Dr Julia Chan obtained her PhD in Behavioural Health & Psycho-oncology in 2026 from the School of Public Health of The University of Hong Kong. Her doctoral research investigated sleep disturbances and insomnia among cancer survivors post-treatment. She is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. Currently, she serves as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Research Manager for the Jockey Club End-of-Life Community Care Project: Unison (JCECC: Unison).

She has experience working with a diverse range of research methodologies, including longitudinal studies, qualitative research, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, randomised controlled trials, cost-benefit analyses of health interventions. Her research interests include end-of-life and palliative care, psychosocial adaptation to serious illness, medical-social collaboration, and the development and evaluation of evidence-based interventions to support psychological and physical symptom management across the illness trajectory.

1. Chan, J., Ng, D. W. L., Liao, Q., Fielding, R., Soong, I., Chan, K. K. L., Lee, C., Ng, A. W. Y., Sze, W. K., Chan, W. L., Lee, V. H. F., & Lam, W. W. T. (2023). Trajectories of sleep disturbance in cancer survivors during the first 2 years post-treatment. Sleep, 46(8), 1. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsad052
2. Chan, J., Ng, D. W. L., Fielding, R., & Lam, W. W. T. (2024). Comparing the experiences of cancer survivors living with sleep disturbances between differing levels of psychological distress: a qualitative study. BMC Psychiatry, 24(1), Article 869. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-024-06344-4
3. Ng, D. W. L., Ng, R., Guo, C., Chan, J., Fielding, R., Tang, J. W. C., Li, W. W. Y., Foo, C. C., Kwong, A., Ng, S. S.-M., Suen, D., Fung, S., Chun, O. K., Chan, K. K. L., Chang, A. T. Y., Butow, P., & Lam, W. W. T. (2026). ConquerFear-HK: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Metacognition-Based, Manualized Intervention for Fear of Cancer Recurrence among Chinese Cancer Survivors. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 95(2), 117–133. https://doi.org/10.1159/000547888
4. Chan, J., Ng, D. W. L., Fong, D. Y. T., Chan, M. C. H., Shi, Y., & Lam, W. W. T. (2026). Interventions for managing clinically relevant sleep disturbances or insomnia in cancer patients and survivors: an up-to-date systematic review and meta-analysis of self-reported sleep disturbance. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1811748. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1811748