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2nd Asian Science and Technology Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction in Beijing

2nd Asian Science and Technology Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction in Beijing

Posted 08/06/2018

The 2nd Asian Science and Technology Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction was held in Beijing on 17-18 Apr 2018. The conference was a pre-event of Asian Ministerial Conferences on Disaster Risk ...

19th IRDR Scientific Committee Meeting in Beijing

19th IRDR Scientific Committee Meeting in Beijing

Posted 08/06/2018

The 19th Scientific Committee Meeting of Integrated Research on Disaster Reduction (IRDR) was held in Beijing during 15-16 Apr 2018. The meeting had a special focus on consolidating Integrated ...

Research Summit on Health-Related Emergency and Disaster Risk Management

Research Summit on Health-Related Emergency and Disaster Risk Management

Posted 21/05/2018

  Throughout several landmark UN agreements adopted in 2015-16, including Sendai Framework, 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Paris climate agreement and New Urban Agenda (Habitat III), ...

CGH & CCOUC Lunch-Time Seminar – Myths about Human Trafficking

CGH & CCOUC Lunch-Time Seminar – Myths about Human Trafficking

Posted 23/04/2018

Dr Mellissa Withers, Associate Professor at the Institute for Global Health at University of Southern California and Director of the APRU Global Health Program, was invited to deliver a lunch-time ...

Interview with Museum of Climate Change

Posted 16/04/2018

CCOUC Director Prof Emily Chan was interviewed by the January 2018 issue of Oceans and Sky, the monthly newsletter of Hong Kong Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change, to share her insights into the ...

Disaster Risk Reduction Meeting and Field Trip in Miyagi Prefecture

Disaster Risk Reduction Meeting and Field Trip in Miyagi Prefecture

Posted 16/03/2018

Seven years after the 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku, Ms Carol Wong, Programme Manager of CCOUC, was invited to join the disaster risk reduction meeting and field trip from 27 ...

CGH & CCOUC Global Health Lecture Series – The Space Between Clinical Medicine and Public Health: An Infectious Disease Perspective

CGH & CCOUC Global Health Lecture Series – The Space Between Clinical Medicine and Public Health: An Infectious Disease Perspective

Posted 07/03/2018

Dr Tammy Meyers was invited to talk about her personal encounters in her career trying to bridge the clinical and public health aspects of infectious diseases in the lunch-time seminar organised by ...

A Visit to Harvard University

A Visit to Harvard University

Posted 07/03/2018

Prof Emily Chan, CCOUC Director and a visiting scholar of the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, was invited to share her experience and insights on building up health and disaster risk ...

CCOUC Lunch-Time Seminar – The Right to Protect: How Does International Humanitarian Law Offer Protection to Medical and Humanitarian Professionals During Armed Conflicts?

CCOUC Lunch-Time Seminar – The Right to Protect: How Does International Humanitarian Law Offer Protection to Medical and Humanitarian Professionals During Armed Conflicts?

Posted 07/03/2018

On 7 February 2018, Prof Sanoj Rajan, the ICCR India Chair Visiting Professor at CUHK Faculty of Law and an expert in the field of International Law and Human Rights, was invited to CCOUC lunch-time ...

Meeting with University of Exeter European Centre for Environment & Human Health

Meeting with University of Exeter European Centre for Environment & Human Health

Posted 07/03/2018

Professor Emily Chan and Dr Holly Lam of CCOUC participated in a meeting with researchers from the European Centre for Environment & Human Health (ECEHH), University of Exeter Medical School at ...