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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 ...

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 ...