Professor CHAN Ying Yang, Emily
Assistant Dean (External Affairs)
Professor, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care
CUHK Employment
- Assistant Dean (External Affairs), Faculty of Medicine
- Professor and Associate Director (External Affairs and Collaboration), The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care
Head, Division of Global Health and Humanitarian Medicine
Professor (by Courtesy), Accident and Emergency Unit
Director, Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response
Director, CUHK Centre for Global Health
Deputy Director, CUHK Jockey Club Multi-Cancer Prevention Programme
Fellow, Morningside College
Expertise
- Public Health
- Global Health
- Disaster and Humanitarian Medicine (Health-EDRM)
- Climate Change and Planetary Health
- Health Needs, Policy and Programme Evaluation
Education & Qualifications
MBBS (HK), BSc in Biomedical Engineering (Johns Hopkins), SM PIH (Harvard), MD (CUHK), DFM (HKCFP), FFPH, FHKAM (Community Medicine), FHKCCM
Research Interests
- Climate change and planetary health
- Health and environmental co-benefits
- Disaster and humanitarian medicine
- Global and planetary health
- Violence and injury epidemiology
- Research methodology
- Healthy settings
- Health needs and programme impact evaluation
- Evidence-based medical and public health interventions in resource deficit settings
Additional Information
Award & Honour
- Visiting Professor of Public Health Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University
- Fellow, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (FXB Center), Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University
- Second Prize, National Teaching Achievement Award (Higher Education), Ministry of Education, China, 2018
- UGC Teaching Award, University Grants Committee of Hong Kong, 2017
- University Education Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2017
- National Geographic Chinese Explorer Award, National Geographic Magazine, 2016
- Leader of the Year (Community/Public Affairs/Environment & Conservation), 2015
- Nobuo Maeda International Research Award, American Public Health Association, 2007
- Hong Kong Humanity Award, 2007
- World Medical Association’s Caring Physicians of the World Award, 2005
- Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World Award, 2005
- Hong Kong Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award, 2004
Professional Service
- Co-chairperson, World Health Organization Thematic Platform for Health Emergency & Disaster Risk Management Research Network (WHO H-EDRM Research Network)
Member, Asia Science Technology and Academia Advisory Group of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR ASTAAG)
Member, Scientific Working Group, World Health Organization Centre for Health Development (WHO Kobe Centre, WKC)
- Director, International Centre of Excellence in Health and Community Resilience (ICoE-CCOUC) of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR, a joint research programme of International Science Council (ISC) and United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
- Member, Third China Committee for Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR China)
- Member, Strategic Advisory Committee, Hong Kong Observatory
Member, Council of The Open University of Hong Kong
Member, Corruption Prevention Advisory Committee of the Independent Commission Against Corruption
Council Member, Hong Kong Breast Cancer Foundation
Academic Engagement in CUHK
- Mentor, MBChB Programme Global Physician-Leadership Stream (GPS)
- Course Coordinator (2013-2022), Public Health Training Support Services for Department of Health, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Selected Publications
- Chan EYY. Climate Change and Urban Health. London: Routledge; 2019. 288 p.
- Chan EYY, Building bottom-up health and disaster risk reduction programmes. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2018. 358 p.
- Chan EYY, Public health humanitarian responses to natural disasters. London: Routledge; 2017. 293 p.
- Chan EYY, Man AYT, Lam HCY. Scientific evidence on natural disasters and health emergency and disaster risk management in Asian rural-based area. Br Med Bull. 2019;ldz002:1-15. doi:10.1093/bmb/ldz002
- Chan EYY, Huang Z, Lam HCY, Wong CKP, Zou Q. Health vulnerability index for disaster risk reduction: application in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) region. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019;16(3):380. doi:10.3390/ijerph16030380
- Chan EYY, Huang Z, Hung KKC, Chan GKW, Lam HCY, Lo ESK, Yeung MPS. Health Emergency Disaster Risk Management of public transport systems: a population-based study after the 2017 subway fire in Hong Kong, China. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019;16(2):228. doi:10.3390/ijerph16020228
- Chan EYY, Ho JYE, Huang Z, Kim JK, Lam HCY, Chung PPW, Carol KPW, Liu S, Chow S. Long-Term and Immediate Impacts of Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM) Education Interventions in a Rural Chinese Earthquake-Prone Transitional Village. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. 2018;9(3):319-330.
- Chan EYY, Chiu CP, Chan GKW. Medical and health risks associated with communicable diseases of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh 2017. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2018;68:39-43.
- Chan EYY, Murray V. What are the health research needs for the Sendai Framework? The Lancet. 2017; 390(10106):e35 -e36. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31670-7.
- Chan EY, Goggins WB, Yue JSK, Lee P. (2013). Hospital admissions as a function of temperature, weather phenomena and pollution levels in an urban setting in China. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. August 2013