Professor Chan Ying Yang, Emily
Assistant Dean
Public Health and Primary Care
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
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 Interest
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
