CHAN Ying Yang, Emily

Associate Director
Public Health and Primary Care
Chinese University of Hong Kong
China

Professor Healthcare
Biography

Visiting Professor of Public Health Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University (since 2016) Visiting Scholar, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (FXB Center), Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University (since 2014) Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University (since 2016) Member of the Asia Science Technology and Academia Advisory Group of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR ASTAAG) (since 2016) Nobuo Maeda International Research Award (2007) of American Public Health Association Convenor, Climate Change and Health Study Group, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, CUHK (since 2007) Teachers of the Year Awards (2010, 2011, 2013), Faculty of Medicine, CUHK Leader of the Year 2015 (Community/Public Affairs/Environment & Conservation) Vice-Chair of OXFAM - Hong Kong (since 2014) 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)

Research Intrest

Climate change and 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

List of Publications
Chan, E. Y. Y., Hung, K. K. C., & Cai, Y. (2011). An epidemiology study of technical disasters in China: 1979-2005. European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 18(4), 234–237.
Chan, E. Y. Y., Goggins, W. B., Kim, J. J., & Griffiths, S. M. (2012). A study of intracity variation of temperature-related mortality and socioeconomic status among the Chinese population in Hong Kong. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 66(4), 322–327.
Chan, E. Y. Y., Liu, S., & Hung, K. K. C. (2013). Typhoon Haiyan and beyond [Internet]. The Lancet, 382(9908), 1873. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62415-0
Chan, E. Y. Y., Goggins, W. B., Yue, S. K., & Lee, P. Y. (2013). Hospital admissions as a function of temperature, other weather phenomena and pollution levels in an urban setting in China. Bulletin of World Health Organization, 91(8), 576–584. doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.113035
Chan, E. Y. Y. (2013). Bottom-up disaster resilience. Nature Geoscience, 6(5), 327-328. doi:10.1038/ngeo1815
Chan, E. Y. Y., Kim, J. H., Lin, C. L. Y., Cheung, E. Y. L., & Lee, P. Y. (2014). Is previous disaster experience a good predictor for disaster preparedness in extreme poverty households in remote Muslim minority based community in China? Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 16, 466–472. doi:10.1007/s10903-012-9761-9
Chan, E. Y. Y., Wang, Z., Mark, C. K. M., & Liu, S. D. (2015). Industrial accidents in China: Risk reduction and response [Internet]. The Lancet, 386(10002), 1421-1422. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00424-9
Chan, E. Y. Y., Cheng, C. K. Y., Tam, G., Huang, Z., & Lee, P. (2015). Willingness of future A/H7N9 influenza vaccine uptake: A cross-sectional study of Hong Kong community [Internet]. Vaccine. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X15010063
Chan, E. Y. Y., Cheng, C. K. Y., Tam, G., Huang, Z., & Lee, P. (2015). Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Hong Kong population towards human A/H7N9 influenza pandemic preparedness, China, 2014. BMC Public Health, 15, 943. doi:10.1186/s12889-015-2245-9
Chan, E. Y., Yue, J., Lee, P., & Wang, S. S. (2016). Socio-demographic predictors for urban community disaster health risk perception and household based preparedness in a Chinese urban city. PLOS Currents Disasters. Advance online publication. doi:10.1371/currents.dis.287fb7fee6f9f4521af441a236c2d519.