Academic Staff

Jed is an Associate Professor and Associate Head (Strategy) in the School of Nursing, and Director of the JBI Hong Kong Centre of Evidence-based Healthcare Excellence. Trained in gerontology and medical–surgical nursing, he has academic and clinical experience across the Philippines, New Zealand, and Australia. His teaching focuses on gerontology and aged care, and he previously developed the Master of Ageing, Wellbeing and Sustainability curriculum in Australia.

His research centres on healthy ageing (social frailty, loneliness, cognitive health), nursing implementation science, workforce wellbeing, and digital/AI-enabled care. He leads and co-leads competitive programmes spanning hybrid effectiveness–implementation trials and digital interventions, and has delivered WHO-commissioned work informing age-friendly frameworks and science literacy in emergencies. As Director of the JBI Hong Kong Centre, he partners closely with the Hong Kong Hospital Authority to lead implementation projects with system-wide impact (for example, HA-wide implementation of the 2014 Glasgow Coma Scale). To date, he has contributed to more than 31 funded interdisciplinary projects, attracting approximately HKD 28 million across external competitive, contract, and internal schemes. His scholarly outputs are widely published in high-impact journals, complemented by editorial leadership as Editor (Journal of Clinical Nursing), Associate Editor (Journal of Evidence Implementation), and Deputy Editor-in-Chief (Australasian Journal on Ageing). He also supervises a growing cohort of research postgraduate students, aligning training with implementation and impact.

Jed has been recognised among the world’s top 2% of scientists (Stanford/Elsevier, 2025). He is a Top 10 Finalist for the 2025 Aster Guardian Global Nursing Award, and a Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursing (National Hartford Center for Gerontological Nursing Excellence, US). Earlier honours include the NZNO Young Nurse of the Year Award (2016), selection for the International Council of Nurses’ Global Nursing Leadership Institute Policy Programme (2018), and an Australian College of Nursing Policy Program Fellowship (2021). His leadership and service include roles as Director of the JBI Centre, education consultant to the International Council of Nurses, reviewer for national funding bodies, and appointments on national committees in New Zealand (Nursing Council Registrant and Education Quality Committee; Chair, NZNO Nursing Research Section; Executive, New Zealand Association of Gerontology) and Australia (Executive, AAG NSW; Deputy Chair, Healthy Ageing Faculty, Australian College of Nursing).