Prof. Emily Ying Yang Chan

Professor Emily Chan serves as Professor and Assistant Dean at Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She is Director of Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), Centre for Global Health (CGH), and Centre of Excellence of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), and Deputy Director of the CUHK Jockey Club Multi-Cancer Prevention Programme. Professor Chan is also Co-chairperson of WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency & Disaster Risk Management (H-EDRM) Research Network and WHO COVID-19 Research Roadmap Social Science working group, and member of Asia Pacific Science Technology and Academia Advisory Group (APSTAAG) of United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), World Meteorological Organization SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Task Team, Scientific Working Group (SWG) of WHO Centre for Health Development (WHO Kobe Centre, WKC), Alliance of International Science Organizations on Disaster Risk Reduction (ANSO-DRR) International Steering Committee, and Third China Committee for IRDR. She concurrently serves as Visiting Professor (Public Health Medicine) at Oxford University Nuffield Department of Medicine, Honorary Professor at Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, and Fellow at FXB Center, Harvard University. Professor Chan also had extensive experience as a frontline emergency relief practitioner in the mid-1990s, which spanned across 20 countries.