{"id":2852,"date":"2025-12-24T03:19:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cmhahk.org\/board-and-advisors\/doni-shamsuddin-copy-copy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T02:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:12:59","slug":"dr-olya-zayts-spence","status":"publish","type":"board-and-advisors","link":"https:\/\/www.cmhahk.org\/tc\/board-and-advisors\/dr-olya-zayts-spence\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Olya Zayts-Spence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div block-name=\"cm-board-detail\" class=\"cm-board-detail py-10\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"container-xxs\">\n            <div>\n\n                <a href=\"\/tc\/board-and-advisors\"\n                    class=\"back-to-list-btn relative 4xl:mt-[29px] mt-4 inline-flex items-center font-secondary font-bold text-text-black text-body leading-[normal] \">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cmhahk.org\/wp-content\/themes\/cmha-hk\/public\/images\/icons\/left-arrow-black.svg\"\n                        class=\"max-w-[26px] mr-[10px]\" \/>\n                    <div class=\"min-w-[89px] relative min-h-[26px]\">\n                        <span class=\"inline-block ml-[10px] hover whitespace-nowrap\">\u8fd4\u56de\u5217\u8868<\/span>\n                        <span class=\"inline-block ml-[10px] unhover whitespace-nowrap\">\u8fd4\u56de\u5217\u8868<\/span>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/a>\n\n                <div class=\"mt-5 lg:py-20 md:py-10 py-5 lg:rounded-[48px] lg:rounded-tr-none rounded-xl rounded-tr-none border border-black-medium bg-black 3xl:px-[100px] xl:px-20 lg:px-16 md:px-10 px-5\">\n                    <div class=\"flex md:flex-row flex-col-reverse\">\n\n                        <div class=\"md:w-[67.6%] 4xl:pr-[120px] xl:pr-20 lg:pr-16 md:pr-10\">\n                            <h2 class=\"heading2 font-bold leading-[normal] text-brand-teal mb-1\">\n                                Dr Olya Zayts-Spence                            <\/h2>\n\n                            <div class=\"text-body font-normal leading-[160%] text-black-text-medium font-primary\">\n                                <p>The University of Hong Kong<\/p>\n                            <\/div>\n\n                            <div class=\"lg:mt-8 mt-5 text-body font-normal leading-[160%] text-text-black font-primary\">\n                                <p>Olya arrived in Hong Kong in December 2003 after completing her PhD studies in St. Petersburg, Russia, and she has researched and taught in Hong Kong ever since. Her areas of expertise and research interests broadly include health communication in setting related to mental health, genetic health and Chinese medicine among others. She has a long-standing collaboration with public hospitals and healthcare institutions in Hong Kong. She has also done extensive research in several large international corporations and privately owned business.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She currently directs Research and Impact Initiative for Communication in Healthcare at the University of Hong Kong (HKU RIICH), that is part of the International Consortium for Communication in Healthcare. Other key stakeholders of the consortium include the Australian National University, Harvard University, Nanyang Technological University, University College London, Queensland University of Technology and Lancaster University. Olya has published extensively on various aspects of healthcare communication, and she is the Founding Editor of the book series &#8220;Language, Health and Culture&#8221; (Routledge). Currently she is busy working on a book-length manuscript &#8220;Happy Thriving Workplaces&#8221; (with Zoe Fortune) and pursuing her second advanced degree in Public Health.<\/p>\n<div class=\"NewsList\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n\n                                                    <\/div>\n\n                        <div class=\"md:w-[32.4%] md:mb-0 mb-10\">\n                            <div class=\"rounded-[13.33px] rounded-tr-none overflow-hidden\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cmhahk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dis-Dr-Olga-Olya-A.-Zayts-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Olya Zayts-Spence\"\n                                    class=\"md:aspect-[400\/600] aspect-square w-full object-cover\">\n                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"board-category":[55],"class_list":["post-2852","board-and-advisors","type-board-and-advisors","status-publish","hentry","board-category-our-advisory-panel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmhahk.org\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/board-and-advisors\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmhahk.org\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/board-and-advisors"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmhahk.org\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/board-and-advisors"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmhahk.org\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/board-and-advisors\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3877,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmhahk.org\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/board-and-advisors\/2852\/revisions\/3877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmhahk.org\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"board-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmhahk.org\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/board-category?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}