Dr. Derwin Chan is a health psychologist with diverse research interests in the areas of sport and exercise psychology, sports medicine, child health, and behavioural medicine. He is a Chartered Psychologist and a Fellow with the British Psychological Society, and a Chartered Scientist with the British Science Council. Dr. Chan has over 120 publications of peer-reviewed articles related to the psychology of health, sport and exercise, and behavioural medicine. His research primarily focuses on psychosocial, motivational, and social cognitive processes underpinning individuals’ behaviours (e.g., avoidance of unintentional doping, physical activity, healthy diets, safety, and disease prevention). Dr. Chan has been recognised as the leading expert who can provide scientific evaluations on the impact/ effectiveness of large-scale community health programmes. Despite the diversity of health contexts that his research has been applied, one line of his research about unintentional doping has received increasing amount of attention. Dr. Chan’s research has played a pivotal role in prompting the prevention of unintentional doping as one of the strategic research priorities and global education initiatives of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). He is a member of the WADA Expert Advisory Group of Social Science Research, and a founding member of WADA taskforce of unintentional doping. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Stress and Health, Advisory Editor of Social Science & Medicine, and editorial board member of six other scholarly journals.

• Psychology of sport, exercise, and health
• Behaviour change models and interventions
• Behavioural assessment and programme evaluation
• Mobile health

Children's health and well-being

Physical activity

Injury prevention

Editor-in-Chief of Stress and Health since 2021 till present.

Stress and Health is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that has published multidisciplinary research articles since 1985 on the relationship among stress, health, and well-being. The journal is indexed in various psychology and psychiatry disciplines in the Web of Science with an impact factor of 4.1 (Clarivate Analytics 2022).

Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) 

British Psychological Society (BPS), as one of the oldest professional bodies for psychology in the world, has promoted the research and practice of psychology for over 120 years, and governs the standards and registrations of psychologists in the UK. The fellowship is awarded to scholars for their research, teaching, publications or public service, or the efforts in organizing and developing the work of others.