Professor Dennis Ip
Clinical Associate Professor and Head of Division of Community Medicine and Public Health Practice, SPH, HKU
Clinical Associate Professor and Head of Division of Community Medicine and Public Health Practice, SPH, HKU
Professor Ip is currently Clinical Associate Professor and Division Head of the Division of Community Medicine and Public Health Practice in the School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong. He obtained his medical training from the University of Hong Kong. He received postgraduate training in Infectious Disease, Travel Medicine, Epidemiology, Statistics and Applied Mathematics, and obtained his MD degree in 2017. He underwent specialty training in Public Health in Hong Kong, and was trained in Public Health Genomics as a Visiting Fellow at Hughes Hall and the PHG Foundation of University of Cambridge. He is a founder member of the Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, a fellow of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine and its Faculty of Travel Medicine, and a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
His research work focuses on generating scientific knowledge for informing evidence-based clinical and public health practices in the preparedness and mitigation of influenza epidemics and pandemics. He major research interests include epidemiology of influenza transmission and novel approach of disease surveillance in various community settings, effective health promotion and disease control in the school setting, genetic determinants of influenza infection, impact of seasonal influenza vaccination programme, impact of antipyretic and antibiotic usage on influenza transmission, travel related diseases, and the impact of genetic development on public health practice.
He serves as a consultant for the World Health Organization on the development of infectious disease surveillance systems in China, and as a member of the Genetic Testing Formulary Scientific Committee of the Hospital Authority. He is a member of the Grant Review Board for the Health and Medical Research Fund of the Hong Kong SAR Government. He reviews manuscripts regularly for various international peer-review journals and is a statistical advisor for the editorial board of the journal PLoS ONE.