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Prof. Jingwei Alex HE
PhD in Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Acting Director, Institute for Public Policy
Associate Professor, Division of Public Policy

Research Areas

Research Interests

Comparative social policy
Policy innovation and entrepreneurship
Health policy and governance

Biography

Dr Alex Jingwei He holds a tenured associate professorship at the Division of Public Policy, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Prior to his appointment at the HKUST, he spent 11 years at the Department of Asian and Policy Studies of The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) where he served as associate head of department. Dr He received his PhD degree in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He specializes in public policy analysis, health policy and governance, and comparative social policy, with particular focus on East Asia. He has published extensively in these areas, contributing articles to leading international journals and publishing houses, including Public Administration Review, Policy Sciences, The China Quarterly, Health Policy & Planning, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Contemporary China, Social Policy & Administration, Policy & Society, Health Policy, among many others. Dr He was ranked among the world’s top 2% most cited scientists in public administration and political science (2021 single year impact).

In May 2021, the University Grants Council (UGC) announced the results of the 2020 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), Hong Kong’s official scheme assessing the research performance and achievement of public universities. All eight public universities in Hong Kong participated in the disciplinary area of political science (including public administration, public policy, and international relations), or Unit of Assessment #25 (UoA 25), submitting their best research impact cases. In the entire Unit, Dr He's impact case was among the only two research impact cases unanimously rated ‘outstanding’ (four star)—the top score—by the international expert panel.

Since 2014, Dr He has received six external competitive projects funded by the General Research Fund (GRF, x3), Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (PPR), the Early Career Scheme (ECS), and the World Health Organization (APO). Two of his GRF projects were rated 5.0 full score by the international review panel.

Dr He is Associate Editor of Policy and Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Policy Research (SSCI Q1) and the Journal of Asian Public Policy (SSCI Q2), Executive Member of the East Asian Social Policy Network (EASP), and the alumnus of the Ronald 2oase Institute. He was twice the recipient of the EdUHK President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Research and held the Lowenstein Fellowship, Ronald Coase Institute Fellowship, and NUS Research Scholarship.

As a policy scholar, Dr He is actively engaged in policy advocacy. His articles appeared in leading newspapers, including China Daily, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Ming Pao and Singtao Daily. He was interviewed by the Phoenix TV, China Central Television (English channel), The Straits Times, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), ATV, China Radio International, and CBS News in the US on various policy issues.

HIGHLIGHTED PUBLICATIONS

  • He, J.*, Fan, Y., and Su, R. (2023). Unpack the black box of pilot sampling in policy experimentation: a qualitative comparative analysis of China’s public hospital reform. Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12804
  • Mintrom, M., Maurya, D., and He, J. (eds.), 2020. Policy Entrepreneurship: An Asian Perspective, London: Routledge.
  • He, J., Fan, Y., & Su, R. (2022). Seeking policy solutions in a complex system: experimentalist governance in China’s healthcare reform. Policy Sciences, 55(4), 755-776.
  • He, J., Zhang, C., & Qian, J. (2022). Covid-19 and social inequality in China: the local-migrant divide and the limits of social protections in a pandemic. Policy & Society, 41(2), 275-290.
  • Guo, Y., He, J.*, and Wang, F. (2022). Local policy discretion in social welfare: explaining the subnational variation in the de facto poverty line in urban China. The China Quarterly, 249, 114-138.
  • He, J. (2022). The welfare is ours: rural-to-urban migration and domestic welfare chauvinism in urban China. Journal of Contemporary China, 31(134), 202-218.
  • Bali, A.Z., He, J., and Ramesh, M. (2022). Health policy and COVID-19: path dependency and trajectory. Policy & Society, 41(1), 83-95.
  • He, J., Qian, J., Chan, W.S., and Chou, K.L. (2021). Preference for private long-term care insurance products in a super-ageing society: a discrete choice experiment in Hong Kong. Social Science & Medicine, 270, 1136232.
  • He, J., Ratigan, K., and Qian, J. (2021). Attitudinal feedback towards sub-national social policy: a comparison of popular support for social health insurance in China. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 23(3), 350-371.
  • He, J. (2018). Manoeuvring within fragmented bureaucracy and vested interests: policy entrepreneurship in China’s local health care reform, The China Quarterly, 236, 1088-1110.
  • Yin, J.D.C. and He, J.* (2018). Health insurance reforms in Singapore and Hong Kong: How the two ageing Asian Tigers respond to health financing challenges? Health Policy, 122(7), 693-697.

Prof. Jingwei Alex HE
PhD in Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Acting Director, Institute for Public Policy
Associate Professor, Division of Public Policy
(852) 3469 2282
Room 4616A
Google Scholar:
ORCID:
ResearcherID:
Scopus ID:
Comparative social policy
Policy innovation and entrepreneurship
Health policy and governance

Dr Alex Jingwei He holds a tenured associate professorship at the Division of Public Policy, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Prior to his appointment at the HKUST, he spent 11 years at the Department of Asian and Policy Studies of The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) where he served as associate head of department. Dr He received his PhD degree in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He specializes in public policy analysis, health policy and governance, and comparative social policy, with particular focus on East Asia. He has published extensively in these areas, contributing articles to leading international journals and publishing houses, including Public Administration Review, Policy Sciences, The China Quarterly, Health Policy & Planning, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Contemporary China, Social Policy & Administration, Policy & Society, Health Policy, among many others. Dr He was ranked among the world’s top 2% most cited scientists in public administration and political science (2021 single year impact).

In May 2021, the University Grants Council (UGC) announced the results of the 2020 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), Hong Kong’s official scheme assessing the research performance and achievement of public universities. All eight public universities in Hong Kong participated in the disciplinary area of political science (including public administration, public policy, and international relations), or Unit of Assessment #25 (UoA 25), submitting their best research impact cases. In the entire Unit, Dr He's impact case was among the only two research impact cases unanimously rated ‘outstanding’ (four star)—the top score—by the international expert panel.

Since 2014, Dr He has received six external competitive projects funded by the General Research Fund (GRF, x3), Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (PPR), the Early Career Scheme (ECS), and the World Health Organization (APO). Two of his GRF projects were rated 5.0 full score by the international review panel.

Dr He is Associate Editor of Policy and Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Policy Research (SSCI Q1) and the Journal of Asian Public Policy (SSCI Q2), Executive Member of the East Asian Social Policy Network (EASP), and the alumnus of the Ronald 2oase Institute. He was twice the recipient of the EdUHK President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Research and held the Lowenstein Fellowship, Ronald Coase Institute Fellowship, and NUS Research Scholarship.

As a policy scholar, Dr He is actively engaged in policy advocacy. His articles appeared in leading newspapers, including China Daily, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Ming Pao and Singtao Daily. He was interviewed by the Phoenix TV, China Central Television (English channel), The Straits Times, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), ATV, China Radio International, and CBS News in the US on various policy issues.

HIGHLIGHTED PUBLICATIONS

  • He, J.*, Fan, Y., and Su, R. (2023). Unpack the black box of pilot sampling in policy experimentation: a qualitative comparative analysis of China’s public hospital reform. Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12804
  • Mintrom, M., Maurya, D., and He, J. (eds.), 2020. Policy Entrepreneurship: An Asian Perspective, London: Routledge.
  • He, J., Fan, Y., & Su, R. (2022). Seeking policy solutions in a complex system: experimentalist governance in China’s healthcare reform. Policy Sciences, 55(4), 755-776.
  • He, J., Zhang, C., & Qian, J. (2022). Covid-19 and social inequality in China: the local-migrant divide and the limits of social protections in a pandemic. Policy & Society, 41(2), 275-290.
  • Guo, Y., He, J.*, and Wang, F. (2022). Local policy discretion in social welfare: explaining the subnational variation in the de facto poverty line in urban China. The China Quarterly, 249, 114-138.
  • He, J. (2022). The welfare is ours: rural-to-urban migration and domestic welfare chauvinism in urban China. Journal of Contemporary China, 31(134), 202-218.
  • Bali, A.Z., He, J., and Ramesh, M. (2022). Health policy and COVID-19: path dependency and trajectory. Policy & Society, 41(1), 83-95.
  • He, J., Qian, J., Chan, W.S., and Chou, K.L. (2021). Preference for private long-term care insurance products in a super-ageing society: a discrete choice experiment in Hong Kong. Social Science & Medicine, 270, 1136232.
  • He, J., Ratigan, K., and Qian, J. (2021). Attitudinal feedback towards sub-national social policy: a comparison of popular support for social health insurance in China. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 23(3), 350-371.
  • He, J. (2018). Manoeuvring within fragmented bureaucracy and vested interests: policy entrepreneurship in China’s local health care reform, The China Quarterly, 236, 1088-1110.
  • Yin, J.D.C. and He, J.* (2018). Health insurance reforms in Singapore and Hong Kong: How the two ageing Asian Tigers respond to health financing challenges? Health Policy, 122(7), 693-697.