Choi Wai Maggie Chak is a Research Associate and Lecturer at the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre. She works on local, regional, and international projects concerning community engagement, co-creation, health promotion and innovation, such as Change Lab Münster, münster.land.leben, and Innovating Food for Seniors projects. She also teaches Research Seminars and supervises students' theses and consultation projects. Maggie holds a BSc. in Public Health at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, specialising in Health Promotion and Healthcare Management and an MSc. in Epidemiology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. Since 2018, she has pursued her PhD in cooperation with the Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (University of Twente) and the Münster School of Business (FH Münster University of Applied Sciences).

Being deeply influenced by her multidisciplinary training and multisectoral working experience in the public and private sectors, Maggie aspires to bridge the research-practice silos in public health by fostering collaboration between diverse stakeholders. Accordingly, her doctoral research investigates how to improve the performance of Community-Academic Health Partnerships in German-speaking areas. Her works have been presented at the 80th, 81st, and 82nd Annual Meetings of the Academy of Management and are published in international, peer-reviewed journals.

Curriculum Vitae:

• 2017 - Working Student at Staburo GmbH
• 2016-2017 - Research Assistant at Helmholtz Zentrum München
• 2015-2017 - MSc. In Epidemiology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
• 2015 - Assistant Business Analyst at HeHa Digital Health
• 2014 - Research Intern at Statistics and Workforce Planning Department, Hospital Authority
• 2012-2015 - BSc. in Public Health at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Maggie is interested in the topics of technologies and innovation that drive health and societal advancements.

Publications:

1. Chak, C. M., & Carminati, L. (2022). Effective leaders(hip) in community-academic health partnership projects: An inductive, qualitative study. Frontiers in Public Health, 10:94124. Link
2. Chak, C. M., Carminati, L., & Wilderom, C. P. M. (2022). Hope, goal-commitment, and -stress mediating between collaborative leadership, financial resources and performance. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management. [Ahead of Print]. Link
3. Chak, C. M., Carminati, L., & Wilderom, C. P. M. (2022). Interplay of clear, demanding, and important goals on project performance in community-academic health partnerships. Health Care Management Review, 47(3), 208-217. Link
4. Kurzhals, K., Uude, K., Sormani, E., Chak, C. M., & Banze, M. (2022). Das Co-Creation Toolbook: Methoden für eine erfolgreiche Kooperation zwischen Hochschule und Gesellschaft. [The co-creation tool book: Methods for successful university-community collaboration]. Springer Nature. Link
5. Chak, C. M., Lacruz, M. E., Adam, J., Brandmaier, S., Covic, M., ... & Wang-Sattler, R. (2019). Ageing investigation using two-time-point metabolomics data from KORA and CARLA studies. Metabolites, 9(3), 44. Link
6. Chak, C. M., & Carminati, L. (2022). Effective leaders(hip) in community-academic health partnership projects: A qualitative study. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2022(1), 12656. Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management. Link
7. Chak, C. M., Carminati, L., & Wilderom, C. P. M. (2021). Hope, commitment, and stress mediating between leadership, financial resources and CAHP performance. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021(1), 12090. Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management. Link
8. Chak, C. M., & Carminati, L. (2020). Performing in community-academic health partnerships: Interplay of clear, difficult and valued goals. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020(1), 18772. Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management. Link
9. Chak, C. M. (2018). Literature review on relationship building for community-academic collaboration in health research and innovation. MATEC Web of Conferences, 215(1), 02002. EDP Sciences. Link