Emily Chan: inspiring a mosaic career in public health students

When I spoke to Emily Chan, she had just returned from a work trip to Timor-Leste as Chief Executive Officer of the GX Foundation, a Chinese non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Hong Kong that provides medical humanitarian assistance in Belt and Road Initiative countries. Alongside her NGO r...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2024-10, Vol.404 (10460), p.1294-1294
Main Author: Samarasekera, Udani
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Careers
Children
Climate change
Dengue fever
Disasters
Epidemiology
Extracurricular activities
Global health
Humanitarianism
Medicine
Minority & ethnic groups
NGOs
Nongovernmental organizations
Primary care
Public health
Students
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Summary:When I spoke to Emily Chan, she had just returned from a work trip to Timor-Leste as Chief Executive Officer of the GX Foundation, a Chinese non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Hong Kong that provides medical humanitarian assistance in Belt and Road Initiative countries. Alongside her NGO role, she wears many other hats, including Professor (Clinical) at the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), founding and current Director of the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), Director of the CUHK Centre for Global Health, and Assistant Dean (External Affairs) for the Faculty of Medicine at CUHK. Chan's ability to have a wide portfolio stems from a childhood full of extracurricular activities including music and dance, she believes. “Since I was very young, I have always had many activities.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(24)02142-1