Xin Hui Chan

CLINICAL THERAPEUTICS FOR EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Dr Xin Hui Chan is an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Infectious Diseases at the University of Oxford and an Honorary Specialty Registrar in Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine at Oxford University Hospitals. Her current research focuses on accelerating the development of clinical therapeutics for high-threat and emerging infectious diseases. She is part of Prof Sir Peter Horby’s group at the Pandemic Sciences Institute.

Xin Hui trained in medicine, infectious diseases, and tropical medicine in Oxford, London (LSHTM & University College London Hospitals), and Southeast Asia with further experience in North America (US National Institutes of Health), sub-Saharan Africa (MRC Unit The Gambia), and Southeastern Europe.

Her UK MRC-funded DPhil with Prof Sir Nick White at the Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) was a global evidence review of the cardiovascular safety of antimalarial medicines to optimise their development and deployment in collaboration with the WHO Global Malaria Programme. She was the WHO technical resource person and rapporteur of the WHO Evidence Review Group on the Cardiotoxicity of Antimalarial Medicines.