Emily Ying Yang Chan

Emily Ying Yang Chan is a clinical humanitarian doctor and global academic expert in public health and humanitarian medicine based in Hong Kong. She is Assistant Dean (External Affairs) and Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Medicine,[1] Professor at the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care,[2] Director at the Centre for Global Health (CGH),[3] Director of the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), Director of the Centre of Excellence (ICoE-CCOUC) of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR),[4] Visiting Professor of Public Health Medicine at the Oxford University Nuffield Department of Medicine,[5] Fellow at Harvard University FXB Center for Health and Human Rights,[6] Honorary Professor at University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, and Fellow at Hong Kong Academy of Medicine.[7] She was appointed CEO of the GX Foundation in 2019.

Emily Ying Yang Chan
A Public Health Academic
Born
Hong Kong SAR, China
Alma mater
Known forGlobal health and humanitarian medicine
Scientific career
FieldsClimate change and health, health and environmental co-benefits, disaster and humanitarian medicine, global and planetary health, violence and injury epidemiology, healthy settings, health needs and programme impact evaluation, evidence-based medical and public health interventions in resource deficit settings
Institutions

Academic and medical training

She received her academic training from Johns Hopkins University, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong (HKU), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Research and experience

Her research interests include climate change and health,[8][9][10] health and environmental co-benefits,[11][12][13] disaster and humanitarian medicine,[14][15][16][17] global and planetary health, violence and injury epidemiology, healthy settings, health needs and programme impact evaluation,[18] evidence-based medical and public health interventions in resource deficit settings.[19] In Research.com's Best Social Sciences and Humanities Scientists in China ranking 2022, she was ranked 55.[20]

She has been involved in professional technical public health specialist training programmes of the Hong Kong SAR Government (2011–present), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) (2013–2015) and the Health Emergency Response Office of China's National Health and Family Planning Commission (2013–2015). In addition, through the CCOUC China Ethnic Minority Health Project (EMHP) she established in 2009, her team has outreached more than 18,000 villagers in 49 remote, disaster-prone, resource-deficit rural settings in 11 provinces in China and trained about 700 students and scholars from CUHK, HKU, Oxford University and Harvard University. Professor Chan has also established research and training projects in Bhutan and Nepal. Moreover, the international online course "Public Health Principles in Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response"[21] developed by her team to examine the application of public health principles in planning and responding to disaster and humanitarian crises has more than 8,000 students enrolled from six continents since its launch in May 2014. Another 12 international online courses including "Climate Change and Health"[22] and "Research Methodology for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response"[23] developed by her team have also been launched.

Emily Chan is also co-chairperson of the World Health Organization Thematic Platform for Health Emergency & Disaster Risk Management Research Network (WHO H-EDRM Research Network), Co-chairperson of the World Health Organization COVID-19 Research Roadmap Social Science working group (2020–22), and member of the Asia Pacific Science Technology and Academia Advisory Group of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR APSTAAG),[24] World Meteorological Organization SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Task Team, Scientific Working Group (SWG) of World Health Organization Centre for Health Development (WHO Kobe Centre, WKC),[25] Alliance of International Science Organizations on Disaster Risk Reduction (ANSO-DRR) International Steering Committee, and the Third China Committee for Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR China), and serves in various technical consultation capacities for World Health Organization (WHO). She has extensive experience in serving as frontline emergency relief practitioner in the mid-1990s that spans across 20 countries.

Public services
  • Member, Council of Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU) (appointed since 20 June 2018)
  • Grant Review Member, Health and Medical Research Fund, Bureau of Food and Health, HKSAR, Hong Kong (appointed since June 2013)
  • Member, Corruption Prevention Advisory Committee of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), Hong Kong SAR Government (appointed since January 2018)
  • Member, Strategic Advisory Committee, Hong Kong Observatory (appointed since February 2016)
  • Member, Disaster Relief Fund Advisory Committee, Hong Kong SAR Government (appointed since January 2021)
  • Member, Social Welfare Advisory Committee, Labour and Welfare Bureau, Hong Kong SAR Government (appointed since 1 December 2021)
  • Member, Expert Committee of the Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change (appointed since 1 February 2019)
  • Council Member and Technical Advisor, Hong Kong Breast Cancer Foundation (appointed since January 2008)

Awards and recognition

Emily Chan was awarded the 2007 Nobuo Maeda International Research Award of the American Public Health Association and has published more than 200 international peer-reviewed academic/technical/conference articles and seven of these appeared in The Lancet[26][27][28][29] and Bulletin of the World Health Organization.[30] Her community public health resilience and disaster-health related papers have been used as policy references within the WHO and the Health Emergency Response Office of China's National Health and Family Planning Commission. She has also received the Hong Kong Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award in 2004, Caring Physicians of the World Award in 2005, Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World Award in 2005, Hong Kong Humanity Award in 2007, 2015 Leader of the Year Award in 2016, the National Geographic Chinese Explorer Award from the National Geographic Magazine,[31] the 2017 UGC Teaching Award[32] by the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong, a second prize in the 2018 National Teaching Achievement Award (High Education) from the Ministry of Education (MoE), PRC,[33] and nominee of the biennial United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction in 2019.

References
  1. "Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong – Professor Emily Ying-yang CHAN". www.sphpc.cuhk.edu.hk. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
  2. "The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong – Professor Emily Ying-yang CHAN". www.sphpc.cuhk.edu.hk. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
  3. "People". www.cgh.cuhk.edu.hk. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
  4. "Prof. Emily Chan – CCOUC – Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response". ccouc.org. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
  5. "Professor Emily Y.Y. Chan – Nuffield Department of Medicine". www.ndm.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
  6. "Emily Y. Y. Chan". FXB Center for Health & Human Rights | Harvard University. September 17, 2015. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
  7. "Hong Kong Academy of Medicine". www.hkam.org.hk. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
  8. Ives, Mike (June 8, 2017). "In India, Slight Rise in Temperatures Is Tied to Heat Wave Deaths". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
  9. "Human frontiers: How much heat can the body and mind take?". Reuters. September 22, 2017. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
  10. "Living in the heat of the moment | Data | China Daily". www.chinadailyhk.com. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  11. "RTHK Radio 3's main evening newscast "Newswrap" (18:00 – 19:00, 26 April)". rthk.hk. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
  12. "Young Hongkongers lagging the old in adapting to green lifestyle". www.scmp.com. April 26, 2016. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
  13. "Older people better at carbon reduction, study shows". chinadailyasia.com. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
  14. "Hongkongers are ill prepared for aftermath of natural disaster". www.scmp.com. November 18, 2013. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
  15. "Hong Kong people not ready to deal with natural disasters, experts say". www.scmp.com. March 23, 2015. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
  16. "More lives saved with bottom-up approach to disaster relief". www.scmp.com. August 18, 2014. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
  17. "RTHK Radio 3's morning current affairs programme "Hong Kong Today" --Workshop on reducing disaster risks". rthk.hk. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
  18. "Health experts train local communities to prepare for disasters". Reuters. March 15, 2016. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
  19. "HK$40 kit bag that makes difference of life or death". www.scmp.com. April 3, 2014. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
  20. "World's Best Social Sciences and Humanities Scientists: H-Index Social Sciences and Humanities Science Ranking in China 2022". Research.com. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  21. "ccouc". phpidccouc.conted.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
  22. "ccouc". www.hkjcdpri.org.hk/elearning/climate-change-and-health. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
  23. "Online Course - Research Methodology for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response - CCOUC - Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response". ccouc.org. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
  24. "First Asian Science and Technology Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (ASTCDRR) – UNISDR". www.unisdr.org. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
  25. "WHO Kobe Centre (WKC) Scientific Working Group members". WHO Kobe. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
  26. Chan, Emily YY (2008). "The untold stories of the Sichuan earthquake". The Lancet. 372 (9636): 359–62. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61141-1. PMID 18675675. S2CID 10220372.
  27. Chan, Emily Y Y; Liu, Sida; Hung, Kevin K C (2013). "Typhoon Haiyan and beyond". The Lancet. 382 (9908): 1873. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62415-0. PMID 24275504. S2CID 5495561.
  28. Barnett-Vanes, Ashton; Hung, Kevin KC; Maruthappu, Mahiben; Shalhoub, Joseph; Chan, Emily YY (2013). "Improving health in humanitarian crises: from reactive to proactive". The Lancet. 382 (9893): 679. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61768-7. PMID 23972802. S2CID 205970465.
  29. Chan, Emily Y Y; Wang, Zhe; Mark, Carman K M; Da Liu, Si (2015). "Industrial accidents in China: risk reduction and response". The Lancet. 386 (10002): 1421–2. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00424-9. PMC 7138044. PMID 26466026.
  30. "Hospital admissions as a function of temperature, other weather phenomena and pollution levels in an urban setting in China". www.who.int. Archived from the original on May 1, 2014. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
  31. http://www.natgeomedia.com/column/explorer/52988%5B%5D
  32. "Two Outstanding Scholars Awarded 2017 UGC Teaching Award | CUHK Communications and Public Relations Office". www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
  33. "教育部关于批准2018年国家级教学成果奖获奖项目的决定 - 中华人民共和国教育部政府门户网站". www.moe.gov.cn. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
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