THE NOSSAL INSTITUTE
   FOR GLOBAL HEALTH


Dr Kit Yee Chan




Dr Kit ChanNossal Institute for Global Health
University of Melbourne
Tel:    +61 3 8344 2626
Skype: kchan6
Email: kchan16@gmail.com
Biography
Dr Kit Yee Chan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Nossal Institute for Global Health and a Visiting Scholar at Peking University Health Sciences Center in China. She is currently funded by the Australia-China Exchange Fellowship of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia. She has spent much of the past three years in mainland China.  Her research areas include the burden of disease in China, with a special focus on child health and selected non-communiable diseases. She is part of the WHO’s Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG) and has worked with WHO endorsed Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) on the development and implementation of a methodology (the ‘CHNRI methdology’) for setting health research priorities to improve child health and the health of people with disabilities. In 2010, she co-founded a collaborative network – The CHI (China Health Information) Consortium, with researchers from Chinese, UK and US Universities, the WHO and UNICEF – to coordinate systematic reviews of epidemiological information from China.

Prior to joining the University of Melbourne and Peking University, Kit coordinated a Ford Foundation funded six-country project on institutional forms of HIV-related discrimination in the Asia-Pacific.  She has a PhD in Public Health, co-authored approximately 30 peer-reviewed publications, and is currently serving as an editor for the Journal of Global Health for the Australia and Western Pacific region.  See full research profile.

Selected publications:

Lawn JE, Bahl R, Bergstrom S, Bhutta ZA, Darmstadt GL, Ellis M, English M, Kurinczuk J, Lee ACC, Marialdi M, Mohamed M, Osrin D, Pattinson R, Paul V, Ramji S, Saugstad O, Sibley L, Singhal N, Wall SN, Woods D, Wyatt J, Chan KY*, Rudan I*. Setting Research Priorities to Reduce One Million Deaths from “Birth Asphyxia” by 2015. PLoS Medicine. 2011; 8(1): e1000389. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000389.

Jian WY, Chan KY, Reidpath DD, Ling X. China’s Rural-Urban Care Gap Shrank For Chronic Disease Patients, But Inequities Persist. Health Affairs. 2010; 29:2189-2196; doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2009.0989

Rudan I*, Chan KY*, Zhang JSF, Theodoratou E, Feng XL, Salomon J, Lawn JE, Cousens S, Black RE, Guo Y, Campbell H on behalf of WHO/UNICEF’s Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG). Causes of deaths in children younger than five years in China in 2008. The Lancet. 2010; 375:1083–89. (*joint-first authors)

Tomlinson M, Swartz L, Officer A, Chan KY, Rudan I, Saxena S. Setting priorities for research on the health of persons with disabilities: an expert opinion exercise. The Lancet. 2009; 374:1857-1861.

Chan KY. ‘Othering’ tactics and treatments of patients with HIV/AIDS: A study of Thai nurses’ construct of professional ethics.  Critical Public Health. 2009; 19(2):181-191.

Fontaine O, Kosek M, Bhatnagar S, Boschi-Pinto C, Chan KY, Duggan C, Martinez H, Ribeiro H, Rollins NC, Salam MA, Shantosham M, Snyder JK, Tsai A, Vargas B, Rudan, I (2009). Setting Research Priorities to reduce Global Mortality from Childhood Diarrhoea by 2015. PLoS Medicine. 6(3): e1000041 doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000041

Chan KY, Yang Y, Zhang KL, Reidapth DD. Disentangling the stigma of HIV/AIDS from the stigmas of drugs use, commercial sex and commercial blood donation – a factorial survey.  BMC Public Health. 2007; 7:280doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-280.

Reidpath DD, Chan KY. HIV, stigma, and rates of infection: A rumour without Evidence. PLoS Medicine. 2006; 3(10):e435 doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030435

Chan KY, Reidpath DD.  Methodological considerations in the measurement of institutional and structural forms of HIV discrimination. AIDS Care. 2005; 17(Suppl 2):205-213.

Reidpath DD, Chan KY. A method for the quantitative analysis of the layering of HIV-related stigma. AIDS Care, 2005;17(4):425-432. [JIF:1.593]

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