Chun-Yip Hon creates a lasting legacy
Chun-Yip Hon, BASc, MScA, PhD
Environmental Health ’96
Associate Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University
Dr. Chun-Yip Hon cherishes the “a-ha” moments with his students. Their faces light up when they understand the principles, practices and procedures he teaches that will help his students — future professionals in occupational and public health — keep workers and the public safe.
Chun is a 1996 graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) in environmental health, so he knows what it’s like to sit on the other side of the lab bench. Now, as graduate program director and an associate professor in TMU’s School of Occupational and Public Health, he wants to encourage and support learners further, and has made a bequest intention in his will to endow scholarships for the school’s graduate students.
A bequest intention is a planned gift that is directed in your will.
“I’m hoping the scholarship will be meaningful to recipients and help offset some of the tuition costs or any other costs associated with going to school,” said Chun, who hopes students will share his fascination for the problem-solving aspect of occupational and public health, and find fulfillment in its lessening the burden on our country’s strained medical services and resources. “You’re trying to prevent injury and illness in workers or in members of the public, and that will have a domino effect on our health-care system,” he said.
“It’s a pleasure for me to give back to the school and to the university that has provided a very rewarding career.”
Chun’s planned gift promises to have a generational impact. “That got me thinking about my own legacy and how I can help a program that has meant so much to me. It served as a foundation, springboarding me to a career in health and safety.”
Throughout his professional life, Chun has enjoyed the balance of field work with training workers and teaching students. Now he is thoughtfully providing for the future.
“I’ve taught at TMU for over 12 years now. It’s a pleasure for me to give back to the school and to the university that has provided a very rewarding career,” said Chun. “Anything that I can do to keep the occupational and public health program sustainable and moving forward, I’ll try my best.”
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