CCOUC 10th Anniversary Webinar: Heath-EDRM and Climate Change

 

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 Hong Kong as a non-profit research centre to carry out research, training and community knowledge transfer in the area of disaster and medical humanitarian response in Greater China and the Asia-Pacific Region a decade ago on 19 April 2011.

 

To celebrate this milestone of CCOUC, we are organizing CCOUC 10th Anniversary International Webinar Series on Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management, supported by various global partners. The international webinar series aims to allow participants to:

 

Details of the coming Webinar are as follows:

Title

Heath-EDRM and Climate Change

CCOUC 10th Anniversary International Webinar Series on Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management

Format

Zoom

Date

5 October 2021

Time

19:00-20:15 (Hong Kong Time, GMT+8)

Organizers

Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), The Chinese University of Hong Kong; IRDR International Centre of Excellence-CCOUC; IRDR ICoE on Risk Interconnectivity and Governance on Weather/Climate Extremes Impact and Public Health (IRDR-ICoE-RIG-WECEIPHE), Fudan University

Sponsors

  • GX Foundation
  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • University of Oxford Nuffield Department of Medicine

Co-organizers

  • CUHK Centre for Global Health (CGH)
  • CUHK JC School of Public Health and Primary Care (SPHPC)
  • GX Foundation

Programme

  • Presentations
    • Prof Haidong KAN

      Professor, Vice Director of IRDR ICoE on Risk Interconnectivity and Governance on Weather/Climate Extremes Impact and Public Health (IRDR-ICoE-RIG-WECEIPHE)

      Associate Dean of School of Public Health, Fudan University

      Health Risk and Disease Burden of Weather/Climate in China

       

    • Prof Emily Ying Yang Chan

      Director and Professor, CCOUC

      Director, IRDR ICoE-CCOUC

      Co-chairperson, World Health Organization Thematic Platform for Health-EDRM Research Network

      Climate Change and Health in a Subtropical Chinese City

  • Discussion
  • Q&A

Target audience

  • Practitioners, policymakers, academics and students of health, DRR and Health-EDRM
  • Instructors and alumni of CCOUC International Croucher Summer Course 2013-2017

Language

English

Registration

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A0lZed8DQZmF7vtYuYp6iQ

webinar

Enquiries

Tel: +852 2252 8850

Email: ccouc@cuhk.edu.hk