Eliza Yee Lai Cheung

Professor Eliza Cheung specializes in disaster mental health and psychological first aid for her clinical practice, field work, and research. She completed her professional training in clinical psychology and obtained her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Public Health at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Professor Cheung currently serves as a clinical psychologist at Hong Kong Red Cross, and is a master trainer and roster member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). She has thus far trained over 2,000 disaster first responders and trainers on psychological first aid and psychosocial support from all over the world, including those from the Auxiliary Medical Service, Civil Aviation Department, and Department of Health of the Hong Kong SAR government. In 2014 & 2015, Eliza served as an IFRC psychosocial delegate at Liberia during the Ebola Virus outbreak and at Nepal after the earthquake respectively. Over the years, she has also coordinated emergency mental health and psychosocial response and preparedness programmes in Hong Kong, Bhutan, Singapore and various provinces of the mainland China, including Sichuan, Yunnan, Hunan, Guangxi, Hainan, and Gansu. Professor Cheung also worked with the World Health Organization in the review, translation, and adaptation of some leading psychosocial support guidelines in emergency, including “Psychological first aid: Guide for field workers” and “Psychological first aid during Ebola virus disease outbreaks”.

Companies

• Adjunct Assistant Professor JC School of Public Health & Primary Care, CUHK (2021)
• Board Member Pause & Breathe (2021)
• Council Member Wu Zhi Qiao (Bridge to China) Charitable Foundation (2019)
• Technical Advisor IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support (2016)
• Chairperson Hong Kong Clinical Psychologists Association (2015)
• Clinical Psychologist cum Service In-charge Hong Kong Red Cross (2012)
• ERU Psychosocial delegate IFRC (2015 — 2015)
• ERU Psychosocial Delegate IFRC (2014 — 2014)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• MSSc in Clinical Psychology The Chinese University of Hong Kong