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.

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 Social Welfare Advisory Committee of the Labour and Welfare Bureau under the Government of Hong Kong

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 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 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⁾