Staff Publications

Cai, R., Hu, L., & He, S. (2022). Policy‐driven education‐led gentrification and its spatiotemporal dynamics: Evidence from Shanghai, China. The Geographical Journal. DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12440

He, S., Li, C., Xiao, Y., & Liu, Q. (2022). Examining neighborhood effects on residents’ daily activities in central Shanghai, China: Integrating “big data” and “thick data”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 23998083221078307.

He, S. (2022). The rise of education-featured gated communities in Chinese cities: (Re)producing the enterprising self via the entrepreneurial local state-capital nexus. The Geographical Journal. DOI：https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12435

Hu, L., He, S., Su, S. (2022), A novel approach to examining urban housing market segmentation: Comparing the dynamics between sales submarkets and rental submarkets. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 94, 101775. DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2022.101775

Yan, X., Shan, L., He, S., & Zhang, J. (2022). Cross-city patient mobility and healthcare equity and efficiency: Evidence from Hefei, China. Travel Behaviour and Society, 28, 1-12.

Hao, P., & He, S. (2022). What is holding farmers back? Endowments and mobility choice of rural citizens in China. Journal of Rural Studies, 89, 66-72.

Wang, K., Qian, J., & He, S. (2021). Global destruction networks and hybrid e-waste economies: Practices and embeddedness in Guiyu, China. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 308518X211061748.

Li, L., Wan, W. X., & He, S. (2021). The heightened ‘Security Zone’ function of gated communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and the changing housing market dynamic: Evidence from Beijing, China. Land, 10(9), 983. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land10090983

李志剛、何深靜及劉玉亭 (2021)。《中國城市地理叢書(七)：中國城市社會空間》。科學出版社。
Li, Z., He, S., & Liu, Y. (2021). Urban Geography in China (7): Urban Social Space in China. Science Press.

Zhu, J., He, S., & Hao, J. (2021). Growing rights consciousness of the marginalised and the reshuffling of the landlord–tenant power relationship: Examining a country park-induced displacement in Shanghai. Population, Space and Place. DOI: 10.1002/psp.2510

Cai, R., Li, C., & He, S. (2021). Consciousness on property rights, homeowner associations and neighbourhood governance: Evidence from Shanghai. Cities, 119, 103350.

Qian, J., Ling, J., & He, S. (2021). Making cities and regions in globalising East Asia. In A.M. Orum, J. Ruiz-Tagle and S.V. Haddock (Eds.) Companion to Urban and Regional Studies (pp. 21-42), Oxford: Willey Blackwell.

Wang, K., Qian, J., & He, S. (2021). Contested worldings of e-waste environmental justice: Nonhuman agency and e-waste scalvaging in Guiyu, China. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1-20. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2021.1889353

Lin, G.C.S., Li, X., Yeh, A.G.O., He, S., Hu, Z., & Liu, X. (2021). Reproduction of space in the city centre of mega-city regions: Bottom-up institutional reforms, profit redistribution, and urban redevelopment in Guangzhou. In A.G.O. Yeh, G.C.S. Lin, & F. Yan (Eds.), Mega-City Region Development in China (pp. 159-175). Oxon: Routledge.

He, S., & Chang, Y. (2020). A zone of exception? Interrogating the hybrid housing regime and nested enclaves in China-Singapore Suzhou-Industrial-Park. Housing Studies, 1-25.

Huang, Y., He, S., & Gan, L. (2020). Introduction to SI: Homeownership and housing divide in China. Cities, 108, 102967.

Su, S., Zhang, J., He, S., Zhang, H., Hu, L., & Kang, M. (2020). Unraveling the impact of TOD on housing rental prices and implications on spatial planning: A comparative analysis of five Chinese megacities. Habitat International, 107, 102309.

Yan, X., & He, S. (2020). The co-evolution of therapeutic landscape and health tourism in bama longevity villages, China: An actor-network perspective. Health & Place, 66, 102448.

Zhang, M., & He, S. (2020). From dissensus to consensus: state rescaling and modalities of power under the Belt and Road Initiative in Western China. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1-20.

Zhang, M., & He, S. (2020). Informal property rights as relational and functional: Unravelling the relational contract in China's informal housing market. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 44(6), 967-988.

Zhang, M., & He, S. (2020). Who feels secure in customary tenure and why? A triangular framework of perceived tenure security in China's small property right housing. Cities, 107, 102900.

Li, Z., He, S., Su, S., Li, G., & Chen, F. (2020). Public services equalization in urbanizing China: Indicators, spatiotemporal dynamics and implications on regional economic disparities. Social Indicators Research, 1-65.

He, S. (2020). Urban entrepreneurialism 2.0? Financialization, cross-scale dynamics, and post-political governance. Dialogues in Human Geography. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620921030

Hu, L., He, S., Luo, Y., Su, S., Xin, J., & Weng, M. (2020). A social-media-based approach to assessing the effectiveness of equitable housing policy in mitigating education accessibility induced social inequalities in Shanghai, China. Land Use Policy, 94, 104513. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104513

Song, G., Liu, L., He, S., Cai, L., & Xu, C. (2020). Safety perceptions among African migrants in Guangzhou and Foshan, China. Cities, 99, 102624. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102624

Wei, Z., Liu, Y., He, S., & Mo, H. (2020). Housing differentiation in transitional urban China. Cities, 96, 102469. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102469

Yan, X., He, S., & Dong, D. (2020). Determining how far an adult rare disease patient needs to travel for a definitive diagnosis: A cross-sectional examination of the 2018 National Rare Disease Survey in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(5), 1757. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051757

He, S., Wang, D., Webster, C., & Chau, K.W. (2019). Property rights with price tags? Pricing uncertainties in the production, transaction and consumption of China’s small property right housing. Land Use Policy, 81, 424-433.

He, S., Zhang, M., & Wei, Z. (2019). The state project of crisis management: China’s Shantytown Redevelopment Schemes under state-led financialization. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 52(3), 632-653.

Hu, F.Z.Y., Lin, G.C.S., Yeh, A.G.O., He, S., & Liu, X. (2019). Reluctant policy innovation through profit concession and informality tolerance: A strategic relational view of policy entrepreneurship in China's urban redevelopment. Public Administration and Development, 40(1), 65-75. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.1866

Hu, L., He, S., Han, Z., Xiao, H., Su, S., Weng, M., & Cai, Z. (2019). Monitoring housing rental prices based on social media: An integrated approach of machine-learning algorithms and hedonic modeling to inform equitable housing policies. Land Use Policy, 82, 657-673. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.12.030

Wang, D., He, S., Webster, C., & Zhang, X. (2019). Unravelling residential satisfaction and relocation intention in three urban neighborhood types in Guangzhou, China. Habitat International, 85, 53-62. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2019.01.004

Wang, K., & He, S. (2019). Unraveling the marginalization of new generation peasant workers in China: Cultural reproduction and symbolic construction. Journal of Urban Affairs, 41(3), 282-304. DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2018.1451253

Yu, M., He, S., Wu, D., Zhu, H., & Webster, C. (2019). Examining the multi-scalar unevenness of high-quality healthcare resources distribution in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(16), 2813. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16162813

Zhou, H., He, S., Cai, Y., Wang, M., & Su, S. (2019). Social inequalities in neighborhood visual walkability: Using street view imagery and deep learning technologies to facilitate healthy city planning. Sustainable Cities and Society, 50, 101605. DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2019.101605

Zhu, L., Zhong, S., Tu, W., Zheng, J., He, S., Bao, J., & Huang, C. (2019). Assessing spatial accessibility to medical resources at the community level in Shenzhen, China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(2), 242. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16020242

He, S. (2018). Three waves of state-led gentrification in China. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 110(1). DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12334

He, S., Li, L., Zhang, Y., & Wang, J. (2018). A small entrepreneurial city in action: Policy mobility, urban entrepreneurialism, and politics of scale in Jiyuan, China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 42(4). DOI:10.1111/1468-2427.12631

He, S., & Wang, J. (2018). State-led creative/cultural city making and its contestations in East Asia: A multi-scalar analysis of the entrepreneurial state and the creative class cultural city. Geoforum, 106, 305-309. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.10.004

Lin, G.C.S., Li, X., Yeh, A.G.O., He, S., Hu, Z., & Liu, X. (2018). Land readjustment in urbanizing China: Decentralization, profit concession, and redevelopment of village land in Chinese cities. In Y.H. Hong, & J. Tierney (Eds.), Global Experiences in Land Readjustment: Urban Legal Case Studies (pp. 13-24). Nairobi, Kenya: UN-Habitat.

Zhang, M., He, S., & Zhao, P. (2018). Revisiting inequalities in the commuting burden: Institutional constraints and job-housing relationships in Beijing. Journal of Transport Geography, 71, 58-71.

Liu, Y., & He, S. (2017). Unpacking the heterogeneity of poor neighbourhoods and neighbouring in large Chinese cities. Area Development and Policy, 2(3), 294-313. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2017.1341816.

He, S., Kong, L., & Lin, G.C.S. (2016). Interpreting China’s new urban spaces: state, market, and society in action. Urban Geography, 38(5), 635-642. DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2016.1139404

He, S., Liu, L., Yang, G., & Wang, F. (2016). Housing differentiation and housing poverty in Chinese low-income urban neighborhoods under the confluence of State-market forces. Urban Geography, 38(5), 729-751. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2016.1139406

He, S., & Qian, J. (2016). From an emerging market to a multifaceted urban society: Urban China studies. Urban Studies, 54(4), 827-846. DOI: 10.1177/0042098016675826

Li, S.M., He, S., & Chan, K.W. (Eds.) (2016). Changing China: Migration, Communities and Governance in Cities. New York and London: Routledge.

Fu, Q., He, S., Zhu, Y.S., Li, S.M., He, Y.L., Zhou, H.N., & Lin, N. (2015). Toward a relational account of neighborhood governance. American Behavioral Scientist, 59(8), 992-1006.

He, S. (2015). Homeowner association and neighborhood governance in Guangzhou, China. Eurasia Geography and Economics, 56(3), 1-25. DOI: 10.1080/15387216.2015.1095108

He, S. (2015). Right to the city: A liberal-democratic perspective. In J.D. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (pp. 673-679). Oxford: Elsevier.

He, S. (2015). A review of “Housing inequality in Chinese cities”, Edited by Youqin Huang and Si-ming Li. International Journal of Housing Policy, 15(1), 97-100. DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2014.999421

He, S., & Lin, G.C.S. (2015). Producing and consuming China’s new urban space: State, market and society. Urban Studies, 52(15), 2757-2773. DOI: 10.1177/0042098015604810

Wang, D., & He, S. (Eds.) (2015). Urban Living: Mobility, Sociability and Wellbeing. Berlin: Springer.

He, S. (2014). Consuming urban living in ‘villages in the city’: Studentification in Guangzhou, China. Urban Studies, 52(15), 2849-2873. DOI: 10.1177/0042098014543703

He, S., & Xue, D. (2014). Identity building and communal resistance against land grabs in Wukan Village, China. Current Anthropology, 55(S9), 126-137.

Li, S.M., Chan, K.W., & He, S. (2014). Migration, mobility, and community change in Chinese cities: Introducing the special issue. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 55(4), 307-312.

He, S. (2013). Evolving enclave urbanism in China and its socio-spatial implications: The case of Guangzhou. Social and Cultural Geography, 14(3), 243-275.

Huang, K., Liu, X., Li, X., Liang, J., & He, S. (2013). An improved artificial immune system for seeking the Pareto front of land-use allocation problem in large areas. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 27(5), 922-946.

Qian, J., He, S., & Liu, L. (2013). Aestheticisation, rent-seeking, and rural gentrification amidst China’s rapid urbanisation: The case of Xiaozhou village, Guangzhou. Journal of Rural Studies, 32, 331-345.

Samara, T., He, S., & Chen, G. (Eds.) (2013). Locating Right to the City in the Global South: Transnational Urban Governance and Socio-spatial Transformations. London & New York: Routledge.

He, S. (2012). Two waves of gentrification and emerging rights issues in Guangzhou, China. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 44(12), 2817-2833.

He, S., & Chen, G. (2012). Interrogating unequal rights in the Chinese City. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 44(12), 2794-2800.

Liu, Y., He, S., & Wu, F. (2012). Housing differentiation under market transition in Nanjing, China. The Professional Geographer, 64(4), 554–571.

Qian, J., & He, S. (2012). Rethinking social power and the right to the city midst China’s emerging urbanism. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 44(12), 2801-2816.

He, S. (2010). New-build gentrification in central Shanghai: Demographic changes and socioeconomic implications. Population, Space and Place, Malden, 16(5), 345-361.

He, S., Liu, Y., Wu, F., & Webster, C. (2010). Social groups and housing differentiation in China’s urban villages: An institutional interpretation. Housing Studies, 25(5), 671-691.

He, S., Wu, F., Webster, C., & Liu, Y. (2010). Poverty concentration and determinants in China's urban low-income neighbourhoods and social groups. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 34(2), 328–349.

Liu, Y., & He, S. (2010). Chinese urban villages as marginalized neighbourhoods under rapid urbanization. In F. Wu & C. Webster (Eds.), Marginalization in Urban China: Comparative Perspectives (pp. 177-200). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Liu, Y., He, S., Wu, F., & Webster, C. (2010). Urban villages under China’s rapid urbanization: Unregulated assets and transitional neighbourhoods. Habitat International, Exeter, 34(2), 135-144.

Wu, F., He, S., & Webster, C. (2010). Path dependency and the neighbourhood effect: Urban poverty in impoverished neighbourhoods in Chinese cities. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 42, 134-152.

Wu, F., Webster, C., He, S., & Liu, Y. (2010). Urban Poverty in China. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Press.

Guo, H., Li, W., Wu, J., & Ho, H.C. (2021). Does air pollution contribute to urban–rural disparity in male lung cancer diseases in China? Environmental Science and Pollution Research. DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-17406-5

Ward, Ho, H.C., et al. [GBD 2019 collaborators]. (2021). Global, regional, and national mortality among young people aged 10–24 years, 1950–2019. A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019, 393, 1593-1618. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01546-4

Xu, Z., Tong, S., Ho, H.C., Lin, H., Pan, H., & Cheng, J. (2021). Associations of extreme temperatures with hospitalizations and post-discharge deaths for acute myocardial infarction: What is the role of pre-existing diabetes? International Journal of Epidemiology, dyab155. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab155

Lai, E.T., Ho, H.C., Ho, S.C., & Woo, J. (2021). Socioeconomic status, physical functioning and mortality: Results from a cohort study of older adults in Hong Kong. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2021.08.034

Cong, J., Wang, L. B., Liu, F. J., Qian, Z. M., McMillin, S. E., Vaughn, M. G., Song, Y., Wang, S., Chen., S., Xiong, S., Shen., X, Sun, X., Zhou, Y., Ho., H.C. & Dong, G. H. (2021). Associations between metabolic syndrome and anthropogenic heat emissions in northeastern China. Environmental Research, 204, 111974. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.111974

Ho, H. C., Guo, H., Chan, T. C., Shi, Y., Webster, C., & Fong, K. N. (2021). Community planning for a “healthy built environment” via a human-environment nexus? A multifactorial assessment of environmental characteristics and age-specific stroke mortality in Hong Kong. Chemosphere, 132043. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.132043

Nichols, E. et al. [Ho, H.C. as one of the GBD collaborators] (2021). Use of multidimensional item response theory methods for dementia prevalence prediction: An example using the Health and Retirement Survey and the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 21, 241. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-021-01590-y

Song, Y., Chen, B., Ho, H. C., Kwan, M. P., Liu, D., Wang, F., Cai, J., Li, X., Xu. Yu, He, Q., Wang, H., Xu, Q. & Song, Y. (2021). Observed inequality in urban greenspace exposure in China. Environment International, 156, 106778.

Zheng, H., Yi, W., Ding, Z., Xu, Z., Ho, H. C., Cheng, J., Hossain, M.Z., Song, J., Fan, Y., Ni, J., Wang., Q., Xu, Y., Wei, J., & Su, H. (2021). Evaluation of life expectancy loss associated with submicron and fine particulate matter (PM1 and PM2. 5) air pollution in Nanjing, China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-15244-z

Cheng, J.*, Ho, H. C.*, Su, H., Huang, C., Pan, R., Hossain, M. Z., Zhang, Hao, & Xu, Z. (2021). Low ambient temperature shortened life expectancy in Hong Kong: A time-series analysis of 1.4 million years of life lost from cardiorespiratory diseases. Environmental Research, 201, 111652. (*as co-first author)

Bhattacharjee, N.V. et al. [Ho. H.C as one of the collaborators] (2021). Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low-and middle-income countries, 2000–2018. Nature Human Behaviour. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-021-01108-6

Ho, H.C., Chan, E., & Ng, S. (2021). A History of Public Housing Development in Kwun Tong: Connection between Socio-environmental Change and Urban Planning《觀塘區公屋發展的歷史： 社區及環境變遷與城市規劃的連結》.

Cao, Z., Wen, Y., Song, S., Ho, H.C., & Sun, H. (2021). Spatiotemporal variations and controls on anthropogenic heat fluxes in 12 selected cities in the Eastern China. China Geographical Science, 31(3), 444-458.

Li, C., Tan, W., Ho, H.C., Ong, J., Zheng, X., Sun, X., Li, X., Liu, L., Yang, Y., Zhao, P., Xiong, M., Zheng, H., Wang, C., & Yang, B. (2021). Prevalence of chlamydia among pregnant women, gynecology clinic attendees, and subfertile women in Guangdong, China: A cross-sectional survey. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, ofab206.

Liu, Y., Lu, S., Guo, Y., Ho, H.C., Song, Y., Cheng, W., Chui, C.H.K., Chan, O.F., Chiu, R.L.H., Webster, C., & Lum, T.Y.S. (2021). Longitudinal associations between neighbourhood physical environments and depressive symptoms of older adults in Hong Kong: The moderating effects of terrain slope and declining functional abilities. Health & Place, 70, 102585. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102585

Lu, S., Liu, Y., Guo, Y., Ho, H.C., Song, Y., Cheng, W., Chui, C.H.K., Chan, O.F., Chiu, R.L.H., Webster, C., & Lum, T.Y.S. (2021). Neighbourhood physical environment, intrinsic capacity and 4-year late-life functional ability trajectories of low-income Chinese older population: A longitudinal study with the parallel process of latent growth curve modelling. EClinicalMedicine (In press).

Chrysoulakis, N., Somarakis, G., Stagakis, S., Mitraka, Z., Wong, M.S., & Ho, H.C. (2021) Monitoring and evaluating nature-based solutions implementation in urban areas by means of earth observation. Remote Sensing, 3(8), 1503.

Cao, Z., Gao, F., Li, S., Wu, Z., Guan, W., & Ho, H.C. (2021). Ridership exceedance exposure risk: Novel indicators to assess PM2.5 health exposure of bike-sharing riders. Environmental Research, 197, 111020

Zhang, Y., Wei, J., Shi, Y., Quan, C., Ho, H.C., Song, Y., & Zhang, L. (2021). Early-life exposure to submicron particulate air pollution relates to onset of childhood asthma: A retrospective investigation. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2021.02.030

Cheng, J., Ho, H.C., Webster, C., Su, H., Pan, H., Zheng, H., & Xu, Z. (2021). Lower-than-standard particulate matter air pollution reduced life expectancy in Hong Kong: A time-series analysis of 8.5 million years of life lost. Chemosphere. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.129926

Li, C., Bloom, M.S., Lin, S., Ren, M., Hajat, S., Wang, Q., Zhang, W., Ho, H.C., Zhao, Q., Lin, Y., & Huang, C. (2021). Temperature variation and preterm birth among live singleton deliveries in Shenzhen, China: A time-to-event analysis. Environmental Research, 195, 110834.

Wang, X., Xu, Z., Su, H., Ho, H.C., Song, Y., Zheng, H., Hossain, M.Z., Alfazal Khan, M., Bogale, D., Wei, J., & Cheng, J. (2021). Ambient particular matters (PM1, PM2.5, PM10) and childhood pneumonia: The smaller particle, the greater short-term impact? Science of the Total Environment, 772, 145509.

Zuo, S., Yang, L., Dou, P., Ho, H.C., Dai, S., Ma, W., Ren, Y., & Huang, C. (2021). The direct and interactive impacts of hydrological factors on bacillary dysentery across different geographical regions in central China. Science of the Total Environment, 764, 144609.

Chang. K., Wong, F., Chan, K.L., Wong, F., Ho, H.C., Wong, M.S., Ho, Y.S., Yuen, J., Siu, J., & Yang, L. (2021). The impact of the environment on the quality of life and the mediating effects of sleep and stress. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 172, 8529.

Guo, H., Wei, J., Li, X., Ho, H.C., Song, Y., Wu, J., & Li, W. (2021). Do socioeconomic factors modify the effects of PM1 and SO2 on lung cancer incidence in China? Science of the Total Environment, 143998.

Ho, H.C., Fong, K., Chan, T.C., & Shi, Y. (2021). The associations between social, built and geophysical environment and age-specific dementia mortality among older adults in a high-density Asian city. International Journal of Health Geographics, 19, 53. DOI: 10.1186/s12942-020-00252-y

Adelson, J.D. et. al. [GBD 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborators]. (2020). Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: the Right to Sight: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. The Lancet Global Health. DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30489-7

Bourne, R. et. al. [GBD 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborators]. (2020). Trends in prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment over 30 years: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. The Lancet Global Health. DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30425-3

GBD 2019 Viewpoint Collaborators (Ho, H.C., & the Global Burden of Disease team). (2020). Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet, 396, 1135-1159.

Mok, K.K., & Ho, H.C. (2021). Finding a home away from home: An explorative study on the use of social space with the voices of foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1813542

Zhong, S., Pang, M., Ho, H.C., Jegasothy, E., Clayton, S., Wang, Z., & Huang, C. (2021). Assessing the effectiveness and pathways of planned shelters in protecting mental health of flood victims in China. Environmental Research Letters. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abc446

Lozano et al. [306th of 790 GBD collaborators] (2020). Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet, in press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30750-9.

Guo, H., Zhan, Q., Ho, H.C., Yao, F., Zhou, X., Wu, J., & Li, W. (2020). Coupling mobile phone data with machine learning: How misclassification errors in ambient PM2.5 exposure estimates are produced? Science of The Total Environment, 745, 141034.

Shi, Y., Bilal, M., Ho, H.C., & Omar, A. (2020). Urbanization and regional air pollution across South Asian developing countries – A nationwide land use regression for ambient PM2.5 assessment in Pakistan. Environmental Pollution, 266 (2), 115145.

Wong, M.S., Ho, H.C., & Tse, A. (2020). Geospatial context of social and environmental factors associated with health risk during temperature extremes: Review and discussion. Geospatial Health, 15 (814), 168-173.

Yang, L., Ho, J., Wong, F., Chang, K., Chan, K.L., Wong, M.S., Ho, H.C., Yuen, J., Huang, J., & Siu, J. (2020). Neighbourhood green space, perceived stress and sleep quality in an urban population. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 54, 126763.

Wang, H., Li, J., Gao, M., Chan, T.C., Gao, Z., Zhang, M., Li, Y., Gu, Y., Chen, A., Yang, Y., & Ho, H.C. (2020). Spatiotemporal variability in long-term population exposure to PM2. 5 and lung cancer mortality attributable to PM2. 5 across the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region over 2010–2016: A multistage approach. Chemosphere, 257, 127153.

Chen, D., Mayvaneh, F., Baaghideh, M., Entezari, A., Ho, H.C., Xiang, Q., Jiao A., Zhang, F., Hu, K., Chen, G., Zhao, Q., Sun, S., & Zhang, Y. (2020). Utilizing daily excessive concentration hours to estimate cardiovascular mortality and years of life lost attributable to fine particulate matter in Tehran, Iran. Science of the Total Environment, 703, 134909. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134909

Chen, X., Jahn, H.J., Ward, T.J., Ho, H.C., Luo, M., Engling, G., & Kraemer, A. (2020). Characteristics and determinants of personal exposure to PM2.5 mass and components in adult subjects in the megacity of Guangzhou, China. Atmospheric Environment, 224, 117295. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117295

Deng, C., Dong, X., Wang H., Lin, W., Wen, H., Frazier, J., Ho, H.C., & Holmes, L. (2020). A data-driven framework for walkability measurement with open data: A case study of Triple Cities, New York. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 9(1), 36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9010036

Guo, C., Sim, T., & Ho, H.C. (2020). Evaluation of risk perception, knowledge, and preparedness of extreme storm events for the improvement of coastal resilience among migrants: A lesson from Hong Kong. Population, Space and Place, e2318. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2318

Ho, H.C., Chan, T.C., Xu, Z., Huang, C., & Li, C. (2020). Individual- and community-level shifts in mortality patterns during the January 2016 East Asia cold wave associated with a super El Niño event: Empirical evidence in Hong Kong. Science of the Total Environment, 711, 135050. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135050

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