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 and the CUHK Centre for Global Health.

She is also a fellow of the Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability (IEES) and Morningside College.

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⁾

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”.³⁾ Gobat and Chan chair the R&D Blueprint's COVID-19 Social Science Working Group.⁴⁾