Emily Ying Yang Chan

Emily Ying Yang Chan is a humanitarian doctor and public health academic based in Hong Kong, China. She is the Assistant Dean (External Affairs) and Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Medicine,[1] Head of the Division of Global Health and Humanitarian Medicine[2] at the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care,[3] Director at the Centre for Global Health (CGH),[4] 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),[5] Visiting Professor of Public Health Medicine at the Oxford University Nuffield Department of Medicine,[6] Fellow at Harvard University FXB Center for Health and Human Rights,[7] Honorary Professor at University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, and Fellow at Hong Kong Academy of Medicine.[8] She was appointed CEO of the GX Foundation in 2019.

Emily Ying Yang Chan
A pupbic health academic
Born
Hong Kong
NationalityChinese
CitizenshipHong 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,[9][10][11] health and environmental co-benefits,[12][13][14] disaster and humanitarian medicine,[15][16][17][18] global and planetary health, violence and injury epidemiology, healthy settings, health needs and programme impact evaluation,[19] evidence-based medical and public health interventions in resource deficit settings.[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 two international online courses "Climate Change and Health"[22] and "Research Methodology for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response"[23] by her team have also been launched.

Emily Chan is also a Co-chairperson of the World Health Organization Thematic Platform for Health Emergency & Disaster Risk Management Research Network (WHO H-EDRM Research Network), a Co-chairperson of the World Health Organization COVID-19 Research Roadmap Social Science working group, a member of the Asia Science Technology and Academia Advisory Group of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR ASTAAG)[24] and a member of 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 The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK) (Appointed since 20 June 2018 for a period of three years)
  • 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)

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[25][26][27][28] and Bulletin of the World Health Organization.[29] 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,[30] the 2017 UGC Teaching Award[31] 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[32], and nominee of the biennial United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction in 2019.

Publications

Peer-review journal publications

Human health security

Climate change and environmental health

Global health and primary care related/migration/urbanization

Books and book chapters
  • Chan EYY, Shaw R. (eds.) Public health and disasters - Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management in Asia. Tokyo: Springer; forthcoming.
  • Chan EYY. Essentials for health protection: Four key components. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2020. 256 p.        
  • Fakhruddin B, Bostrom A, Cui P, Yu L, Zou Q, Sillmann J, Johnston D, Jimenez V, Chan EYY, Chan GKW, Hung H, Huang Z, Wong CKP, et al. Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) (Contributing Paper to GAR 2019). UNISDR; 2019.
  • Chan EYY. Disaster public health and older people (Routledge Humanitarian Studies). London: Routledge; 2019. 258 p.
  • Chan EYY. Climate Change and Urban Health. London: Routledge; 2019. 288 p.
  • Lo S, Lyne K, Chan E, Capon A, Chapter 2: Planetary health and resilience in Asia. In: Legido-Quigley H, Asgard-Jirhabdeh N, editors. Resilient and people-centred health systems: progress, challenges and future directions in Asia. WHO; 2018.
  • Chan EYY, Building bottom-up health and disaster risk reduction programmes. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2018.
  • 刘思达，陈英凝。大型活动灾难的预防、监测和预警。刘中民主編，现代城市灾难医学救援。北京：清华大学出版社；2018年：38-40。[[null Liu SD,] Chan EYY. Disaster prevention, monitoring and warning for mass events. In: Liu ZM, editor. Current medical assistants of the city disaster. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press; 2018: 38-40. Chinese.]
  • Chan EYY, Ho JY. Urban community disaster and emergency health risk perceptions and preparedness. In: Shaw R, Shiwaku K, Izumi T, editors. Science and technology in disaster risk reduction in Asia: potentials and challenges. London: Academic Press; 2017: 95-110.
  • Shaw R, Chan E, Fang L, Lu L, Shi P, Yang S, Chan G, Wong J, editors. Co-designing DRR solutions: towards participatory action and communication in science, technology and academia. Hong Kong, China: ASTAAG, IRDR and CCOUC; 2017, 98 p.
  • Chan EYY, Hung KKC, Wong CKP, Jamtsho R, Ho JY. Community awareness and response in 2010 Bumthang Great Fire, Bhutan. In: Shaw R, Chan E, Fang L, Lu L, Shi P, Yang S, Chan G, Wong J, editors. Co-designing DRR solutions: towards participatory action and communication in science, technology and academia. Hong Kong, China: ASTAAG, IRDR and CCOUC; 2017: 57-58.
  • Guo CL, Chan EYY, Chung PPW. Disaster response and health risk management during 2010 Hainan flooding in China. In: Shaw R, Chan E, Fang L, Lu L, Shi P, Yang S, Chan G, Wong J, editors. Co-designing DRR solutions: towards participatory action and communication in science, technology and academia. Hong Kong, China: ASTAAG, IRDR and CCOUC; 2017: 33-34.
  • Ho JY, Chan EYY. Translating information from evidence to practice: the case of clenbuterol and food safety in China since late 1990s. In: Shaw R, Chan E, Fang L, Lu L, Shi P, Yang S, Chan G, Wong J, editors. Co-designing DRR solutions: towards participatory action and communication in science, technology and academia. Hong Kong, China: ASTAAG, IRDR and CCOUC; 2017: 64-65.
  • Huang Z, Chan EYY. Weather information dissemination during cold wave in a subtropical metropolis: a case study in Hong Kong. In: Shaw R, Chan E, Fang L, Lu L, Shi P, Yang S, Chan G, Wong J, editors. Co-designing DRR solutions: towards participatory action and communication in science, technology and academia. Hong Kong, China: ASTAAG, IRDR and CCOUC; 2017: 4-5.
  • Chan EYY, Public health humanitarian responses to natural disasters (Routledge Humanitarian Studies) . London: Routledge; 2017. ISBN 978-1-138-95370-3[33]
  • 陈英凝，刘思达。灾难现场评估。刘中民，张连阳主編，中国基层医生灾难创伤紧急救治技术手册。北京：中华医学电子音像出版社；2016年：12-19。[Chan EYY, Liu SD. Field assessment for disaster. In: Liu ZM, Zhang LY, editors. Handbook of disaster injury emergency treatment techniques for primary care physicians in China. Beijing: Chinese Medical Multimedia Press; 2016: 12-19. Chinese.]
  • 陳英凝，陳廣慧，黃嘉寶，黃喆，翁家俊，劉思達。中國農村健康及備災：進階培訓手冊。香港：CCOUC災害與人道救援研究所；2016。[Chan EYY, Chan GKW, Wong CKP, Huang Z, Yung TKC, Liu SD. Health and disaster preparedness in rural China: advanced training manual. Hong Kong: CCOUC and WZQCF; 2016. Traditional Chinese.]
  • Chan EYY, Li W. Role of government and NGOs. In: Wolfson N, Lerner A, Roshal L, editors. Orthopedics in disasters: orthopedic injuries in natural disasters and mass casualty events. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg; 2016: 47-59.
  • Chan EYY, Liu KS, Lee PY, Ling KWK, Wong CS. Training manual on Health and Disaster Preparedness in Rural China. WZQ; February 2016.
  • 陳英凝。公共衛生與通識教育︰跨單元議題剖析。香港︰香港教育圖書公司;2015。[Chan EYY. Public health and liberal studies: analysis of cross-module issues. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Educational Publishing Company; 2015. Chinese.]
  • 陳英凝。香港的城市災害準備情況。馬宗晉主編，十萬個為甚麼‧災難與防護。香港：商務印書館；2015年。
  • 陈英凝，朱迎佳，李宝仪，刘思达。中国农村健康及防灾培训手冊（简体版）。香港：CCOUC灾害与人道救援研究所，无止桥慈善基金；2015年6月。
  • 陳英凝，朱迎佳，李寶儀，劉思達。中國農村健康及防灾培訓手册。香港：CCOUC灾害與人道救援研究所，無止橋慈善基金；2015年3月。
  • Chan EYY. Responding to disasters in low-income countries. In: Griffiths SM, Tang JL, Yeoh EK, editors. Routledge handbook of global public health in Asia. London: Routledge; 2014: 357-371.
  • Chan EYY, Southgate RJ. Responding to chronic disease needs following disasters: a rethink using the Human Security approach. In: Hobson C, Bacon P, Cameron R, editors. Human security and natural disasters (Routledge Humanitarian Studies series). Tokyo: Routledge; 2014.
  • Chan EYY, 1.4.3 Health needs of older people after earthquake. Wright J, Cave B. Chapter 1.4 Assessing health needs. In: Guest C, Ricciardi W, Kawachi I, Lang I, editors. Oxford handbook of public health practice. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press; 2013.
  • 陈英凝。汶川救援点滴。无国界医生志愿工作者合著，无国界医生手记。中国长沙：湖南科学技术出版社；2012年3月：120-3。
  • Chan EYY. Sans frontieres under the sun. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Economic Press; July 2005. Chinese.
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  26. 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.
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