Dr. Angela Leung is Assistant Professor and Chair of Knowledge Exchange and External Relations of the School of Nursing at The University of Hong Kong. She is also the Investigator of the Research Centre of Heart, Brain, Hormone and Healthy Ageing of the University of Hong Kong and Associate Director of Sau Po Centre on Ageing of the University of Hong Kong. She was the awardee of the Hartford Geriatric Scholars Program at the Johns Hopkins University in 2014.

She is an experienced health and nursing educator and active researcher with a wide range of publications in health literacy and health promotion. Dr. Leung organized geragogy-based workshops that trained older adults with the skills to search for reliable health information in the Internet, and this was the first health literacy oriented program in Hong Kong. Dr. Leung has also developed various health literacy tools such as Chinese Health Literacy Scale for Chronic Care (CHLCC). She is working closely with researchers and practitioners to develop different health promotion strategies addressing the importance of health literacy.