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CCOUC 10th Anniversary Webinar: Health-EDRM and Disaster Mental Health in Asia Pacific

CCOUC 10th Anniversary Webinar: Health-EDRM and Disaster Mental Health in Asia Pacific

Posted 26/05/2021

  Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC) was established by the joint effort of Oxford University and The Chinese University of ...

CCOUC 10th Anniversary Webinar: Health-EDRM Education and Research in China: Commemorating the 512 Wenchuan Earthquake

CCOUC 10th Anniversary Webinar: Health-EDRM Education and Research in China: Commemorating the 512 Wenchuan Earthquake

Posted 07/05/2021

  Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC) was established by the joint effort of Oxford University and The Chinese University of ...

Public Talk at the 1st Oxford Hong Kong Forum

Public Talk at the 1st Oxford Hong Kong Forum

Posted 25/03/2021

CCOUC Director Prof Emily Chan delivered the opening plenary talk entitled “Why I chose the lesser travelled path - prominence of public health and disaster relief in the age of turbulence” at the ...

WMO report examines meteorological and air quality factors and COVID-19

WMO report examines meteorological and air quality factors and COVID-19

Posted 03/05/2021

World Meteorological Organization SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Task Team has issue its first report on meteorological and air quality (MAQ) factors affecting the COVID-19 pandemic on 18 March 2021 in Geneva. ...

Inaugural Webinar of CCOUC 10th Anniversary International Webinar Series on Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management cum IRDR Global Research Agenda Pre-Session: Latest frontier and application of Health-EDRM within the scope of COVID-19

Inaugural Webinar of CCOUC 10th Anniversary International Webinar Series on Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management cum IRDR Global Research Agenda Pre-Session: Latest frontier and application of Health-EDRM within the scope of COVID-19

Posted 13/04/2021

  Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC) was established by the joint effort of Oxford University and The Chinese University of ...

Panel discussion at WHO ad hoc consultation on community-centred approaches to health emergencies

Panel discussion at WHO ad hoc consultation on community-centred approaches to health emergencies

Posted 08/06/2021

CCOUC Director Prof Emily Chan participated as a panelist in a group discussion on community-centred initiatives in this stage of readiness of the health emergency cycle in the World Health ...

Introducing CCOUC to CUHK Medical Students

Introducing CCOUC to CUHK Medical Students

Posted 08/06/2021

CCOUC Deputy Director Prof Kevin Hung and Assistant Director Mr Chi Shing Wong shared CCOUC’s works on disaster and medical humanitarian response at a talk for medical students organised by The ...

Presentation at Emergency Management Training Course of Hong Kong Institute for Public Administration

Presentation at Emergency Management Training Course of Hong Kong Institute for Public Administration

Posted 31/05/2021

CCOUC Director Prof Emily Chan was invited to be a speaker at the Emergency Management Training Course 2020/2021 to emergency-related senior civil servants and senior management of public authorities ...

WHO COVID-19 Vaccines Research Forum

WHO COVID-19 Vaccines Research Forum

Posted 31/05/2021

CCOUC team participated in the World Health Organization Vaccines Research Forum on 2 March 2021. The aims of the forum were to provide rapid updates of COVID-19 vaccine research progress against WHO ...

Focus group on the implications of COVID-19 on disaster management law

Posted 08/06/2021

CCOUC Director Prof Emily Chan was invited to participate in a focus group discussion among UNDRR, UNDP, IFRC, and other independent experts from around the Asia Pacific region on 25 February 2021 to ...