnic Minority Women (Abstract) (Slides)

4 - Infectious Diseases

• Efficacy of Combined Influenza and 23-valent Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccines in Patients with Chronic Illness (Abstract) (Slides)
• Human Parechovirus Infection in Hong Kong Neonates, Infants and Young Children (Abstract) (Slides)
• Evaluating the Health Economics of Routine Female Adolescent HPV Vaccination for Reducing the Burden of Cervical Cancer in Hong Kong (Abstract) (Slides)
• Modelling the Impacts of PrEP Intervention on the HIV Epidemic in MSM in Hong Kong (Abstract) (Slides)

Poster Session:

Abstracts of Poster Presentation