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CCOUC received generous donation from Chow Tai Fook Charity Foundation to support its public health train-the-trainer project in China’s rural communities

CCOUC received generous donation from Chow Tai Fook Charity Foundation to support its public health train-the-trainer project in China’s rural communities

Posted 21/10/2014

  (From left) Mr. Cheng Kar-shing, Chairman of Chow Tai Fook Charity Foundation, Professor Francis Chan, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and Professor Emily Chan, Director of CCOUC.   CCOUC has ...

Field trainees recruitment

Posted 15/10/2014

The recruitment for field trainees is now open. We are now looking for passionate, energetic students/ volunteers to participate in the coming field trips, which aim to provide unique opportunities ...

Sharing of research findings on Chinese urban and rural disaster health risk literacy in University of Western Australia

Posted 08/10/2014

  To promoting academic exchange in the field of disaster and medical humanitarian response, CCOUC Director Prof. Emily Chan paid a 3-day to University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth and ...

Memorandum of Agreement between CCOUC with the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), Belgium

Posted 18/09/2014

  A Memorandum of Agreement between CCOUC with the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), Institute of Research in Health and Society (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, ...

CCOUC NGO Fellowship 2014

CCOUC NGO Fellowship 2014

Posted 30/10/2014

  The CCOUC NGO Fellowship programme 2014 officially kick-started on 3rd July 2014. Fourteen practitioners and researchers from Hong Kong and Mainland China* have participated in the summer courses ...

Two Poster Presentations at the UK Faculty of Public Health’s Annual Conference 2014

Posted 31/10/2014

  Dr. Greta Tam, CCOUC Clinical Tutor, participated in the UK Faculty of Public Health’s Annual Conference 2014 held in Manchester on 2-3 July 2014.  Dr. Tam delivered two poster presentations at ...

Agreement of Understanding between CCOUC and Public Health Emergency Center at Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC)

Agreement of Understanding between CCOUC and Public Health Emergency Center at Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC)

Posted 10/07/2014

  Prof. Emily Chan (centre right) met Mr. Zhang Bike (second from right) in Beijing on 25 June 2014. An Agreement of Understanding (合作意向书) between CCOUC and Public Health Emergency Center at ...

CCOUC won best paper award in the 12th Asia Pacific Conference on Disaster Medicine

Posted 15/09/2014

  A CCOUC paper entitled “Impact of Disaster Preparedness intervention in Yi minority community in Sichuan Province, China” co-authored by 5 members of CCOUC won the best paper award in the 12th ...

CCOUC is now recruiting students and volunteers to join the field-based activity of CCOUC Ethnic Minority Health Project !

Posted 12/09/2014

  Students and volunteers from all disciplines are welcome. For interested parties, please click here to register. We will keep you informed regarding the upcoming news and events, including ...

A Press Commentary on Community Disaster Preparedness

Posted 26/08/2014

Why community disaster preparedness Earlier this August, many of us in Hong Kong were shocked by the consecutive disasters in mainland China and Taiwan, including a 6.5-magnitude earthquake striking ...