Engaging with Partners Before I talk about the increasing diversity within HKUMed, let me also tell you about the other fruits we harvested from our visits overseas. Apart from meeting with potential recruits, we had productive discussions on the current and future directions of our interactions with top universities, including new partnerships, research collaborations, and opportunities for our students to spend time at these universities through the Enrichment Year (EY) and other exchanges. In the UK, we visited nine institutions, including places such as University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and the Francis Crick Institute. A couple of examples of our outcomes included renewing our MoU with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in October to strengthen engagement on public health and expand EY opportunities; and, earlier this month, signing an MoU with King’s College London, for more frequent exchanges and collaboration. In North America, we touched base with numerous institutions we have existing working agreements with, such as University of Toronto, the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, New York University and Columbia University. We also attended the U21 Health Sciences Group 2025 Annual Meeting at McMaster University in Canada, where we met with representatives from member institutions worldwide. We are also in ongoing discussions with other strategic partners to roll out new cross-border models of academic activity, such as joint taught master’s and doctoral pathways, joint postdoctoral fellowships, joint research projects, undergraduate intercalation options, clinical electives and more. I look forward to sharing concrete developments as they take shape. 4
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