Prof. MING Wai Kit

Associate Professor
MD, PhD(JNU), MPH(HK), MMSc(Harvard), PostDoc(Oxon), PostDoc(Harvard) DipMed(CUHK), PDipCAH(HK), CertClinDerm(Lond), FRSPH(UK)
Office Address
Room 1A-503, 5/F, Block 1, To Yuen Building, 31 To Yuen Street, City University of Hong Kong
Office Tel
+852 3442-6956
Email
wkming2@cityu.edu.hk
Biography URL
CityUHK Scholars

Professor MING Wai Kit is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in Public Health and Epidemiology, Assistant Director of the Institute of Global Governance and Innovation for a Shared Future, and Programme Leader of the Master of Public Health (MPH) at the City University of Hong Kong. He is an experienced clinical doctor and medical educator, with over 15 years of experience teaching and mentoring medical students. To date, he has supervised more than 100 undergraduate and postgraduate research students.

Prof. Ming received his postdoctoral training at the University of Oxford, where he was a fellow at the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (2015–2016). He subsequently completed a second fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, within the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics (2016–2018). He earned a Master of Medical Sciences in Clinical Investigation from Harvard University in 2018 and is currently pursuing an Executive MBA at the University of Cambridge (2024–2026), with a focus on leadership and health systems innovation.

As a clinician-epidemiologist, Prof. Ming has, over the past decade, led and contributed to research initiatives spanning maternal and child health, infectious disease epidemiology, health policy, artificial intelligence in medicine, and health economics. His scholarship is characterized by a commitment to interdisciplinary methodologies and policy-relevant research. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles, including in top-tier specialty journals such as The Lancet, JAMA, and BMJ families. He holds an h-index of 27 (Scopus) and 29 (Google Scholar), with over 4,850 citations. He was named among the top 2% of the world’s most-cited scientists in the Stanford citation ranking (2023 and 2024) and received the Thetos Young Scholar Award from CityU in 2024. His research on COVID-19 policy and surveillance has had notable translational impact both locally and internationally.

Prof. Ming’s research has been supported by the Beat Drugs Fund (as Principal Investigator), the Health and Medical Research Fund (as Principal Investigator), Quality Education Fund (as Principal Investigator) and the National Social Science Fund of China (as Co-Investigator).

Prof. Ming also holds extensive memberships in academic societies, advisory committees, and expert panels. He serves as an Expert Member of the National Institute of Medical Insurance in China, a Member of the Guangdong Provincial Youth Federation and Deputy Secretary-General of its Hong Kong Sector, a Member of the Rehabilitation Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong SAR Government, and a Member of the Community Investment and Inclusion Fund Committee of the Hong Kong SAR Government. He is also a Member of the Kwun Tong District Fight Crime Committee and Convenor of its Youth Education Subgroup, a Member of the Kwun Tong Healthy City Steering Committee, Vice Chairperson of the Kwun Tong District Youth Community Building Committee, and Vice Chairperson of the Yau Tsim Mong Healthy City Executive Committee.

In addition, he is a Member of the Committee of Experts on Rare Diseases of the Guangdong Pharmaceutical Association, a Senior Member of the Community Medicine Committee of the Guangdong Preventive Medicine Association, a Member of the Evidence-Based Medicine Committee of the Guangdong Medical Association, and a Youth Member of the Chinese Academy of Maternal-Fetal Medicine. He also serves as a Member of the Cancer Prevention Committee of the Guangdong Preventive Medicine Association, a Member of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macau Bay Area Urogenital Alliance, and an External Member of The Association of Licentiates of the Medical Council of Hong Kong.

Internationally, Prof. Ming is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health in the United Kingdom, a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in the United States, and a Member of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in the United States.

Prof. Ming is always looking for motivated undergraduate summer research students/postgraduate internship students/PhD students/postdoctoral fellows/research assistants, especially quantitative and creative individuals who are not afraid to do something totally new.

Potential postdoctoral fellows/PhD candidates will be selected from highly qualified, early-career researchers so that they are positioned to become leaders in their respective academic fields. Fellows will have experience in independently managing a discrete area of a research project and contributing ideas for the next stage. Excellent communication skills are essential, along with experience contributing to publications and presentations. The training is focused on enhancing your ability at every stage of the research process. Using in-person seminars and dynamic workshops, lectures, and reading groups, the fellows pursue new knowledge within and across disciplines and foster intellectual exchange among the university's undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.

Opportunities to work with big data, electronic health records, real-world data, and methodological research in this area will be available. Self-funded visiting students and visiting scholars are welcome. Potential candidates holding an MBBS, MD, PhD, DMD, DDS, PharmD, DNP, MPH, MSc, MA, MEng or an equivalent degree are eligible to apply. Graduates from the fields of medicine/nursing/economics/policy/statistics/computer science/related subjects are welcome. Clinicians, residents, and lecturers who demonstrated strong career interest in clinical/public health policy research are also eligible to apply.

Our team is committed to fostering an environment of equality, diversity, and inclusion. The working hours are flexible to complement care responsibilities.

 

Research Area

Clinical research, infectious epidemiology and control, disease modelling, medical statistics, health economics, health policy, artificial intelligence in medicine
Possible research fields:

  • Answering high-impact questions to inform clinical decision-making
  • Developing and implementing cutting-edge methods for infectious epidemiology and control
  • Developing cutting-edge tools that improve health economics research
  • Developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence applications in medical diagnoses and treatments

If you are interested in this opportunity or have any questions, contact Prof. Ming at wkming2@cityu.edu.hk

Prof. Ming's research over the last 10 years has covered topics ranging from health policy-oriented clinical research to infectious disease control and surveillance. Prof. Ming has over 100 peer-reviewed publications yielding an h-index of 13 (ISI WOS) and of 17 (Google Scholar) by November 2021. Two of them are classified as highly cited papers (ranked in the top 1% of Clinical Medicine, Essential Science Indicators) in 2021. Prof. Ming's publications and associated citation metrics are available through Google Scholar.

Selected from a total of over 100 publications by November 2021:

Infectious epidemiology and control (COVID-series)

  1. Liu, Taoran**; He, Zonglin ; Huang, Jian ; Yan, Ni ; Chen, Qian ; Huang, Fengqiu ; Zhang, Yuejia ; Akinwunmi, Omolola M. ; Akinwunmi, Babatunde O. ; Zhang, Casper J. P. ; Wu, Yibo ; Ming, Wai-Kit (Co-Corresponding author). A comparison of vaccine hesitancy of COVID-19 vaccination in China and the United States. Vaccines. 2021 Jun;9(6). 649. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9060649
  2. Liu, Taoran**; Tsang, Winghei ; Xie, Yifei ; Tian, Kang ; Huang, Fengqiu ; Chen, Yanhui ; Lau, Oiying ; Feng, Guanrui ; Du, Jianhao ; Chu, Bojia ; Shi, Tingyu ; Zhao, Junjie ; Cai, Yiming ; Hu, Xueyan ; Akinwunmi, Babatunde ; Huang, Jian ; Zhang, Casper J P ; Ming, Wai-Kit (Corresponding author). Preferences for artificial intelligence clinicians before and during the covid-19 pandemic: Discrete choice experiment and propensity score matching study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2021 Mar;23(3). e26997. https://doi.org/10.2196/26997
  3. He, Zonglin**; Chin, Yiqiao ; Yu, Shinning ; Huang, Jian ; Zhang, Casper J P ; Zhu, Ke ; Azarakhsh, Nima ; Sheng, Jie ; He, Yi ; Jayavanth, Pallavi ; Liu, Qian ; Akinwunmi, Babatunde O. ; Ming, Wai-Kit (Corresponding author). The influence of average temperature and relative humidity on new cases of COVID-19: Time-Series analysis. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 7(1), [e20495]. https://doi.org/10.2196/20495
  4. Wu, Huailiang**; Sun, Weiwei; Huang, Xinyu; Yu, Shinning; Wang, Hao; Bi, Xiaoyu; Sheng, Jie; Chen, Sihan; Akinwunmi, Babatunde; Zhang, Casper J P; Ming, Wai-Kit (Corresponding author). Online antenatal care during the COVID-19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2020 Jul;22(7). e19916. https://doi.org/10.2196/19916
  5. Wu, Huai-liang**; Huang, Jian; Zhang, Casper J.P.; He, Zonglin; Ming, Wai-Kit (Corresponding author). Facemask shortage and the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak: Reflections on public health measures. EClinicalMedicine. 2020 Apr;21. 100329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100329
  6. Liu, Qian; Zheng, Zequan**(co-first); Zheng, Jiabin; Chen, Qiuyi; Liu, Guan; Chen, Sihan; Chu, Bojia; Zhu, Hongyu; Akinwunmi, BAbatunde; Huang, Jian; Zhang, Casper J P.; Ming, Wai-Kit (Corresponding author). Health communication through news media during the early stage of the covid-19 outbreak in China: Digital topic modeling approach. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2020 Apr;22(4). e19118. https://doi.org/10.2196/19118\

Health economics and health policy

  1. Wu, Huailiang**; Sun, Weiwei ; Chen, Hanqing ; Wu, Yanxin ; Ding, Wenjing ; Liang, Shangqiang ; Huang, Xinyu ; Chen, Haitian ; Zeng, Qing ; Li, Zhuyu ; Xiong, Peng ; Huang, Jian ; Akinwunmi, Babatunde ; Zhang, Casper J. P. ; Ming, Wai-Kit (Corresponding author). Health-related quality of life in different trimesters during pregnancy. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 2021;19. 182. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-021-01811-y
  2. Sun, Weiwei**; Huang, Xinyu; Wu, Huailiang; Zhang, Casper J. P.; Yin, Zongzhi; Fan, Qianqian; Wang, Huiyun; Jayavanth, Pallavi; Akinwunmi, Babatunde; Wu, Yanxin; Wang, Zilian; Ming, Wai-kit (Corresponding author). Maternal tobacco exposure and health-related quality of life during pregnancy: a national-based study of pregnant women in China. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 2021;19. 152. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-021-01785-x
  3. Huang, Xiaoting; Weng, Xiuhua; Lin, Shen; Liu, Yiwei; Luo, Shaohong; Wang, Hang; Ming, Wai-Kit (Co-Corresponding author); Huang, Pinfang. Half-dose fulvestrant plus anastrozole as a first-line treatment for hormone receptor-positive metastatic breast cancer: a cost-effectiveness analysis. BMJ Open. 2020 Aug;10(8). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036107
  4. Wu, Ping**; Xu, Baoping; Shen, Adong; He, Zonglin; Zhang, Casper J. P. Ming, Wai-Kit (Co-Corresponding author); Shen, Kunling. The economic burden of medical treatment of children with asthma in China. BMC Pediatrics. 2020;20. 386. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-020-02268-6
  5. He, Zonglin**; Tang, Yuan; Xie, Huatao; Lin, Yuchen; Liang, Shangqiang; Xu, Yuyuan; Chen, Zhili; Wu, Liang-zhi; Sheng, Jie; Bi, Xiaoyu; Pang, Muyi; Akinwunmi, Babatunde; Xiao, Xiaomin; Ming, Wai-Kit (Corresponding author). Economic burden of IADPSG gestational diabetes diagnostic criteria in China: Propensity score matching analysis from a 7-year retrospective cohort. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care. 2020;8(1). e001538. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjdrc-2020-001538
  6. Wu, Liangzhi; Wu, Yanxin**(co-first); Zou, Shiqian**(co-first); Sun, Cong; Chen, Junyu; Li, Xueyan; Lin, Zihang; Guan, Lizhi; Zeng, Qing; Zhao, Sihan; Liang, Jingtong; Chen, Rui; Hu, Zhiwen; Au, Kingyan; Xie, Daipeng; Xiao, Xiaomin; Ming, Wai-Kit (Corresponding author). Eliciting women's preference for prenatal testing in China: A discrete choice experiment. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2020;20. 604. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-03270-7
  7. Dai, Weiqian**; Liu, Chang; Liu, Jiahe; Lin, Yaduan; Cheng, Yu; Ming, Wai-Kit (Corresponding author). Preference of individuals in the treatment strategies of acute myocardial infarction in China: A discrete choice experiment. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 2020;18. 217. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-020-01466-1
  8. Wu, Huailiang**; Chan, Nga-Kwo; Zhang, Casper J P; Ming, Wai-Kit (Corresponding author). The role of the sharing economy and artificial intelligence in health care: Opportunities and challenges. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2019 Oct;21(10). e13469. https://doi.org/10.2196/13469
  9. Ming, Wai-Kit; Yu, Wing-Yin; Tsang, Owen Tak-Yin; Chan, Paul Kay-Sheung; You, Joyce Hoi-Sze. Economic analysis of herpes zoster in a hospital setting in Hong Kong. Acta Dermato-Venereologica. 2019 May 1;99(6):616-617. https://doi.org/10.2340/00015555-3118
  10. Jiang, Xinchan; Ming, Wai-Kit; You, Joyce H. S. Potential cost-effectiveness of wearable cardioverter-defibrillator for patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator explant in a high-income city of China. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 2019 Nov;30(11):2387-2396. https://doi.org/10.1111/jce.14153

AI technology

  1. Shen, Jiayi**; Chen, Jiebin; Zheng, Zequan; Zheng, Jiabin; Liu, Zherui; Song, Jian; Wong, Sum Yi; Wang, Xiaoling; Huang, Mengqi; Fang, Po-Han; Jiang, Bangsheng; Tsang, Winghei; He, Zonglin; Liu, Taoran; Akinwunmi, Babatunde; Wang, Chi Chiu; Zhang, Casper J P; Huang, Jian; Ming, Wai-Kit (Co-Corresponding author). An innovative artificial intelligence-based app for the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM-AI): Development study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2020 Sep;22(9). e21573. https://doi.org/10.2196/21573
  2. Mok, Tsz-Ngai** ; Chen, Junyuan ; Pan, Jinghua ; Ming, Wai-Kit (Co-first) ; He, Qiyu ; Sin, Tat-Hang ; Deng, Jialin ; Li, Jieruo ; Zha, Zhengang. Use of a virtual reality simulator for tendon repair training: Randomized controlled trial. JMIR Serious Games. 2021 Jul;9(3). e27544. https://doi.org/10.2196/27544
  3. Xu, Yangfan**; Tong, Meiqinzi; Ming, Wai-Kit; Lin, Yangyang; Mai, Wangxiang; Huang, Weixin; Chen, Zhuoming. A depth camera–based, task-specific virtual reality rehabilitation game for patients with stroke: Pilot usability study. JMIR Serious Games. 2021 Mar;9(1). e20916. https://doi.org/10.2196/20916
  4. Bao, Yuekun**; Ming, Wai-Kit; Mou, Zhi-Wei; Kong, Qi-Hang; Li, Ang; Yuan, Ti-Fei; Mi, Xue-Song. Current Application of Digital Diagnosing Systems for Retinopathy of Prematurity. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 2021 Mar;200.105871. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2020.105871
  5. Shen, Jiayi**; Zhang, Casper J P; Jiang, Bangsheng; Chen, Jiebin; Song, Jian; Liu, Zherui; He, Zonglin; Wong, Sum Yi; Fang, Po-Han; Ming, Wai-Kit (Corresponding author). Artificial intelligence versus clinicians in disease diagnosis: Systematic review. JMIR Medical Informatics. 2019 Jul;7(3). e10010. https://doi.org/10.2196/10010
  6. Mackillop, Lucy; Hirst, Jane Elizabeth; Bartlett, Katy Jane; Birks, Jacqueline Susan; Clifton, Lei; Farmer, Andrew J.; Gibson, Oliver; Kenworthy, Yvonne; Levy, Jonathan Cummings; Loerup, Lise; Rivero-Arias, Oliver; Ming, Wai-Kit; Velardo, Carmelo; Tarassenko, Lionel. Comparing the efficacy of a mobile phone-based blood glucose management system with standard clinic care in women with gestational diabetes: Randomized controlled trial. JMIR mHealth and uHealth. 2018 Mar 1;6(3). e71. https://doi.org/10.2196/mhealth.9512

A full list of publications is available at CityU Scholar.