Chung, G. K., Hung, H., Vargas, D. C., Lee, W., Sharma, B., Tong, L. S., Tang, T. L., Munir, H., Wong, C. Y., Wong, E. L., Dong, D., & Yeoh, E. K. (2024). Risk Factors Associated With General and Abdominal Obesity Among South Asian Minorities in Hong Kong. Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education, 10901981241267992. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10901981241267992

Chung, G. K., Lee, W., Vargas, D. C., Sharma, B., Sun, K. S., Hung, H., Tong, L. S., Tang, T. L., Munir, H., Wong, C. Y., Pun, S., Chio, M. H., Wong, E. L., Dong, D., & Yeoh, E. K. (2025). Cardiovascular risk profiling among South Asian adults in Hong Kong: a latent class analysis. International journal for equity in health, 24(1), 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-025-02376-8

JCSATH. (2025). Prevalence and determinants of anaemia in South Asian diaspora women residing in Hong Kong: an exploratory cross-sectional study. Journal of migration and health. In press.  

Local Research

Chronic Diseases

Nichini, E., Asim, S., Ansar, A., & Dong, D. (2024). Beyond individual responsibility towards healthy food choices: A qualitative study among Pakistani women in Hong Kong. Appetite, 197, 107299–107299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2024.107299.

Chen, C. X., & Chan, K. (2015). Management of hypertension in Hong Kong’s ethnic minority groups: any gaps in blood pressure control? HK Pract, 37, 59–65.

Chen, C. X., & Chan, K. (2014). Type 2 diabetes management in Hong Kong ethnic minorities: what primary care physicians need to know. Hong Kong Medical Journal.

Infectious Diseases

Asim, S., Wang, K., Nichini, E., Yip, F. F., Zhu, L., Fung, H. C. E., Zeng, Y., Fang, Z., Cheung, A. W. L., Wong, E. L. Y., Dong, D., & Yeoh, E. K. (2023). COVID-19 Vaccination Preferences Among Non-Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong: Discrete Choice Experiment. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 9, e40587–e40587. https://doi.org/10.2196/40587

Gilbert T. Chua, Cheung Lok Yan, Wilfred HS Wong, Siddharth Sridhar, Kelvin KW To, Joseph Lau, Sharmila Gurung, Shalini Mahtani, Raymond Ho, Wing Sum Li, Jason CS Yam, Jaime S Rosa Duque, Ian C K Wong, Yu Lung Lau, Mike Yat Wah Kwan & Patrick Ip (2022) COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy among ethnic minorities in Hong Kong, Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 18:5, DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2022.2054261

Leung, L. Y. (2022). ‘No South Asian Riders, Please’: The Politics of Visibilisation in Platformed Food Delivery Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong. Critical Sociology, 089692052210914. https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205221091449

Wong, C.L., Leung, A.W.Y., Chan, D.N.S. et al. Psychological Wellbeing and Associated Factors Among Ethnic Minorities During the COVID-19 Pandemic. J Immigrant Minority Health (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-022-01347-3

Lui, I. D., Vandan, N., Davies, S. E., Harman, S., Morgan, R., Smith, J., Wenham, C., & Grépin, K. A. (2021). “We also deserve help during the pandemic”: The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong. Journal of Migration and Health, 3, 100037. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmh.2021.100037

Singh, A., Lai, A. H., Wang, J., Asim, S., Chan, P. S.-F., Wang, Z., & Yeoh, E. K. (2021). Multilevel determinants of COVID-19 vaccine uptake among South Asian ethnic minorities in Hong Kong: Cross-sectional web-based survey. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 7(11). https://doi.org/10.2196/31707

Wong, C. L., Chen, J., Chow, K. M., Law, B. M. H., Chan, D. N. S., So, W. K. W., … Chan, C. W. H. (2020). Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Towards COVID-19 Amongst Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(21), 7878. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217878

Healthcare Utilization

Asim, S., Nichini, E., Goggins, W. B., Dong, D., & Yeoh, E. K. (2023). Maternity care experience of Pakistani ethnic minority women in Hong Kong. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, 1009214–1009214. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1009214

Chan, D. N., So, W. K. (2022). Influential barriers perceived by South Asians in Hong Kong to undergoing cervical cancer screening. European Journal of Cancer Care, 31(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/ecc.13556

So, W. K., Law, B. M., Choi, K. C., Chan, D. N., & Chan, C. W. (2020). A Mixed-Method Study Examining Cancer Screening Uptake among South Asian Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong. Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing, 7(1), 12–17.

Vandan, N., Wong, J. H., Gong, W. J., Yip, P. F., & Fong, D. T. (2020). Health system responsiveness in Hong Kong: a comparison between South Asian and Chinese patients’ experiences. Public Health, 182, 81–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2020.01.019

Lo, K.C., Kwan, C.K., Strategies and Actions for Promoting the Mental Health of Ethnic Minorities (Policy Paper 17), Research Centre for Sustainable Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, October 2020

Vandan, N., Wong, J. Y.-H., & Fong, D. Y.-T. (2019). Accessing health care: Experiences of South Asian ethnic minority women in Hong Kong. Nursing & Health Sciences, 21(1), 93–101.

Vandan, N., Wong, J. Y., Lee, J. J., Yip, P. S., & Fong, D. Y. (2019). Challenges of healthcare professionals in providing care to South Asian ethnic minority patients in Hong Kong: A qualitative study. Health & Social Care in the Community, 28(2), 591–601. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12892

Overseas Research

Chronic Diseases

Gujral, U. P., Pradeepa, R., Weber, M. B., Narayan, K. M. V., & Mohan, V. (2013). Type 2 diabetes in South Asians: similarities and differences with white Caucasian and other populations. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1281(1), 51–63.

Infectious Diseases

Mathur, R., Rentsch, C. T., Morton, C. E., Hulme, W. J., Schultze, A., MacKenna, B., … Goldacre, B. (2021). Ethnic differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19-related hospitalisation, intensive care unit admission, and death in 17 million adults in England: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform. The Lancet, 397(10286), 1711–1724.

Maternal & Child Health

Huang, Y., Shallcross, D., Pi, L., Tian, F., Pan, J., & Ronsmans, C. (2018). Ethnicity and maternal and child health outcomes and service coverage in western China: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet Global Health, 6(1), e39–e56.

Small R, Roth C, Raval M, Shafiei T, Korfker D, Heaman M, McCourt C, Gagnon A. Immigrant and non-immigrant women’s experiences of maternity care: a systematic and comparative review of studies in five countries. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2014 Apr 29;14:152. doi: 10.1186/1471-2393-14-152