David Bishai

Professor David Bishai is Clinical Professor in Public Health and Director of the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong. Before joining HKU, Professor Bishai served as Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for 27 years and as a local health officer at the Maryland Department of Health in 2021. His research focuses on the performance and financing of global public health activities, primary healthcare, vaccines, and health disparities. He authored two books and over 260 peer-reviewed publications. His courses on systems thinking and health economics reached over forty thousand students. As President of the International Health Economics Association, he helped establish a global mentoring network for new researchers. He received his BA from Harvard in Philosophy and Physics, MPH from University of California at Los Angeles, MD from University of California at San Diego, and PhD from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania.