A very warm welcome to the website of the Centre for Health Protection (CHP)!

The Centre is a public health agency established in 2004 under the Department of Health. Our mission is to achieve effective prevention and control of diseases in Hong Kong in collaboration with local and international partners. This is manifest in our “3P’s” commitment - protect the health of the community, promote healthy living in the community, and partner with stakeholders to achieve our mission. In fighting communicable diseases to protect public health, we focus on real-time surveillance, rapid intervention and responsive risk communication. In the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, we put emphasis on promoting healthy living in the community. Collaboration is the key to our activities. Internally we adopt a multi-disciplinary and an integrated approach in our work; externally, we forge partnerships with stakeholders from the healthcare and other sectors, and maintain close relations with Mainland China as well as regional and international health authorities.

We built the website to share knowledge and developments in public health protection. Apart from facts, guidelines and other relevant information, we have also included links to a wide range of agencies and resources. We try to present the data in a simple manner to facilitate easy reading. Our hope is to bring health matters closer to the community in order to increase awareness and enhance knowledge in disease prevention and control.

I hope you will find the website useful and interesting and will visit us again. We shall treasure any suggestion you might have on the site.

Dr Thomas TSANG
Controller,
Centre for Health Protection,
Department of Health, HKSAR