Background

Research Cluster in Health Communication (RCHC)

Health Communication is a key research cluster of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine (CHM), inaugurated in 2009 as a joint initiative between the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Medicine. RCHC pursues research on the vital role played by communication in the delivery of healthcare: from encounters between medical professionals and patients to training medical students to mass media health promotion campaigns. The RCHC strives, first, to promote cutting-edge research on health communication and, second, to integrate this research into professional practice and training. The RCHC recognizes that effective communication is crucial to facilitating understanding, conveying health-related messages and ensuring patients’ satisfaction with the services that they receive. 

Centre for the Humanities and Medicine (CHM)

The Centre for the Humanities and Medicine (CHM), a joint initiative between the Faculty of Arts and the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, was established in 2009 with the mission of fostering interdisciplinary research and curricula between the Humanities and Medicine. The goal of creating the Centre was to approach the ever growing field of medical research with a Humanities lens for the purpose of bringing a new understanding of the human condition to the context and practice of medicine. The CHM is the first institution of its kind in Asia, and one of the few in the world that combines the commitment to cutting-edge interdisciplinary research with the cultivation of professional competencies and practices. Currently the Center’s research focuses around four research clusters: Biotechnology and Society, Contagions, Health Communication and Medical Humanities.

Find out more at http://www.chm.hku.hk/.