Professor May Pui-shan Yeung

Biography

rofessor May PS Yeung is a medical doctor specialises in public health medicine. She obtained her Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,  and fellowships of the UK Faculty of Public Health and Hong Kong College of Community Medicine. Before joining the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) School of Public Health and Primary Care, she worked in the Department of Health in Hong Kong on emergency response and planning, infectious disease control, vaccination programming and maternal & child care service. Her interest is on health systems, responses to emergency and disasters, medical humanitarian assistance and cancer screening. She joined various public health volunteer services including the Ebola mission in Liberia, Community Health & Hygiene Education Program in China Qinghai Yushu and train-the trainer programme in Philippines Manila slum area. She was an Honorary Medical Officer in the Hospital Authority during Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Hong Kong in 2003.

Research Interest

Disaster and Emergency Response Health System and Policy Research and Practice Cancer screening