Emily Chan
Professor Emily Ying Yang Chan is a Chinese public health academic based in Hong Kong. She is the Assistant Dean of External Affairs at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) where she also works as a Professor in the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care.1) She is Director of the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response, the CUHK Centre for Global Health, and the International Centre of Excellence in Health and Community Resilience of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR).
Chan is also a fellow of the Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability (IEES), Morningside College and the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. She is a visiting Professor of Public Health Medicine at the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Medicine, and an honorary professor at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong.
She has served in a number of government and non-governmental positions, including:
- Member of the Strategic Advisory Committee for the Hong Kong Observatory
- Member of the Council of Hong Kong Metropolitan University
- Member of the Asia-Pacific Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (AP-STAG) of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
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- Member of the Social Welfare Advisory Committee of the Labour and Welfare Bureau
- Member of the Disaster Relief Fund Advisory Committee
- Member of the Council for Sustainable Development
History
Education
Chan received a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and also attended Harvard University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.2)
Career
Chan received the World Medical Association’s Caring Physicians of the World Award in 2005.
In 2007, Chan received the Nobuo Maeda International Research Award from the American Public Health Association (APHA).
In 2016, Chan received the National Geographic Chinese Explorer Award from the National Geographic Society.
Chan served as co-chair of the WHO Thematic Platform for Health-EDRM Research Network (TPRN), operational from 2018-2020.3)
COVID-19
Chan participated in a February 11-12, 2020 event titled “2019 novel Coronavirus Global research and innovation forum: towards a research roadmap” co-hosted by the World Health Organization R&D Blueprint and Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GLOPID-R). She and Nina Gobat presented on the topic of “Integrating social sciences in the outbreak response”.4) Gobat and Chan chair the R&D Blueprint's COVID-19 Social Science Working Group.5) The pair co-authored a paper called Bottom-up citizen engagement for health emergency and disaster risk management: directions since COVID-19, published in June 2021.6)
She also participated as a member of the World Meteorological Organization's COVID-19 Task Team.7)
In March 2023, Chan co-authored a study titled A longitudinal study of COVID-19 preventive behavior fatigue in Hong Kong: a city with previous pandemic experience.8)
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Professor CHAN Ying Yang, Emily - Deanery - Faculty Management - People - About Us. Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Retrieved April 9, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230409230338/https://www.med.cuhk.edu.hk/staff/professor-chan-ying-yang-emily
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Disaster Risk Management and Resilience, Health Security Preparedness. (2019). WHO Thematic Platform for Health-EDRM Research Network (TPRN). World Health Organization Centre for Health Development. https://web.archive.org/web/20230409232120/https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/health-security-preparedness/drr/who-thematic-platform-for-health-edrm-research-network-%28tprn%29.pdf?sfvrsn=34833a41_5&download=true
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2019 novel Coronavirus Global research and innovation forum: towards a research roadmap AGENDA. (2020). GLOPID-R. https://web.archive.org/web/20230208185417/https://www.glopid-r.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/covid-19-global-research-and-innovation-forum-2020-program.pdf
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COVID-19 Social Science working group. (2020, February). World Health Organization. https://web.archive.org/web/20220428091600/https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/blue-print/socsci-tors.pdf?sfvrsn=770270b0_6&download=true
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Chan, E. Y. Y., Gobat, N., Dubois, C., Bedson, J., & de Almeida, J. R. (2021). Bottom-up citizen engagement for health emergency and disaster risk management: directions since COVID-19. The Lancet, 398(10296), 194–196. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(21)01233-2
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WMO COVID-19 Task Team. (2021, March 17). Report examines meteorological and air quality factors and COVID-19. World Meteorological Organization. https://web.archive.org/web/20230307093050/https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/report-examines-meteorological-and-air-quality-factors-and-covid-19
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Kim, J. H., Kwok, K. O., Huang, Z., Poon, P. K., Hung, K. K. C., Wong, S. Y. S., & Chan, E. Y. Y. (2023). A longitudinal study of COVID-19 preventive behavior fatigue in Hong Kong: a city with previous pandemic experience. BMC Public Health, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15257-y