Professor Terry Lum holds the Henry G. Leong Professorship in Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong. His primary research interests are aging policy and mental health. He is a member of the Chief Executive Policy Unit and the Research Committee of the Our Hong Kong Foundation. He also serves as a member of the social services committee in several large NGOs. He directed several large-scale social care interventions, including the JC JoyAge Project, the JC Age-Friendly City Project, and the GrandMove Project. Internationally, he is a member of two World Health Organization’s Committees in Healthy Aging and Global Long-term Care Network and a commissioner of the Lancet Commission on Long-term Care for Older Persons. His contributions to the field have been recognized through his election as a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America in 2011, the prestigious Career Leadership Award by the Association of Gerontology Education in Social Work in the United States in 2016, and the Kim-Koo -NTU Professorship in Taiwan in 2024. He was awarded the Faculty of Social Sciences’ Knowledge Exchange Award in 2014 and 2024 and the Faculty of Architecture’s Knowledge Exchange Award in 2017, and the HKU Knowledge Exchange Excellency Award in 2024.
- • Member, Chief Executive Policy Unit, HKSAR Government
- • Member, Research Committee, Our Hong Kong Foundation
- • Member, Salvation Army Social Services Advisory Committee, Salvation Army, Hong Kong.
- • Member, Caritas Social Work Committee, Caritas Hong Kong
- • Member, Service Development Strategy Sub-committee, Neighbourhood Advice-Action Council, HKSAR
- • Member, Lancet Commission on Long Term Care.
- • Member, WHO’s Global Long-term Care Network
Externally Funded Research
- • Jockey Club Inclusive Employment Project. Funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities. Amount: 13.02 million. Sep 1, 2024 – March 31, 2028.
- • Mental Health Project in Primary Care Setting. Funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities. Amount: HK$54.04 million to HKU to develop and implement the services, and an additional HK$323 million to 17 NGOs to implement the protocols developed by the HKU team in 47 centers. Award Period: Jan 2024 – June 2027.
- • GrandMove for All project. Funded by the Simon K.Y. Lee Foundation Limited. Amount: 6.417 million. Award period: Jan 1, 2024, to Dec 31, 2026.
- • The evaluation of the Community Re-integration Project for People in Recovery of Severe Mental Illness. Funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. Award amount: 3.44 million. Award period: Sep 2023 – Feb 2027.
- • Apply Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) in the development of community social capital through a timebank strategy. Awarded by the Community Investment and Inclusion Fund of the Home and Youth Affairs Bureau, HKSAR Government. Amount: HK$4.13 million. Award Period: Sep 2023 to Aug 2026.
- • Understanding the dynamic nature of the healthy aging framework: A real-time assessment of person-environment interaction using smartphone application and ecological momentary assessment. Awarded by the Research Grants Council under the General Research Fund. Amount: HK$946,656 from the Research Grant Council’s General Research Fund (award period Jan 2023 – Aug 2024).
- • E2Power: Engagement and empowerment of communities through social capital development. Awarded by the Research Grants Council under the Research Impact Fund (RIF). Award amount: Total: HK$7.0 million, including HK$4.900 million from RGC, with HK$2.1 million matching fund from the HKU (award period: May 2021 – April 2026).
- • Lu, S., Chui, C., & Lum, T. (2025). Timebanking Promotes Equitable Volunteering in Older Adults Without Crowding-Out Effects: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Study in Hong Kong. The Gerontologist, gnaf200.
- • Wang, Y.-H., Wang, Y.-L., Leung, D. K. Y., Ng, Z. L. Y., Chan, O. L. H., Wong, S. M. Y., Chan, R. C. L., Liu, T., Wong, G. H. Y., & Lum, T. Y. S. (2025). Effectiveness of an age-modified mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in improving mental health in older people with depressive symptoms: a non-randomised controlled trial. BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, 25(1), 1-16.
- • Yau, J. H.-Y., Kanagawa, H. S., For, W.-Y., Lo, M. W.-S., Wong, S. L.-K., Ho, K. T.-K., Cheung, A. S.-K., Ho, F. H.-Y., Lee, D. C.-L., & Sui, I. L.-C., Liu T., Wong G. H.Y., Chui C.H.K., Lum T. Y.S. (2025). Co-developing community-based participatory research (CBPR) guidelines in Hong Kong: an example of a mental health literacy promotion project. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24, 1-14.
- • Yiu, E. K. L., Wong, S. M. Y., Lee, J. K. Q., Ng, Z. L. Y., Leung, D. K. Y., Chan, W. C., Wong, G. H. Y., & Lum, T. Y. S. (2025). Navigating challenges in peer support work: perspectives of peer supporters from a stepped care intervention for older adults with depressive symptoms. Health Expectations, 28(5), e70430.
- • Yiu, E. K. L., Wong, S. M. Y., Leung, D. K. Y., Liu, T., Chan, W. C., Wong, G. H. Y., & Lum, T. Y. S. (2025). Formal and informal sources of social support and their differential associations with intervention outcomes for depressive and anxiety symptoms among older adults. Journal of Affective Disorders, 119696.