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| Professor Sally Chan |
Professor Sally Wai-Chi CHAN
Sally Chan is the Professor and former head of the Alice Lee
Centre for Nursing Studies, National University of Singapore. She is the Visiting Professor at University of Hull and Sun Yatsen University and Xiamen
University in China. Sally did her basic
nursing training and nursing education diploma in Hong Kong, and read her
Bachelor Degree in Australia and her Master Degree and Doctor of Philosophy in
the United Kingdom.
Sally has been a leader in
developing nursing education in Hong Kong, Singapore and China. She has been a
leading exponent of the need for graduate education for nurses in the region. As
a global nurse researcher and educator, Sally pioneered development of mental
health nursing research in Asia. Supported by 58 funded studies, and more than
300 publications in international healthcare journals and international
presentations, Sally have developed and sustained international
inter-institutional partnerships. Sally’s research programme of mental health
focuses on family caregiving, depression, community mental health, and quality
of life. Sally serves on editorial board and reviewer panel for more than
20 international refereed journals. She is
the editor in chief of the Journal of Nursing Interventions and Singapore
Nursing Journal.
Sally has been appointed by the World
Health Organization (WHO) to the Primary Care Consultation group for Revision
of ICD-10 Mental and Behavioral Disorder. She is the President of Sigma Theta Tau
International Singapore Upsilon Eta Chapter; Chair, East Asia Forum of Nursing
Scholars; Co-chair, Nursing Professional Discipline Forum of the International
Psychogeriatric Association. Her leadership is also evident in her
appointment to the Expert Group on Mental Health Services by the Hong Kong Government
Food and Health Bureau to
formulate the blueprint to reform mental health services; and member of the
National Task Force of Ministry of Health, Singapore.
Sally
has been awarded the ‘International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame 2013’ by
Sigma Theta Tau International Honors Society of Nursing in recognition of her significant and sustained
contribution to research which improved the nursing profession and the people
it serves. She has been awarded the ‘Teacher of the
Year’ in 1998, 2002, 2003,
2004, 2006, and the ‘Master Teacher’ in 2007 by Faculty
of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Sally will be inducted in Washington DC in October as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
Sally contributed to the Faculty Research & Scholarship seminar series; the title of her presentation was:
Mental
Health of Child-Bearing Women - Experience Sharing
Abstract
Research activity in nursing field is growing expecially
in the Asian region. There is an expanding role of nursing in the development
of evdience based health care practice and policy. Traditionally, nurses carried out small
local projects rather than a persistent ongoing research programme that ends up in cumulative knowledge providing
evidence for practice. In this presentation, Sally will present her research
programme on mental health of child-bearing women. She will illustrate how she
used a research development framework in building this research programme and
present results of some studies in the programme. She will also discuss how she
collaborated with colleagues from different disciplines and institutions in
this research programme.
