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Job opportunity: Research Assistant

Posted 01/09/2022

Please join us in our endeavour to promote to research, training and community knowledge transfer in the area of disaster and medical humanitarian response in Greater China and the Asia-Pacific ...

CCOUC & CGH Health-EDRM Lunchtime Seminar Series 2022: Ukraine and Self Care for Humanitarian Workers in War Time: Mental Health in Complex Emergency

CCOUC & CGH Health-EDRM Lunchtime Seminar Series 2022: Ukraine and Self Care for Humanitarian Workers in War Time: Mental Health in Complex Emergency

Posted 20/09/2022

Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC) and Centre for Global Health (CGH) jointly organize a lunchtime seminar on self care for ...

A 4-Continent, 8-Year International Research Project Funded by Wellcome Trust to Investigate the Aftermaths of Humanitarian Crises

Posted 05/09/2022

An international research team with CCOUC as the Asian partner was funded in the very first round of the Wellcome Trust’s new Discovery Award scheme to conduct an 8-year, GBP6.5 million (HK$60 ...

Participating in Chinese Translation of QSAND (Quantifying Sustainability in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters)

Participating in Chinese Translation of QSAND (Quantifying Sustainability in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters)

Posted 26/08/2022

CCOUC was invited as an expert partner to participate in the translation of the Quantifying Sustainability in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters (QSAND) Guidance Manual, a self-assessment tool ...

WMO COVID-19 Research Task Team issues recommendations

WMO COVID-19 Research Task Team issues recommendations

Posted 28/06/2022

World Meteorological Organization (WMO) SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Research Task Team has issue Meteorological and air quality (MAQ) services for COVID-19 risk reduction and management: recommendations for ...

2022 Asia Pacific Science and Technology Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

2022 Asia Pacific Science and Technology Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

Posted 21/04/2022

CCOUC Director Prof Emily Chan participated in the Policy Forum: Sendai Framework and Science and Technology Aspirations in the Asia Pacific Region in the 2022 Asia Pacific Science and Technology ...

Field Learning and Research in Urban Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management: Community Distribution of Home Quarantine Care Supply Kits

Field Learning and Research in Urban Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management: Community Distribution of Home Quarantine Care Supply Kits

Posted 17/04/2022

Supported by Chow Tai Fook Charity Foundation and UGC Teaching Award, CCOUC and partners including CUHK Centre for Global Health and GX Foundation will conduct the 2022 Hong Kong Community Health ...

COVID-19 Community Education Poster

COVID-19 Community Education Poster

Posted 24/02/2022

As an effort in COVID-19 pandemic community response, CCOUC has joined hands with GX Foundation to design a poster "8 Facts About COVID" to enhance community knowledge and awareness of the evolving ...

COVID-19 Home Quarantine Care Guidelines Update

COVID-19 Home Quarantine Care Guidelines Update

Posted 17/02/2022

In view of the urgent local needs for home quarantine care during the COVID-19 pandemic, CCOUC has joined hands with GX Foundation, advised by the Community Health Education Technical Advisory Team ...

CCOUC Delegation Visited Sister Unit at Fudan University

CCOUC Delegation Visited Sister Unit at Fudan University

Posted 02/12/2021

Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC) and Fudan University’s Integrated Research on Disaster Risk International Centre of ...