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Health workforce development strategy in Health-EDRM: evidence from literature review, case studies and expert consultations

Health workforce development strategy in Health-EDRM: evidence from literature review, case studies and expert consultations

Posted 20/03/2020

In collaboration with experts from Harvard University, Tohoku University, University of Hyogo, University of Piemonte Orientale, University of the Philippines Manila and Sichuan University, CCOUC is ...

10 Free Online Courses on Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response

10 Free Online Courses on Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response

Posted 26/02/2020

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 ...

Global research and innovation forum: towards a roadmap for the 2019 novel Coronavirus

Global research and innovation forum: towards a roadmap for the 2019 novel Coronavirus

Posted 17/02/2020

CCOUC Director Prof Emily Chan has been invited by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R) to join the 2-day WHO ...

Academic Talk: Interdisciplinary Global Field Experiential Teaching and Learning: Ethnic Minority Health Project of CCOUC

Academic Talk: Interdisciplinary Global Field Experiential Teaching and Learning: Ethnic Minority Health Project of CCOUC

Posted 04/05/2020

Prof Emily Ying Yang Chan, CCOUC Centre Director was invited to deliver an academic talk entitled “Interdisciplinary Global Field Experiential Teaching and Learning: Ethnic Minority Health Project of ...

Chinese Edition of Sphere Handbook 2018 and Sphere Focal Point Meetings in Beijing

Chinese Edition of Sphere Handbook 2018 and Sphere Focal Point Meetings in Beijing

Posted 30/01/2020

On 8 and 9 December 2019, CCOUC, having served as a Sphere Focal Point for China since 2014 and participated in the Chinese translation of the Sphere Handbook 2018, participated in the discussion ...

Public Education on Weather and Health

Public Education on Weather and Health

Posted 30/01/2020

In order to enhance resilience of local population in face of extreme weather events, CCOUC collaborated with Hong Kong Observatory to talk about weather-related health issues in a radio programme ...

Safety Workshops on Campus Clean-up

Safety Workshops on Campus Clean-up

Posted 28/11/2019

CCOUC co-organised a series of safety workshops on campus clean-up with various units at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) after the social unrest event in CUHK this month. There were ...

The Hong Kong government must come clean about tear gas

Posted 21/11/2019

By Kevin K.C. Hung, Emily Y.Y. Chan and Colin A. Graham The Hong Kong police force has deployed more than 9,000 rounds of tear gas in the city since June in responding to antigovernment ...

Use of tear gas for crowd control in Hong Kong

Posted 21/11/2019

By Emily Ying Yang Chan, Kevin Kei Ching Hung, Heidi Hoi Yi Hung, Colin A Graham Heated debates over the Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) ...

Working Group Meeting on Natech Risk in Asia Pacific in Japan

Posted 21/11/2019

CCOUC participated in the Working Group Meeting on Natech Risk in Asia Pacific of the Asia Science Technology and Academia Advisory Group of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction ...