Ka-che Yip is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.

Yuen-sang Leung is Professor of History, Dean of Arts, and Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.

Man-kong Wong is Director of the China Studies Programme and Associate Professor of History at Hong Kong Baptist University, China.

1. Introduction 2. Disease-control Policies, 1841-1894: Colonial Priorities and Local Realities 3. Disease, Scientific Medicine, and Public Health: from the Plague Epidemic to the Early Twentieth Century 4. Disease, Industrialization and Wartime Destruction, 1920s-1945 5. Health, Disease Control and Post-war Construction, 1945-1960s 6. Epidemiological Transition and Disease Prevention, 1960s-1980s 7. Disease, Socio-economic Transformation, and Transition to Decolonization, 1980s-1997 8. Combating Global Epidemics in the Post-colonial State, 1997-2003 9. Conclusion