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Keio University RISK AP Seminar: COVID-19: International Responses

Posted 22/05/2020

CCOUC Director Prof Emily Chan delivered a presentation at Keio University RISK AP Seminar entitled “COVID-19: International Responses” via Webex on 21 May 2020. Ms Loretta Hieber Girardet, Head of ...

Alliance of International Science Organizations on Disaster Risk Reduction (ANSO-DRR) Meeting

Alliance of International Science Organizations on Disaster Risk Reduction (ANSO-DRR) Meeting

Posted 22/05/2020

Prof Emily Chan, Prof Kevin Hung and Mr C S Wong of CCOUC team participated in the 2nd Discussion Meeting (Webinar) for Alliance of International Science Organizations on Disaster Risk Reduction ...

Partnership with GX Foundation

Posted 27/11/2020

CCOUC concluded a 3-year Agreement of Understanding for Collaborations with The GX Foundation on April 2020 to jointly promote education, training and research in disaster and humanitarian ...

Live Seminar on Epidemic Ethics: Why should ethics be front and centre to the response to COVID-19? Is it?

Live Seminar on Epidemic Ethics: Why should ethics be front and centre to the response to COVID-19? Is it?

Posted 27/04/2020

CCOUC Director Prof Emily Chan was invited by World Health Organization PHEPREN (Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Ethics Network) to give a presentation in an online seminar ...

First Free Video-based Chinese Online Course on Sphere Standards

First Free Video-based Chinese Online Course on Sphere Standards

Posted 27/04/2020

In response to widespread campus closure globally due to the COVID-19 pandemic and as part of the knowledge transfer endeavour of the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster ...

Key considerations: quarantine in the context of COVID-19

Key considerations: quarantine in the context of COVID-19

Posted 30/03/2020

In March 2020, CCOUC Director Professor Emily Chan, as a Co-Chair of the WHO COVID-19 Research Roadmap Social Science working group, worked with the working group’s partners at the Social Science in ...

Home Care Guidelines (COVID-19)

Home Care Guidelines (COVID-19)

Posted 30/03/2020

In view of the emerging needs for home care quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic, CCOUC has developed home care guidelines based on advices of World Health Organization, Chinese Center for Disease ...

Research in global health emergencies: ethical issues

Research in global health emergencies: ethical issues

Posted 30/03/2020

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics published the findings of an in-depth inquiry into the ethical issues relating to research in global health emergencies in January 2020. The inquiry was run by an ...

Perception towards coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and home quarantine: A cross-sectional survey in Hong Kong

Perception towards coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and home quarantine: A cross-sectional survey in Hong Kong

Posted 20/03/2020

As part of the response effort of the WHO COVID-19 Research Roadmap Social Science working group, CCOUC is conducting a three-week territory-wide cross-sectional survey in Hong Kong by random-digit ...

The role of communication strategies and media discourse in shaping psychological and behavioral response to the COVID-19 outbreak: a comparative analysis between Canada and two Asian countries/regions

The role of communication strategies and media discourse in shaping psychological and behavioral response to the COVID-19 outbreak: a comparative analysis between Canada and two Asian countries/regions

Posted 20/03/2020

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, CCOUC joins hands with multinational experts from Canada, the Philippines and the United Kingdom to undertake a cross-country comparative rapid research on the ...