CCOUC member awarded a scholarship for the 19th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WCDEM)

 

Mr. Kelvin LING, a CCOUC member and doctoral student, has been awarded the WCDEM Student Scholarship (for Registration Waiver) to attend the 19th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine held in Cape Town of South Africa in April 2015.

 

Mr. Ling will be delivering two oral presentations on disaster preparedness and risk management in rural settings during the conference with the following titles:

- Enhancing villagers’ health risk literacy on non­communicable diseases (NCDs) as a means for disaster risk management: a pilot study in rural China

​-​ Building health literate village in rural China: an exploration of capacity building in disaster preparedness