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Professor Emily Ying Yang CHAN (陳英凝教授)
B.S. (Johns Hopkins), SM PIH (Harvard), MBBS (HK), DFM (HKCFP)
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care
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| Biography |
Professor Chan qualified both as a biomedical engineer and a physician and had undergone academic training in Johns Hopkins University, Harvard School of Public Health and Primary Care and Hong Kong University. She had completed a 3 year research fellowship (2003-2006) at the Program on Human Security at Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health and Primary Care and currently undergoing her doctorate work at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine involves developing assessment methodology for chronic medical needs of older people post-emergency. Prof Chan started her international public health career in mid-1990s as a frontline emergency relief practitioner. From 2001-2005 she was the president of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)-Hong Kong, the Nobel peace prize winning medical humanitarian organization that provided emergency medical relief to victims of wars, epidemics and natural disasters. Regarding research and project management, Professor Chan has extensive experiences in management and coordination of large scale data collecting field based research projects. Specifically, she had conducted various field based general population health status and health needs assessment survey related projects in difficult settings post natural disaster and conflicts. Each of these projects involved devising sampling methodology for population size of more than 50,000 people and the diverse settings included countries such as Zimbabwe, Egypt, China, Kosovo, Timor, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia, Mindanao (Philippines), Brazil and most recently, Kashmir (Pakistan). Due to the setting and working context, most of her field and research work focus encompass various population subgroups, health inequalities as well as injury/violence focus.
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| Teaching Modules |
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Undergraduate level:
- MB ChB Department of Community and Family Medicine modular teaching
- Undergraduate Public Health Minor Teaching
Graduate level:
- MPH program
Health Improvement Division Coordinator:-
PBH 7000 Foundation of Public Health
PBH7903 Global Health (formerly known as International Health)
PBH7006 Sociomedical (Behavioral) Sciences
PBH7007 Methodology and Approaches in Qualitative Studies and Field Work
PBH7907 Child Public Health
PBH7908 Maternal Public Health (New)
PBH7910 Health for Special Population (New)
PBH7905 Field Practicum
MSc General Education
- Public Health Module
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| Research interests |
- Health impact of Injury and Disaster (Heat wave/Natural disaster eg. Earthquakes, Tsunami, floods and hurricanes)
- Social determinants of health for special population groups(Migrants, children, women, disabilities)
- Health assessment methodologies (Need/impact assessments)
- Global Health issues
Professor Chan research work uses multidisciplinary methods from public health, clinical medicine, disaster science, health economics and management sciences. |
| Selected Publications 2007-2008 |
| Human Security: Public Health response in Natural Disaster/Conflicts/Emergencies |
| Chan E Y.Y., Griffiths, S.M, & Chan C.W. The public health risk of melamine in milk products. Lancet Vol 372. 1444-1445. No. 9648 October 25th 2008. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673608616049/fulltext |
| Chan E. Y.Y., The untold stories of Sichuan Earthquake, Lancet Vol 372. 359-362 No. 9636, 2 August 2008 http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673608611411/fulltext |
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Chan E. Y.Y., Doctors in natural disaster relief setting. The Hong Kong Practitioners. 152-153 Volume 30 No 3 September, 2008 http://www.hkcfp.org.hk/article/2008/09/page152_153commentary.html
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| Chan E.Y.Y., Public Health and Medical Needs Post disaster: A case study of Sichuan Earthquake. United College . Chinese University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong. November 21st, 2008 |
| Chan E.Y.Y., Gao, Y., Griffiths, S. Earthquakes in China. Presented at 2008 APAPCH Conference Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 7-9 November, 2008 |
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Chan, E. Y. & Sondorp E. Natural disaster medical intervention: Missed opportunity to deal with chronic medical needs? An analytical framework. 45-51 Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health Special Issue No. 19. October 2007
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| Chan, E.Y.Y., Griffiths,S., Health needs of older people in rural area post 2005 Kashmir Earthquake. Presented as 2007 the Noebu Maeda International Research Award winning paper at 2007 APHA conference in Washington DC, USA |
| Chan, E.Y.Y., & Griffiths S., Characteristic and Health Status of Post earthquake Survivors in spontaneous IDP camps post Kashmir Pakistan in 2005. Presented at APACPH Conference in Tokyo, Japan. November 2007. |
| Chan E. Y.Y., & Griffiths S., Health needs of Older people post 2005 Pakistan Kashmir Earthquake. Presented at APAPCH Conference in Bangkok, Thailand. November 2006 |
| Chan, E.Y. Evidence-Based public health practices: Challenges for health needs assessments in disasters. Hong Kong Med J 2006: 12: 324-6. http://www.hkmj.org/article_pdfs/hkm0608p324.pdf |
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Chan, Y. Y. “SARS Epidemics: Disaster Management of Hong Kong”. Mingpao Newspaper. (24 April 2003) (In Chinese)
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Chan E. Medecins Sans Frontieres experience in the provision of health care in complex setting. Hong Kong Med J 2003; 9:67 http://www.hkmj.org/article_pdfs/hkm0302p67.pdf
Climate Change and Health
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| Chan, E.Y.Y., Goggins, W.B., Kim, J.J, Griffiths, S., A Case-crossover study of temperature and mortality in subtropical urban setting. Presented at 2008 APAPCH Conference Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 7-9 November, 2008. |
| Chan E.Y.Y., Griffiths,S. & Goggins, W.B. The role of doctors and health workers in response to climate change. BMJ 2008;336 (26 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.39469.569815.47 |
| Tian L, Bi,Y, Ho, S., Liu, W, Liang,S. Goggins, W.B. Chan, E Y.Y., Zhou, S., and Sung, J. Effects of weather factors on malaria transmission: a time-series analysis in the rain forest area of Mengla County, Southwest China. Malaria Journal 2008, 7:110. http://www.malariajournal.com/content/7/1/110 |
| Chan, E.Y.Y., Goggins, W.B., Kim, J.J, Griffiths, S., Climate Change and health: Preliminary Evidence of the impact of socioeconomic factors on temperature related mortality in Hong Kong. Presented and awarded as the Best Poster Presentation at the 1st SPH Annual research day. 23 February 2008 |
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| Child Public Health |
| Chan E.Y.Y., Kim JH, LSK Law, Suen YP,CH Chiu & Griffiths S. The association between poverty and childhood injury in urban China. Presented at 2nd China National Conference of childhood injury prevention, Shenzhen, China. November 19th 2008. |
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Chan E.Y.Y., Kim JH, LSK Law, Suen YP, CH Chiu, Griffiths S Delphi Process to develop child health indicators in Hong Kong. Presented at 2008 APAPCH Conference Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 7-9 November, 2008.
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| Chan E. Y. Y., Griffiths, Sian., Gao, Y., Chan, C W & Fok, TF Addressing disparities in children’s health in China Archives of Disease in Childhood 2008;93:346-352; doi:10.1136/adc.2007.130146 |
| Gao, G, Griffiths, S & Chan, E Y.Y., Community-based interventions to reduce overweight and obesity in China: a systematic review of the Chinese and English literature. Journal of Public Health pp. 1–13, November 2007. doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdm057 |
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| Global Health Related/Migration/Urbanization |
| Chan E YY, Kim JH, Ng, Q, Griffiths & Lau JTF. A descriptive study of nonfatal unintentional home-based injury in urban settings: evidence from Hong Kong. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health 39-48 Volume 20. Supplement, October 2008 |
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Chan, E. Y.Y, Goggins, W.B., & Griffiths, S. Health disparities post Hong Kong Reunification: The case of birth weight in Hong Kong from 1998-2006. (Presented at SPH conference on March 2008)
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| Chan E.Y.Y, Kim JH, Griffiths S, Suen YP, LSK Law, CH Chiu, KY Wong Delphi Process to develop child health indicators in Hong Kong (Accepted and presented at to APAPCH Conference November 2008) |
| Chan, Emily. “The Feeding Program of Hliangthayer Township, Myanmar”. Asian Medical News. (May 2002) |
| Chan, Emily. “The Forgotten War at Mindanao: What are the Problems Faced by the Relief Response Team?” Asian Medical News. (October 2001) |
| Chan, Y. Y. “Let Military Does Its Work and Humanitarian Workers Do Theirs” (in Chinese). Mingpao Newspaper. (20 October 2001) (In Chinese) |
| Chan, Y. Y. “Good Intentions are not Good Enough? Rethink About What Effective Aid in a Disaster/Conflict Zone Means” Mingpao Newspaper. (18 October 2001) (In Chinese) |
Chan, Y. Y. “The Innocent Citizens of Afghanistan”. Hong Kong Economic Journal. (17 September 2001)
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| Book |
| Lewis,G., Sherringham, J., Kalim, K., & Crayford, T.J.B Mastering Public Health: A postgraduate guide to examination and revalidation. The Royal Society of Medicine Press Limited. United Kingdom (as International Editorial Panel) |
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Chan EYY. Sans Frontieres Under the Sun. Hong Kong Economic Press. July 2005 (In Chinese)
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