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1. Introduction to LEWI

Dr. Dong Dong

Research Assistant Professor, Environment, Health and Sustainability Working

Group of LEWI

Dr. Dong joined LEWI in 2011. She obtained her
doctoral degree in Mass Communication from the
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. Her work

has been published in the Journal of Health
Communication, Chinese Journal of Communication,

Asian Journal of Communication, and the International
Communication Gazette among others. Dr. Dong has

presented her research at more than twenty
international conferences and was invited by a

number of patient organisations in Mainland China
for public speech. Her current research interests are: Health communication, with
an emphasis on the social construction of infectious diseases and public health

crises; Media advocacy and social movements, especially their applications and
implications in the patient rights movements; Environmental communication,

including effect studies on green advertising and sociological research on
Chinese environmental journalism; and Media sociology that investigates both

the process and the products of the news institution from a comparative
perspective. Dr. Dong secured a grant of HKD665,200 from the Chiang Ching-

Kuo Foundation to study the Emergence and Development of the Health Rights
Defense Movement in Contemporary China, and several internal grants from
HKBU on a general survey of patients with rare disorders in China and an

investigation on cross-cultural interpretations of "informed choices" related to

prenatal testing among women from Mainland China, Hong Kong, UK, and
Pakistan. Dr. Dong is also a member of a research team that investigates the
uneven distribution of high-quality healthcare resources in China. The team was

granted RMB1,020,800 by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
(NSFC) in 2016. In addition to academic work, Dr. Dong has been actively

involved in social activities. She is currently working as a consultant to several
patient organisations in China and has published a correspondence in The Lancet

calling for policy changes on rare diseases in China.

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