World Health Leaders Meet to Discuss Disaster Risk Reduction in Global Platform The biennial Fourth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction was held in Geneva over 21-23 May 2013. Chaired… Read More
On the occasion of CCOUC’s 2nd anniversary, Professor Emily Chan, director of CCOUC, was invited to deliver a keynote public lecture on “Evidence-based health & medical intervention: How do we do our work… Read More
The Croucher Summer Course is a five-day residential summer course, which sets out to educate and inspire a small group of very promising postgraduate students and early career researchers from Hong Kong and the… Read More
The World Health Organization (WHO) drafted a Health Emergency Risk Management Framework (HERMF) that illustrates guiding principles of emergency risk management for its member states. CCOUC director, Prof. Emily Chan, was invited to… Read More
The 18th World Congress on Disaster & Emergency Medicine was held in Manchester, United Kingdom from 28-31 May. It is the official congress of the World Association of Disaster & Emergency Medicine and… Read More
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of CUHK, CCOUC together with volunteers from the Wu Zhi Qiao Charitable Foundation from CUHK, Peking University, Stanford University, Oxford University and Xi’an Jiaotong University returned to Dangzheng… Read More
CCOUC members participated and presented in the International Disaster Medicine Forum on Earthquake Medical Rescue in Sichuan, 11-13 May 2013. The forum was organized by the Chinese Society of Disaster Medicine to commemorate… Read More
As part of the CUHK Golden Jubilee Wu Zhi Qiao bridge-building activity, CCOUC organized a series of public health activities for the local community in Dangzheng village, Gansu, between 28 April and 8 May 2013. Health… Read More
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