About the NTU-Kim Koo Professor

Each year, the College of Social Sciences and the Global Asia Research Center invite a globally renowned scholar to serve as the NTU-Kim Koo Professor and teach a mini-course. This annual NTU-Kim Koo Professorship Lecture Series enables students and faculty members to exchange scholarly ideas with distinguished scholars beyond Taiwan. This year, we are more than honored to have Professor Terry Lum from the University of Hong Kong to talk about Mental Health Care for Older People.

Professor Lum, a faculty member in Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Hong Kong, specializes in long-term care, productive aging, and geriatric mental health. He advises the Hong Kong Government on long-term care policies, including assessment tools, service matching, and community care vouchers. He leads projects on aging, frailty prevention, and mental health and is an invited member of WHO committees on healthy aging. Formerly a tenured professor at the University of Minnesota, he was elected a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and currently serves on social welfare committees as well as the Hong Kong Minimum Wage Commission.