Dr Carina Chan joined Monash University in June 2008 as Lecturer in Psychology. She holds a BSc. with a double major in Psychology and Statistics; a MSc. with First Class Honours in Health Psychology; and a Ph.D in Psychology from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.  Her doctoral research was funded with a Bright Future Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship and, subsequently, the University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarship. Dr Chan has been teaching at the University of Auckland since 2001 and has worked as a lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology and as an honorary research fellow at the University of Auckland upon completion of her doctoral studies. 

Dr. Chan has received several academic prizes and awards. She won the overall runner-up in the University of Auckland Exposure’ 05 (Postgraduate research exposition) Poster Competition and received an Early Career Award from the International Society of Behavioral Medicine in 2006. Dr Chan was also acknowledged in the Dean of Graduate Studies’ List for her doctoral research.

Dr. Chan’s research interests fall primary within the domain of health psychology, with a strong focus in health promotion and disease management. She has conducted research in motivation, the self-regulation of health behaviors, psychosocial interventions, perfectionism, acculturation and eating disorders. She has published in peer-reviewed health psychology and social personality psychology journals. She is now involved in the planning and implementation of several national and international projects conducted with other Monash campuses. Dr Chan is also actively serving in various professional organizations in behavioural medicine. She is an executive committee member of the Australasian Society for Behavioural Health and Medicine and a coordinator of the Early Career Network in the International Society of Behavioral Medicine.