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WHO Thematic Platform Meeting on Emergency and Disaster Risk Management for Health (EDRM-H) in Geneva

WHO Thematic Platform Meeting on Emergency and Disaster Risk Management for Health (EDRM-H) in Geneva

Posted 23/02/2016

Five members of CCOUC were invited to attend the Thematic Platform Meeting on Research, Knowledge and Evidence for Emergency and Disaster Risk Management for Health (EDRM-H), hosted by WHO in Geneva, ...

Talks at FXB Center of Harvard University

Talks at FXB Center of Harvard University

Posted 28/12/2015

CCOUC Director Prof. Emily Chan, as a visiting scholar of the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, was invited to share her experiences and insights on leading CCOUC to build programmes on ...

Renewing the collaborations between CCOUC and Harvard University research units

Posted 28/12/2015

The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between CCOUC and Harvard University’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) was renewed for another three years in ...

CGH & CCOUC Lunchtime Lecture: A Complex Context – Myanmar, Disasters and the Health System

Posted 20/01/2016

Dr Andrew Darby Smith from Oxford shared his research on disaster risk and the health system response capacity of Myanmar in a lunchtime lecture jointly hosted by CUHK Centre for Global Health and ...

Community Knowledge Transfer: Climate and Health – Winter

Posted 29/12/2015

As part of the Centre’s effort in community knowledge transfer, CCOUC Centre Director Professor Emily Chan was featured on episode 101 “Climate and Health – Winter” of the Hong Kong Observatory’s ...

Participating in four-day international conferences and events in Beijing on “Planetary Health” and health research in China

Participating in four-day international conferences and events in Beijing on “Planetary Health” and health research in China

Posted 19/11/2015

Four members of CCOUC were invited to a series of international conferences and events in Beijing of China from 28 to 31 October organized by The Lancet, Tsinghua University, Chinese Center for ...

Third Annual Conference of the Chinese Society of Disaster Medicine

Third Annual Conference of the Chinese Society of Disaster Medicine

Posted 19/11/2015

CCOUC team attended the 3rd Annual Conference of the Chinese Society of Disaster Medicine held in Shanghai from 24 to 25 October 2015. This year’s theme is disaster response and management in urban ...

Annual Conference on Disaster Preparedness and Response 2015

Annual Conference on Disaster Preparedness and Response 2015

Posted 29/12/2015

   Fourteen CCOUC members participated in the Annual Conference on Disaster Preparedness and Response 2015, which took place from 30 October to 1 November 2015 in Hong Kong. The conference was ...

CCOUC Condemns Airstrikes on MSF Hospital in Afghanistan

Posted 07/10/2015

In light of the devastating airstrikes on a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, CCOUC would like to express our sincere condolences to those affected by this ...

The World Humanitarian Summit Global Youth Consultation

The World Humanitarian Summit Global Youth Consultation

Posted 30/09/2015

CCOUC member Miss Sharon Lo attended the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS)’s Global Youth Consultation in Doha of Qatar on 1-2 September. Almost 200 youth activists from 82 countries participated in ...