Hai Liang PhD

Hai Liang PhD

Associate Professor @ CUHK

Digital public health

All publications

  1. Wei, R., Lo, V. H., Huang, Y. H., Dong, D., Liang, H., Huang, G., & Wang, S. (2023). Miscommunicating the COVID-19 pandemic: An Asia perspective. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003355984
  2. Muniz-Rodriguez, K., Schwind, J. S., Yin, J., Liang, H., Chowell, G., Fung, I. C. H. (2023). Exploring social media network connections to assist during public health emergency response: A retrospective case-study of Hurricane Matthew and Twitter users in Georgia, USA. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 17(e315), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2022.285
  3. Evans, H. I., Handberry, M. T., Muniz-Rodriguez, K., Schwind, J. S., Liang, H., Adhikari, B. B., Meltzer, M. I., Fung, I. C. H. (2023). Winter storms and unplanned school closure announcements on Twitter: Comparison between the states of Massachusetts and Georgia, 2017-18. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 17(e132), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2022.41
  4. Bayliss, L. C., Zhu, Y., Fu, K. W., Mullican, L. A., Ahmed, F., Liang, H., Tse, Z. T. H., Saroha, N., Yin, J., Fung, I. C. H. (2021). Conversing or diffusing information? An examination of public health Twitter chats. Journal of Public Interest Communications, 5(2), 27-47. https://doi.org/10.32473/jpic.v5.i2.p27
  5. Zhu, Y., Fu, K. W., Grépin, K. A., Liang, H., Fung, I. C. H. (2020). Limited early warnings and public attention to COVID-19 in China, January-February, 2020: A longitudinal cohort of randomly sampled Weibo users. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 14(5), E24-E27. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.68
  6. Fung, I. C. H., Blankenship, E. B., Ahweyevu, J. O., Cooper, L. K., Duke, C. H., Carswell, S. L., Jackson, A. M., Jenkins, J. C., Duncan, E. A., Liang, H., Fu, K. W., Tse, Z. T. H. (2020). Public health implications of image-based social media: A systematic review of Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Flickr. The Permanente Journal, 24. https://doi.org/10.7812/TPP/18.307
  7. Liang, H., Fung, I. C. H., Tse, Z. T. H., Yin, J., Chan, C. H., Pechta, L. E., Smith, B. J., Marquez-Lameda, R. D., Meltzer, M. I., Lubell, K. M., Fu, K. W. (2019). How did Ebola spread on Twitter: Broadcasting or viral spreading? BMC Public Health, 19(1), 438-458. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-6747-8
  8. Fung, I. C. H., Yin, J., Pressley, K. D., Duke, C. H., Mo, C., Liang, H., Fu, K. W., Tse, Z. T. H., Hou, S. I. (2019). Pedagogical demonstration of Twitter data analysis: A case study of World AIDS Day, 2014. Data, 4(2), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3390/data4020084
  9. Jordan, S. E., Hovet, S. E., Fung, I. C. H., Liang, H., Fu, K. W., Tse, Z. T. H. (2019). Using Twitter for public health surveillance from monitoring and prediction to public response. Data, 4(1), 6-25. https://doi.org/10.3390/data4010006
  10. Schaible, B. J., Snook, K. R., Yin, J., Jackson, A. M., Ahweyevu, J. O., Chong, M., Tse, Z. T. H., Liang, H., Fu, K. W., & Fung, I. C. H. (2019). Twitter conversations and English news media reports on poliomyelitis in five different countries, January 2014 to April 2015. The Permanente Journal. 23. https://doi.org/10.7812/TPP/18-181
  11. Adnan, M. M., Yin, J., Jackson, A. M., Tse, Z. T. H., Liang, H., Fu, K. W., Saroha, N., Althouse, B. M., & Fung, I. C. H. (2019). World Pneumonia Day 2011-16: Twitter contents and retweets. International Health, 11(4), 297–305. https://doi.org/10.1093/inthealth/ihy087
  12. Jackson, A. M., Mullican, L. A., Yin, J., Tse, Z. T. H. T., Liang, H., Fu, K. W., Ahweyevu, J. O., Jenkins, J. J., Saroha, N., & Fung, I. C. H. (2018). #CDCGrandRounds and #VitalSigns: A Twitter analysis. Annals of Global Health, 84(4), 710–716. https://doi.org/10.29024/aogh.2381
  13. Blankenship, E. B., Goff, M. E., Yin, J., Tse, Z. T. H., Fu, K. W., Liang, H., Saroha, N., & Fung, I. C. H. (2018). Sentiment, contents and retweets: A study of two vaccine-related Twitter datasets. Permanente Journal, 22. https://doi.org/10.7812/TPP/17-138
  14. Fung, I. C. H., Zeng, J., Chan, C. H., Liang, H., Yin, J., Liu, Z., Tse, Z. T. H., & Fu, K. W. (2018). Twitter and Middle East respiratory syndrome, South Korea, 2015: A multi-lingual study. Infection, Health and Disease, 23(1), 10-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2017.08.005
  15. Fung, I. C. H., Jackson, A. M., Ahweyevu, J., Grizzle, J., Yin, J., Tse, Z. T. H., Liang, H., Sekandi, J. N., & Fu, K. W. (2017). #Globalhealth Twitter conversations on #Malaria, #HIV, #TB, #NCDS, and #NTDS: A cross-sectional analysis. Annals of Global Health, 83(3-4), 682-690. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2017.09.006
  16. Fu, K. W., Liang, H., Saroha, N., Tse, Z. T. H., Ip, P., & Fung, I. C. H. (2016). How people react to Zika virus outbreaks on Twitter? A computational content analysis. American Journal of Infection Control, 44(12), 1700–1702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2016.04.253