A joint CCOUC-Harvard lecture on “What have we learnt regarding disaster preparedness and resilience building in health emergency in rural China?”

A joint CCOUC-FXB-HHI lecture on ‘What have we learnt regarding disaster preparedness and resilience building in health emergency in rural China?’ was delivered by CCOUC Director Prof. Emily Chan, Director of Harvard University’s the François-Xavier Bagnoud Centre for Health and Human Rights Prof. Jennifer Leaning, and Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Prof. Michael VanRooyen at CUHK on 3 April 2014.

The speakers shared insights and critical perspectives on disaster health emergency in China, while Prof. Chan introduced the experience on the recent health education field trip with Prof. Jennifer Leaning to the remote rural Hongyan Village in Sichuan Province of China.

After the lecture, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the Faculty of Medicine of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) to strengthen the cooperation between the two institutions in public health research and education via faculty and student exchanges.

The joint trip to Sichuan and the joint lecture marked the first collaborative project in research and education programme between the two institutions.

Press coverage in local newspapers on 4 April 2014 (Chinese Only).

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