Professor (教授) 
Office: 6/F, School of Arts and Humanities, 136A, Nathan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Telephone: (852) 3859 8986
Email: bobolau@twc.edu.hk

Biography
Prof. Bobo Hi-Po Lau holds a PhD in social and health psychology from The University of Hong Kong and an MPhil in social and developmental psychology from The University of Cambridge. Her research spans gerontology, with a focus on family caregiving, longevity among centenarians, and digital adoption in older adults, exemplified by her leadership of the Hong Kong Centenarian Study and the Hong Kong Older Adults Digital Living Study. She has advanced holistic health interventions, collaborating with HKU's Integrative Body-Mind-Spirit (I-BMS) research team on programs such as dyadic I-BMS for family caregivers of cancer patients. Her public mental health work includes studies on post-traumatic growth during Hong Kong's COVID-19 outbreak and community mental health among older adults. She has secured multiple Research Grants Council (RGC) awards and led several major consultancy projects in local NGOs. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal papers and conference presentations in these domains.

Academic and Professional Qualifications
BSocSc, MPhil, PhD

Author Identifications

“Mapping the grey digital divide and diversity in older ICT users post-COVID: A mixed-method research informing service and policy development” (UGC/IDS(C)15/H01/22), Research Grants Council Institutional Development Scheme – Collaborative Research Grant (IDS-CRG), Principal Investigator, HKD$4,388,777.

“Adapting to the challenges of the tenth decade of life: A mixed method study with Hong Kong near-centenarians and centenarians” (UGC/FDS15/M01/19), Faculty Development Scheme, RGC, Principal Investigator, HKD$1,103,042.

Evaluation study on “Services on qualitative and quantitative analysis on intelligent accident detection systems to protect vulnerable households living in the community”, Labour and Welfare Bureau, HKSAR Government, Associate Project Coordinator, HKD$1,200,000.

“Brain Connectome of exceptional longevity: magnetic resonance imaging of (near) centenarians in Hong Kong” (HLCA/M-205/24), Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards (Hong Kong), RGC, Co-Investigator, HKD$389,000.

“Opening the black box of a multicomponent intervention for informal dementia caregivers: A randomized controlled trial using multiphase optimization strategy” (18191781), Health Bureau Research Fund Secretariat Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF), Co-Investigator, HKD$1,470,200.

Lau, B. H. P., Shum, E. N. Y., & Yoon, J.-S. (2025). Attitudes and Perceptions Towards Mobile and Wearable Technologies to Support Health and Cognition Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Hong Kong. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 45(4), 799-809. https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648251349907

Shum, E. N. Y., & Lau, B. H. P. (2024). Perils, Power and Promises: Latent Profile Analysis on the Attitudes Towards Artificial Intelligence (AI) Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in Hong Kong. Computers in Human Behaviour – Artificial Humans, 2(2), 100091. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2024.100091

Lau, B. H. P., Pat, L. Y. C., Siu, J. C. Y., & Shum, E. N. Y. (2024). Positive aspects of caregiving in familial care for nonagenarians and centenarians: Findings from Hong Kong Centenarian Study. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 43(12), 1845-1853. https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648241261462

Lau, B. H. P., Tang, C. S. K., Holroyd, E., & Wong, W. C. W. (2024). Challenges and Implications for Menopausal Health and Help-seeking Behaviors in Midlife Women from United States and China in light of COVID Pandemic: Online Panel Surveys. JMIR Public Health & Surveillance, 2024;10:e46538 https://publichealth.jmir.org/2024/1/e46538

Shum, E. N. Y., Lau, B. H. P., Cheung, K. S. L., Chan, C. L. W., Siu, J. C. Y., Luk, J. K. H., Kwan, J. S. K., Chan, G. M. Y., Pat, L. Y. C., & Martin, P. (2024). Multiple Roads to Success: A Latent Class Analysis on Successful Aging among Hong Kong Near-Centenarians and Centenarians (NCC). International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 99(2), 152-178. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00914150231208681

Pat, Y. C. L., & Lau, B. H. P. (2023). Goal pursuing styles and the emergence of post-traumatic growth: A study with Hong Kong young adults under the 'double hit’ of social movement and COVID. Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 14(2), 112-127.

Yue, R. P. H., Lau, B. H. P., Ng, S. M., Chan, C. L. W., & Yuen, S. (2023). When to be vaccinated? What to consider? Modelling decision-making and time preference for COVID-19 vaccine through a conjoint experiment approach. Vaccine, 41(42), 6300-6308. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264410X23010241

Lau, B. H. P., Huang, Y.-t., Forth, M., Gietal-Basten, S. (2023). Does Same-Sex Marriage Legalization Make Gay Men Want to Have Children? Findings from a Panel Study in Taiwan. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 20, 1267–1275. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-023-00801-7

Lau, B. H. P., Forth, M. W., & Huang, Y-t. (2022). Correlates of Taiwanese gay and bisexual men's family-building preferences: a mediation analysis. Journal of Homosexuality, 69, 1743-1759. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2021.1921509

Lau, B. H. P., Chan, C. L., & Ng, S. (2021). Post-traumatic growth in the first COVID outbreak in Hong Kong. Frontiers in Psychology – Health Psychology, 12, 675132. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.675132

Lau, B. H. P., Chan, C. L., & Ng, S. (2020). Self-compassion buffers the adverse mental health impacts of COVID-19-related threats: Results from a cross-sectional survey at the first peak of Hong Kong’s outbreak. Frontiers in Psychiatry (Public Mental Health), 11, 585270. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.585270