Welcome & Registration

Introducing course structure, assessment scheme and other ground rules of the course

• Professor Emily Ying-yang Chan Professor, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  

   

  Professor Chan is the Course Director of "Croucher Summer Course 2015 - Research Methodology for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response". She serves as Professor of JC School of Public Health and Primary Care and Centre Director of Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC) since 2014 and 2011 respectively.

  Prof Chan conducts research in evidence-based medical humanitarian crisis, disaster, climate change, injury, and violence epidemiology, while teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She has also been an Honorary Research Fellow (Emerging Infectious Diseases and Emergency Preparedness) at the Nuffield Department of Medicine in the University of Oxford since 2010 and a Fellow of the Harvard FXB Center since 2014. In this summer course, Prof Chan will review the public health approaches to medical and humanitarian disaster response.

Review of public health approaches to medical and humanitarian disaster response

• Professor Emily Ying-yang Chan Professor, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  

   

  Professor Chan is the Course Director of "Croucher Summer Course 2015 - Research Methodology for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response". She serves as Professor of JC School of Public Health and Primary Care and Centre Director of Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC) since 2014 and 2011 respectively.

  Prof Chan conducts research in evidence-based medical humanitarian crisis, disaster, climate change, injury, and violence epidemiology, while teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She has also been an Honorary Research Fellow (Emerging Infectious Diseases and Emergency Preparedness) at the Nuffield Department of Medicine in the University of Oxford since 2010 and a Fellow of the Harvard FXB Center since 2014. In this summer course, Prof Chan will review the public health approaches to medical and humanitarian disaster response.

Evidence for humanitarian health action in chronic emergencies (1)

• Dr Egbert Sondorp Honorary Lecturer in Conflict & Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  

  Dr. Egbert Sondorp is a Public Health Specialist, with specific expertise in health policy and planning, evaluation, health system research, and disease control. He is currently working with Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, as Senior Health Advisor with a focus on Health Systems and Universal Health Coverage. In addition, he also engages with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he is leading an academic programme on Conflict and Health, with a specific remit to forge links between academia and field practitioners. Dr. Sondorp has extensive field experience in many countries for various funding agencies, such as MSF (Médecins sans Frontières), World Bank, DFID, EC, etc. He has strong track record in range of programme evaluations, programme planning, health reform issues, district health care, programme management, disease control, and training.

  In this summer course, Dr. Sondorp will share the evidence for humanitarian health action in chronic emergencies and he will cover the research focus on conflict and fragile states.

   

   

   

Recap of Day 1

Evidence for humanitarian health action in chronic emergencies (2)

• Dr Egbert Sondorp Honorary Lecturer in Conflict & Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  

  Dr. Egbert Sondorp is a Public Health Specialist, with specific expertise in health policy and planning, evaluation, health system research, and disease control. He is currently working with Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, as Senior Health Advisor with a focus on Health Systems and Universal Health Coverage. In addition, he also engages with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he is leading an academic programme on Conflict and Health, with a specific remit to forge links between academia and field practitioners. Dr. Sondorp has extensive field experience in many countries for various funding agencies, such as MSF (Médecins sans Frontières), World Bank, DFID, EC, etc. He has strong track record in range of programme evaluations, programme planning, health reform issues, district health care, programme management, disease control, and training.

  In this summer course, Dr. Sondorp will share the evidence for humanitarian health action in chronic emergencies and he will cover the research focus on conflict and fragile states.

   

   

   

An overview of research and evaluations of the health aspects of disasters - goals, types and frameworks

• Professor Marvin Birnbaum Emeritus Professor, Medicine and Physiology, U Wisconsin Madison
  

   

  Prof. Birnbaum currently is the Chair of the Board of Directors of World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) and Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, Official Journal of the WADEM. Dr. Birnbaum is also Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Physiology at University of Wisconsin‑Madison.

  Prof. Birnbaum is the leader of disaster research. He is the co-author of the Health Disaster Management Guidelines for Evaluation and Research in the Utstein Style. In this summer course, Prof Birnbaum will provide an overview different types and frameworks of research and evaluations of the health aspects of disasters.
  

Recap of Day 2

Designing qualitative research for disaster settings: using conducting mental health research as an example

Structuring epidemiological disaster health research

• Professor Marvin Birnbaum Emeritus Professor, Medicine and Physiology, U Wisconsin Madison
  

   

  Prof. Birnbaum currently is the Chair of the Board of Directors of World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) and Emeritus Editor-in-Chief of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, Official Journal of the WADEM. Dr. Birnbaum is also Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Physiology at University of Wisconsin‑Madison.

  Prof. Birnbaum is the leader of disaster research. He is the co-author of the Health Disaster Management Guidelines for Evaluation and Research in the Utstein Style. In this summer course, Prof Birnbaum will provide an overview different types and frameworks of research and evaluations of the health aspects of disasters.
  

Recap of Day 3

Policy research on climate change and environmental health (1)

• Professor Virginia Murray Consultant in Global Disaster Risk Reduction, Public Health England
  

  Professor Virginia Murray was appointed as Consultant in Global Disaster Risk Reduction for Public Health England in April 2014. This appointment is to take forward her work as vice-chair of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) Scientific and Technical Advisory Group and as one of the members of the UNISDR Advisory Group for the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Prior to this she was appointed as Head of Extreme Events and Health Protection at Public Health England in January 2011. With the Extreme Events team, she helped to develop evidence-based information and advice on flooding, heat, cold, volcanic ash, and other extreme weather and natural hazards events. She has extensive experience in chemical incident response and has provided training courses and materials and has published widely on environmental toxicology. Through her various appointments as Visiting Professor in Health Protection, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College and King’s College, London (2004) and Honorary Professor at University College London (2013), Professor Murray plays a significant academic role in producing literature on the intersection of health and disasters. She also continues to contribute to many national and international meetings on disaster risk reduction.

Trends and updates of research studies in disaster and emergency medicine and publication of disaster journals: from the editor's point of view

• Professor Colin A. Graham Professor of Emergency Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  

  Prof Graham is Professor of Emergency Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Honorary Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital; Hong Kong and Editor-in-Chief, European Journal of Emergency Medicine.

  Prof. Graham undertook higher specialist training in emergency medicine in Scotland. He moved to Hong Kong in 2004 and was appointed as the Professor in the Accident and Emergency Medicine Academic Unit at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2007. He practices clinical emergency medicine at the Prince of Wales Hospital. He has broad research interests within emergency medicine and has published widely. Prof. Graham is an active clinical teacher and he is one of the authors of the Oxford Handbook of Emergency Medicine, a popular book for emergency department staff. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Emergency Medicine since 2009 and serves on the Executive Committee and Council of the European Society for Emergency Medicine.

Recap of Day 4

Policy research on climate change and environmental health (2)

• Professor Virginia Murray Consultant in Global Disaster Risk Reduction, Public Health England
  

  Professor Virginia Murray was appointed as Consultant in Global Disaster Risk Reduction for Public Health England in April 2014. This appointment is to take forward her work as vice-chair of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) Scientific and Technical Advisory Group and as one of the members of the UNISDR Advisory Group for the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Prior to this she was appointed as Head of Extreme Events and Health Protection at Public Health England in January 2011. With the Extreme Events team, she helped to develop evidence-based information and advice on flooding, heat, cold, volcanic ash, and other extreme weather and natural hazards events. She has extensive experience in chemical incident response and has provided training courses and materials and has published widely on environmental toxicology. Through her various appointments as Visiting Professor in Health Protection, MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College and King’s College, London (2004) and Honorary Professor at University College London (2013), Professor Murray plays a significant academic role in producing literature on the intersection of health and disasters. She also continues to contribute to many national and international meetings on disaster risk reduction.

Student presentation

Closure remarks and presentation of Certificate of Attendance

• Professor Emily Ying-yang Chan Professor, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  

   

  Professor Chan is the Course Director of "Croucher Summer Course 2015 - Research Methodology for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response". She serves as Professor of JC School of Public Health and Primary Care and Centre Director of Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC) since 2014 and 2011 respectively.

  Prof Chan conducts research in evidence-based medical humanitarian crisis, disaster, climate change, injury, and violence epidemiology, while teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She has also been an Honorary Research Fellow (Emerging Infectious Diseases and Emergency Preparedness) at the Nuffield Department of Medicine in the University of Oxford since 2010 and a Fellow of the Harvard FXB Center since 2014. In this summer course, Prof Chan will review the public health approaches to medical and humanitarian disaster response.