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Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Climate Change and Health Forum

Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Climate Change and Health Forum

Posted 07/03/2018

Prof Emily Chan and CCOUC research team members were invited to participate in the “Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Climate Change and Health Forum” organised by Hong Kong Observatory on 22 Jan 2018. ...

Training Workshop for the Faculty of Ningxia Medical University

Posted 07/03/2018

Entrusted by Ningxia Medical University (NMU), the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care (JCSPHPC) organised a training workshop on medical and health teaching for a delegation of 15 key ...

CCOUC Lunch-Time Seminar – From Refugee Crisis to Armed Conflicts: Key Humanitarian Crises in 2017 and Analysis into 2018

CCOUC Lunch-Time Seminar – From Refugee Crisis to Armed Conflicts: Key Humanitarian Crises in 2017 and Analysis into 2018

Posted 25/01/2018

In the lunchtime seminar of CCOUC Disaster & Humanitarian Series on 18 January 2018, Mr Nigel Timmins, Global Humanitarian Director of Oxfam International, was invited to talk about major ...

Training workshop for a delegation of Guizhou provincial Red Cross

Training workshop for a delegation of Guizhou provincial Red Cross

Posted 07/03/2018

A training workshop for a delegation of Guizhou provincial Red Cross with the theme of capacity building for emergency management was organised by CCOUC on 18 Dec 2017 at SPHPC. Mr CHIU Cheuk Pong, a ...

IRDR Executive Director Qunli Han visited CCOUC

IRDR Executive Director Qunli Han visited CCOUC

Posted 14/12/2017

Mr Qunli Han, the Executive Director of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), visited CCOUC on 8 December 2017 to discuss collaboration in research and training for the network of IRDR. CCOUC ...

World Bosai Forum - IDRC 2017 in Sendai, Japan

World Bosai Forum - IDRC 2017 in Sendai, Japan

Posted 14/12/2017

CCOUC member, Dr. Holly Lam, participated in The World Bosai Forum - International Disaster and Risk Conference 2017 in Sendai, Japan during 25-28 November 2017. In the conference, Dr. Lam delivered ...

Global Sphere Focal Points Forum in Bangkok, Thailand

Posted 07/03/2018

CCOUC member Ms Carol Wong participated in the Global Sphere Focal Points Forum held in Bangkok, Thailand on 7-9 November 2017. CCOUC as Sphere Country Focal Point in China joined another 20 Sphere’s ...

CCOUC Lunch-Time Seminar – Public Health Emergency in Bangladesh: Stateless Rohingya in Dire Straits

CCOUC Lunch-Time Seminar – Public Health Emergency in Bangladesh: Stateless Rohingya in Dire Straits

Posted 14/12/2017

In a lunchtime seminar organised by CCOUC on 2 November 2017, CCOUC team member Mr Cheuk Pong Chiu introduced the current public health crisis among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Rohingya people ...

International Conference on Climate Change and Health System in Iran

Posted 14/12/2017

Professor Emily Chan, Director of CCOUC, was invited by Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran to deliver a presentation on “Policy Implication of Health Impacts of Climate Change in Hong Kong” ...

The 29th Annual Scientific Conference of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology in Sydney, Australia (ISEE17)

Posted 14/12/2017

CCOUC members, Dr. Holly Lam and Mr. Sida Liu, participated in the 29th Annual Scientific Conference of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology in Sydney, Australia during 24-28 ...