Emily Ying Yang Chan Explained

Emily Ying Yang Chan
Native Name Lang:Cantonese
Birth Place:Hong Kong SAR, China
Fields:Climate 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
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Emily Ying Yang Chan, MH, is a clinical humanitarian doctor and global academic expert in public health and humanitarian medicine based in Hong Kong. She was appointed CEO of the GX Foundation in 2019. She is concurrently Assistant Dean (External Affairs) and Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Medicine,[1] Professor at the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care,[2] 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), Director of the Centre of Excellence (ICoE-CCOUC) of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR),[4] Visiting Professor of Public Health Medicine at the Oxford University Nuffield Department of Medicine,[5] Fellow at Harvard University FXB Center for Health and Human Rights,[6] Honorary Professor at University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, and Fellow at Hong Kong Academy of Medicine.[7]

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,[8] [9] [10] health and environmental co-benefits,[11] [12] [13] disaster and humanitarian medicine,[14] [15] [16] [17] global and planetary health, violence and injury epidemiology, healthy settings, health needs and programme impact evaluation,[18] evidence-based medical and public health interventions in resource deficit settings.[19] In Research.com's Best Social Sciences and Humanities Scientists in China ranking 2022, she was ranked 55.[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 12 international online courses including "Climate Change and Health"[22] and "Research Methodology for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response"[23] developed by her team have also been launched.

Emily Chan is also co-chairperson of the World Health Organization Thematic Platform for Health Emergency & Disaster Risk Management Research Network (WHO H-EDRM Research Network), Co-chairperson of the World Health Organization COVID-19 Research Roadmap Social Science working group (2020–22), and member of the Asia Pacific Science Technology and Academia Advisory Group of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR APSTAAG),[24] World Meteorological Organization SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Task Team, Scientific Working Group (SWG) of World Health Organization Centre for Health Development (WHO Kobe Centre, WKC),[25] Alliance of International Science Organizations on Disaster Risk Reduction (ANSO-DRR) International Steering Committee, and 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

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[26] [27] [28] [29] and Bulletin of the World Health Organization.[30] 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,[31] the 2017 UGC Teaching Award[32] 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,[33] and nominee of the biennial United Nations Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction in 2019.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong – Professor Emily Ying-yang CHAN. www.sphpc.cuhk.edu.hk. 2016-06-21.
  2. Web site: 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. 2016-06-21.
  3. Web site: People. www.cgh.cuhk.edu.hk. 2016-06-21.
  4. Web site: Prof. Emily Chan – CCOUC – Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response. ccouc.org. 2016-06-21.
  5. Web site: Professor Emily Y.Y. Chan – Nuffield Department of Medicine. www.ndm.ox.ac.uk. 2016-06-21.
  6. Web site: Emily Y. Y. Chan. 2015-09-17. FXB Center for Health & Human Rights Harvard University. en-US. 2016-06-21.
  7. Web site: Hong Kong Academy of Medicine. www.hkam.org.hk. 2016-06-21.
  8. News: In India, Slight Rise in Temperatures Is Tied to Heat Wave Deaths. Ives. Mike. 2017-06-08. The New York Times. 2017-12-13. en-US. 0362-4331.
  9. News: Human frontiers: How much heat can the body and mind take?. 2017-09-22. Reuters. 2017-12-13.
  10. Web site: Living in the heat of the moment Data China Daily. www.chinadailyhk.com. 2018-01-15.
  11. Web site: RTHK Radio 3's main evening newscast "Newswrap" (18:00 – 19:00, 26 April). rthk.hk. 2016-06-27.
  12. Web site: Young Hongkongers lagging the old in adapting to green lifestyle. www.scmp.com. 2016-06-27. 2016-04-26.
  13. Web site: Older people better at carbon reduction, study shows. chinadailyasia.com. 2016-06-27.
  14. Web site: Hongkongers are ill prepared for aftermath of natural disaster. www.scmp.com. 2016-06-27. 2013-11-18.
  15. Web site: Hong Kong people not ready to deal with natural disasters, experts say. www.scmp.com. 2016-06-27. 2015-03-23.
  16. Web site: More lives saved with bottom-up approach to disaster relief. www.scmp.com. 2016-06-27. 2014-08-18.
  17. Web site: RTHK Radio 3's morning current affairs programme "Hong Kong Today" --Workshop on reducing disaster risks. rthk.hk. 2016-06-27.
  18. News: Health experts train local communities to prepare for disasters. Reuters. 2016-06-27. 2016-03-15.
  19. Web site: HK$40 kit bag that makes difference of life or death. www.scmp.com. 2016-06-27. 2014-04-03.
  20. Web site: World's Best Social Sciences and Humanities Scientists: H-Index Social Sciences and Humanities Science Ranking in China 2022 . 2023-05-11 . Research.com . en.
  21. Web site: ccouc. phpidccouc.conted.ox.ac.uk. 2016-06-21.
  22. Web site: ccouc. www.hkjcdpri.org.hk/elearning/climate-change-and-health. 2016-06-21.
  23. Web site: Online Course - Research Methodology for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response - CCOUC - Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response. ccouc.org. 2017-10-12.
  24. Web site: First Asian Science and Technology Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (ASTCDRR) – UNISDR. www.unisdr.org. 2016-06-21.
  25. Web site: WHO Kobe Centre (WKC) Scientific Working Group members. 2020-10-12. WHO Kobe. en.
  26. Chan . Emily YY . The untold stories of the Sichuan earthquake . The Lancet . 372 . 9636 . 2008 . 359–62 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61141-1 . 18675675. 10220372 .
  27. Chan . Emily Y Y . Liu . Sida . Hung . Kevin K C . Typhoon Haiyan and beyond . The Lancet . 382 . 9908 . 1873 . 2013 . 24275504 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62415-0 . 5495561 . free .
  28. Barnett-Vanes . Ashton . Hung . Kevin KC . Maruthappu . Mahiben . Shalhoub . Joseph . Chan . Emily YY . Improving health in humanitarian crises: from reactive to proactive . The Lancet . 382 . 9893 . 679 . 2013 . 23972802 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61768-7 . 205970465 . free .
  29. Chan . Emily Y Y . Wang . Zhe . Mark . Carman K M . Da Liu . Si . Industrial accidents in China: risk reduction and response . The Lancet . 386 . 10002 . 2015 . 1421–2 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00424-9 . 26466026. 7138044 .
  30. Web site: Hospital admissions as a function of temperature, other weather phenomena and pollution levels in an urban setting in China. https://web.archive.org/web/20140501234858/http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/91/8/12-113035/en/. dead. May 1, 2014. www.who.int. 2016-06-27.
  31. http://www.natgeomedia.com/column/explorer/52988{{full citation needed|date=June 2017}}
  32. Web site: Two Outstanding Scholars Awarded 2017 UGC Teaching Award CUHK Communications and Public Relations Office. www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk. en. 2017-10-12.
  33. Web site: 教育部关于批准2018年国家级教学成果奖获奖项目的决定 - 中华人民共和国教育部政府门户网站. www.moe.gov.cn. 2019-01-14.