Terry Lum

Professor Terry Lum is the Henry G. Leong Professor in Social Work and Social Administration and the Head of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). His research focuses on long term care, productive aging, and geriatric mental health. He is currently directing several large intervention research projects to prevent physical frailty and geriatric depression and policy research projects to enhance the long-term care infrastructure and age friendliness in Hong Kong. He taught in the University of Minnesota for 12 years before he joined the HKU. He was elected as a Fellow by the Gerontological Society of America in 2011 and was awarded the Career Leadership Award by the Association of Gerontology Education in Social Work (AGESW) in 2016. Professor Lum is the co-Editor of the journal Aging and Mental Health.