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Emily Ying Yang Chan is the Assistant Dean (Development) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Medicine,[1] Associate Director (External Affairs and Collaboration) at the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care[2] and 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),[4] Honorary Research Fellow (Emerging Infectious Diseases and Emergency Preparedness) at the Oxford University Nuffield Department of Medicine,[5] Visiting Scholar at Harvard University FXB Center[6] and Fellow at Hong Kong Academy of Medicine.[7]

Medical Training

She received her academic training from Johns Hopkins University, Harvard 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

Her research interests include climate change and health, health and environmental co-benefits,[8][9][10] disaster and humanitarian medicine,[11][12][13][14] global and planetary health, violence and injury epidemiology, healthy settings, health needs and programme impact evaluation,[15] evidence-based medical and public health interventions in resource deficit settings.[16]

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 almost 6,600 households in 23 remote, disaster-prone, resource-deficit rural settings in China and trained nearly 400 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"[17] developed by her team to examine the application of public health principles in planning and responding to disaster and humanitarian crises has almost 3,600 students enrolled from six continents since its launch in May 2014. Another international online course "Climate Change and Health"[18] by her team was launched in November 2015.

Emily Chan is also a member of the Asia Science Technology and Academia Advisory Group of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR ASTAAG)[19] 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.

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[20][21][22][23] and Bulletin of the World Health Organization.[24] 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.

References

  1. ^ "Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Professor Emily Ying-yang CHAN". www.sphpc.cuhk.edu.hk. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  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 2016-06-21.
  3. ^ "People". www.cgh.cuhk.edu.hk. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  4. ^ "Prof. Emily Chan - CCOUC - Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response". ccouc.org. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  5. ^ "Professor Emily Y.Y. Chan - Nuffield Department of Medicine". www.ndm.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  6. ^ "Emily Y. Y. Chan". FXB Center for Health & Human Rights | Harvard University. 2015-09-17. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  7. ^ "Hong Kong Academy of Medicine". www.hkam.org.hk. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  8. ^ "RTHK Radio 3's main evening newscast "Newswrap" (18:00 – 19:00, 26 April)". rthk.hk. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
  9. ^ "Young Hongkongers lagging the old in adapting to green lifestyle". www.scmp.com. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
  10. ^ "Older people better at carbon reduction, study shows". chinadailyasia.com. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
  11. ^ "Hongkongers are ill prepared for aftermath of natural disaster". www.scmp.com. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
  12. ^ "Hong Kong people not ready to deal with natural disasters, experts say". www.scmp.com. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
  13. ^ "More lives saved with bottom-up approach to disaster relief". www.scmp.com. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
  14. ^ "RTHK Radio 3's morning current affairs programme "Hong Kong Today" --Workshop on reducing disaster risks". rthk.hk. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
  15. ^ "Health experts train local communities to prepare for disasters". www.reuters.com. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
  16. ^ "HK$40 kit bag that makes difference of life or death". www.scmp.com. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
  17. ^ "ccouc". phpidccouc.conted.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  18. ^ "ccouc". www.hkjcdpri.org.hk/elearning/climate-change-and-health. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  19. ^ "First Asian Science and Technology Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (ASTCDRR) - UNISDR". www.unisdr.org. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  20. ^ "The untold stories of the Sichuan earthquake". thelancet.com. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
  21. ^ "Typhoon Haiyan and beyond". thelancet.com. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
  22. ^ "Improving health in humanitarian crises: from reactive to proactive". thelancet.com. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
  23. ^ "Industrial accidents in China: risk reduction and response". thelancet.com. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
  24. ^ "Hospital admissions as a function of temperature, other weather phenomena and pollution levels in an urban setting in China". www.who.int. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
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