Academic Staff

Prof. Winsome LAM is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is the subject lead in both undergraduate and master program related to Community Health Nursing. 

Winsome has special research interests in health promotion to children and their families. Her current research studies focus on pediatric palliative service, health technology application, parental support in symptom management for children with medical complexity including cancer and non- cancer case.

She has successfully secured over 10 million in grants and obtained several external competitive grants such as Donation for Research (PI in 2026), Health and Medical Research Fund (PI of HMRF 2025), General Research Fund (PI of GRF 2023) , Scientific Research Project of Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission (PI) in 2020, and HMRF (co-I) in 2021 and General Research Fund (co-I of GRF) in 2018.  

Owing to Winsome's expertise in paediatric home nursing, she has served as an international grant reviewer for the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), United Kingdom, since 2026, and as a reviewer for different international Q1 journals since 2016 i.e. Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Child Health Care, Qualitative Health Research, BMC Italian Journal of Pediatric, Child and Youth Service Review, Journal of Family Issues, Health and Social Care in Community etc.