Founder

Be Priceless

Hong Kong | Asia

I am a gardener at heart – for plants, our children (seedlings) and our community forest in Hong Kong. I aspire to cultivate their long-term health through cultivating their growth in mental, physical, and social safety, well-being, and health. My services integrate nature’s wisdom, community engagement, with science from medicine, public health, behavioral change, and research.   

For the past 22 years, I have served in humanitarian health care and health education. This includes training health workers in refugee camps. I have also worked towards the healing and health of people facing public health disasters (previously in the World Health Organization and hold a masters in public health from the Johns Hopkins University) and critical illness (as a doctor in ICU and former Clinical Assistant Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong). 

In 2015, I founded a non-profit organization Be Priceless to facilitate and improve child protection, well-being, personal growth, and relationships. We work with a diverse group of children and their families to build their foundation of health through nurturing mindsets, behaviors, and connections. This includes children with neurodiversity, ethnic diversity, displacement, migration, single-parent or low-income families. We empower through health behavioral education, community partnerships, and participatory research. This is made possible through the collaboration with trans-sectoral professionals, as well as hundreds of diverse children, caregivers and community members. It has been a privilege to walk with children and families on their journeys towards greater quality of life, sense of well-being and safety, as well as trust. I am so proud to see that the majority of them serve the community more after our training. I love being able to witness the children’s journeys to realise that they are priceless and limitless. 

Throughout my career and Be Priceless’s programs, I have intuitively and later intentionally been drawn to systems change to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crisis with people who live with higher risks. Applying compassionate systems awareness and transformation is a much needed dimension in our community’s journey towards healthy children across their life courses, trans-generational health, and health equity.