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ANSO-DRR Steering Committee Meeting

ANSO-DRR Steering Committee Meeting

Posted 19/01/2021

Professor Emily Chan, CCOUC Director and a steering committee member of the Alliance of International Science Organizations on Disaster Risk Reduction (ANSO-DRR), and Mr C S Wong of CCOUC team ...

IRDR China Committee Annual Meeting

IRDR China Committee Annual Meeting

Posted 11/01/2021

CCOUC Assistant Director Mr C S Wong and Research Associate Mr Zhe Huang represented CCOUC to join the IRDR China Committee annual meeting in Beijing via VooV on 11 January 2021. This meeting ...

Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) Annual Conference 2020

Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) Annual Conference 2020

Posted 15/12/2020

Mr C S Wong and Mr Huang Zhang of the CCOUC team participated in the two-day Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) 2020 Virtual Online Conference via Zoom from Colombo of Sri ...

UN-Habitat Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC) 5.0

UN-Habitat Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC) 5.0

Posted 15/12/2020

CCOUC Director Prof Emily Chan was invited as a key speaker during the UN-Habitat Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC) 5.0 via Zoom from India on 9 December 2020. Entitled “Think innovAte aAT For Urban ...

Asia-Pacific Partnership for Disaster Risk Reduction (APP-DRR) Forum

Asia-Pacific Partnership for Disaster Risk Reduction (APP-DRR) Forum

Posted 15/12/2020

CCOUC Director Prof Emily Chan was invited to give a presentation on 1 December 2020 in the 2-day Asia-Pacific Partnership for Disaster Risk Reduction (APP-DRR) Forum organised by the United Nations ...

The 5th Belt and Road Summit

The 5th Belt and Road Summit

Posted 14/12/2020

Prof Emily Chan, Prof Kevin Hung and Mr C S Wong of the CCOUC team participated in the 2-day Fifth Belt and Road Summit virtually organized by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative ...

The Second Core Group Meeting of the WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Research Network

The Second Core Group Meeting of the WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Research Network

Posted 14/12/2020

As a Co-Chair of the WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Research Network (WHO Health-EDRM RN), CCOUC Director Prof Emily Chan participated in the network’s second ...

The 6th Lancet-CMAS Health Conference

The 6th Lancet-CMAS Health Conference

Posted 08/12/2020

Prof Emily Chan, Prof Kevin Hung, Mr C S Wong and Mr Zhe Huang of the CCOUC team participated in the two-day event of the 6th Lancet-CAMS Health Conference held virtually by Chinese Academy of ...

The 24th IRDR Scientific Committee Meeting

The 24th IRDR Scientific Committee Meeting

Posted 08/12/2020

CCOUC Assistant Director Mr C S Wong represented CCOUC as an IRDR International Centre of Excellence (ICoE) to join the 24th IRDR Scientific Committee Meeting via Zoom from Beijing on 10 November ...

Key considerations: COVID-19 in informal urban settlements

Key considerations: COVID-19 in informal urban settlements

Posted 01/12/2020

CCOUC Director Professor Emily Chan, as a Co-Chair of the WHO COVID-19 Research Roadmap Social Science working group, worked with the working group’s partners at the Social Science in Humanitarian ...