Paul Yip

Professor Paul Yip is the chair professor (population health) at the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, associate dean (knowledge exchange and development) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the director of the university's HKJC Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention at the University of Hong Kong. He is the principal investigator of Open Up, a 24-hour online emotional support project; a community-based suicide prevention project for the Wong Tai Sin District; poverty alleviation programmes; and the Quality Thematic Network on developing mental wellness for schools in Hong Kong. He is interested in identifying and developing good practices for promoting wellbeing in the community. He has published more than 500 research papers relating to population health and suicide prevention. His Chinese books include Understanding Poverty in Hong Kong (Third Edition), Be with You: Learning from Suicide Notes, and Understanding Poverty in Hong Kong (Revised Edition).