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Former CCOUC member won scholarship for the upcoming Inaugural Planetary Health/Geohealth Annual Meeting in Boston

Posted 24/04/2017

Ms Janice Ho, former CCOUC member and current CUHK PhD student, was awarded a travel scholarship for the upcoming Inaugural Planetary Health/Geohealth Annual Meeting, hosted by The Planetary Health ...

A visit to the National Society for Earthquake Technology - Nepal (NSET)

A visit to the National Society for Earthquake Technology - Nepal (NSET)

Posted 24/04/2017

The CCOUC team visited the National Society for Earthquake Technology - Nepal (NSET) on 16 April 2017. Established by engineers, NSET uses a technical approach to promote disaster risk reduction ...

CCOUC Lunch-Time Lecture Series 2016: Information Dissemination under Emergencies and its Extension in Public Health

CCOUC Lunch-Time Lecture Series 2016: Information Dissemination under Emergencies and its Extension in Public Health

Posted 14/03/2017

Dr Nan Zhang from Tsinghua University shared his research on information dissemination model in a lunchtime lecture hosted by CCOUC on 5 December 2016. Some 20 participants learnt about Dr Zhang’s ...

Integrated Research on Disaster Risk International Centre of Excellence at CCOUC (IRDR ICoE-CCOUC)

Integrated Research on Disaster Risk International Centre of Excellence at CCOUC (IRDR ICoE-CCOUC)

Posted 14/03/2017

Recognised by the international Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) programme jointly sponsored by International Council for Science (ICSU), International Social Science Council (ISSC) and ...

Asian Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction 2016

Posted 14/03/2017

Three CCOUC members participated in the Asian Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction 2016 (AMCDRR), jointly convened by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and ...

CCOUC Appointed Secretariat for WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency & Disaster Risk Management Research Group

Posted 14/03/2017

CCOUC was appointed as Secretariat for the World Health Organization Thematic Platform for Health Emergency & Disaster Risk Management Research Group (WHO H-EDRM Research Group), which has been ...

Workshop on Emergency and Disaster Risk Management for Health

Workshop on Emergency and Disaster Risk Management for Health

Posted 14/03/2017

CCOUC organised an international workshop entitled “Emergency and Disaster Risk Management for Health: New Frontiers for Public Health Science” on 23 September 2016 to examine the research landscape ...

Lancet “Healthy Cities in China” meeting, Xiamen, China

Lancet “Healthy Cities in China” meeting, Xiamen, China

Posted 14/03/2017

Professor Emily Chan and Mr Sida Liu of CCOUC were invited to attend the Lancet Commission meeting held in Xiamen, China from 11 to 13 September 2016. The 2nd meeting is part of a newly commissioned ...

CALL FOR PAPERS: International Journal of Disaster Risk Science

Posted 21/12/2016

Submission due date: 17 February 2017 Guest Editor: Professor Emily Chan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong   Introduction Asia-Pacific is the world’s most disaster-prone region. In addition to ...

Academic Exchange with Tibetan Medical College

Academic Exchange with Tibetan Medical College

Posted 24/11/2016

A 8-person team from the Tibetan Medical College visited the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) for academic exchange with CCOUC on 11 ...