23 Facts About Gabriel Leung

Gabriel Leung continued his education at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, England and Crescent School in Canada.

Gabriel Leung's family moved to Canada when he was 13 in Form 2, due to his father's job with a multinational company,.

Gabriel Leung undertook his undergraduate education at the University of Western Ontario, majoring in chemistry and minoring music.

Gabriel Leung then entered the medical school at same university, initially majoring in neurosurgery, eventually switching to public health and completed his family medicine residency training at the University of Toronto.

Gabriel Leung then received his Master of Public Health degree from Harvard University in 1999, and earned a research doctorate at the University of Hong Kong.

In 1999, Gabriel Leung joined the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Medicine as an assistant professor in the Department of Community Medicine, and became an associate professor when the School of Public Health was formed in 2004.

Gabriel Leung was a Takemi Fellow at Harvard University from 2004 to 2005, and, after returning to Hong Kong, expanded the Children of 1997 study together with Catherine Mary Schooling, which followed "the majority of all babies born in Hong Kong during April and May 1997", into a life-course epidemiological study.

Gabriel Leung was promoted to full professor in 2006 at the age of 33, one of the youngest in HKU's history.

Gabriel Leung served as the vice president and censor in public health medicine at the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine from 2006 to 2008.

In 2008, Gabriel Leung left academia and joined the Government of Hong Kong as the first undersecretary for food and health, during which he led the government's response in the 2009 swine flu H1N1 pandemic.

Gabriel Leung held the position until 2011 when he was appointed the director of the Office of the Hong Kong Chief Executive.

When his term at the government ended, Gabriel Leung returned to HKU in 2012 as the head of the Department of Community Medicine until 2013, when the department was incorporated into the School of Public Health, and the inaugural master of Chi Sun College.

Gabriel Leung was the acting director of the School of Public Health during this period.

In 2013, Gabriel Leung was appointed as the 40th dean of the HKU Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine and chair professor of public health.

Gabriel Leung became the interim director of the School of Public Health, after the former director, Keiji Fukuda, retired in 2021.

Gabriel Leung resigned as dean in November 2021 to succeed Leong Cheung at the Hong Kong Jockey Club as the executive director.

Gabriel Leung joined the Hong Kong Jockey Club on 1 August 2022.

Gabriel Leung is currently serving on the Steering Committee on Primary Healthcare Development of the Government of Hong Kong since 2017, the board of directors of the Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health at the Hong Kong Science Park since 2020, the board of governors of the Wellcome Trust since 2021, and the Global Health Risk Framework Commission.

Academically, Gabriel Leung was an editor for the Journal of Public Health between 2008 and 2013, the inaugural co-editor of Epidemics and an associate editor of Health Policy.

Gabriel Leung is currently the founding deputy editor-in-chief of China CDC Weekly, and a member of the editorial advisory board of The BMJ.

Gabriel Leung founded and led the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group during the SARS outbreak.

Gabriel Leung's research involves several large-scale longitudinal studies, including Children of 1997, FAMILY and the Department of Health Elderly Health Service cohort.

Gabriel Leung's move to the government in 2008 was controversial as HKU retained his professorship, and he held Canadian citizenship at the time.