Dr Sarah Borwein is a Canadian physician who has lived and worked in Hong Kong and Beijing for more than 23 years. She worked as a staff physician at the Beijing United Family Hospital where she was Director of Infection Control during the SARS outbreak in 2003. After returning to Hong Kong, she became a founding partner in 2005 of what is now a large multi-disciplinary medical group, where she practiced until 2021.   Although she practices across the full family medicine spectrum, her special interests include women’s health, preventive medicine, travel & tropical medicine, infectious diseases and mental health. In addition to patient care, she has been involved with infectious disease surveillance both globally and locally through GeoSentinel (a worldwide communication and data collection network for the surveillance of travel-related morbidity), the Travax International Partner program, and the Hong Kong Department of Health. She is a past president of the Asia Pacific Travel Health Society. Having first-hand experience in the SARS epidemic in Beijing in 2003, and the COVID-19 epidemic in Hong Kong in 2020-2021, Sarah has spoken, advised, and written extensively about the pandemic. She looks after a significant refugee population, is medical advisor to Outward Bound HK and to the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong. Her community involvements include sitting on the Executive Committees of the United Jewish Congregation of Hong Kong and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. She is a council member of the Licentiate Medical Society of Hong Kong, an organisation that represents doctors trained outside of Hong Kong.  Sarah graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine in 1999 and then obtained Fellowship in Family Medicine from the College of Family Physicians of Canada, as well as an MSc in Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She successfully recertified as a Licentiate of the Medical Council of Hong Kong in 2005. She is married and has three grown children; she enjoys hiking, Pilates and yoga and used to love to travel.