CCOUC on COVID-19

Following the declaration of the COVID-19 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, the World Health Organization stepped up the global alert by declaring it a pandemic on 11 March 2020.

Serving as a global and regional platform for research, education, and community knowledge transfer in the areas of disaster and humanitarian medicine, CCOUC has been responding to COVID-19 outbreak by engaging in various research, education, and community knowledge transfer initiatives with local and international academic partners since early February 2020. Relevant resources, tools, projects, and information can be found in this site.

 

 

WMO COVID-19 Research Task Team issues recommendations
(updated on 28 Jun 2022)
Field Learning and Research in Urban Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management: Community Distribution of Home Quarantine Care Supply Kits
(updated on 17 Apr 2022)
未來城市：等候移送新常態 外傭染疫無家歸 民間自製隔離指南自救 (Chinese only)
(updated on 9 Mar 2022)
COVID-19 Community Education Poster
(updated on 24 Feb 2022)
COVID-19 Home Quarantine Care Guidelines Update
(updated on 17 Feb 2022)
中大醫學院6招家居檢疫防疫小貼士 (Chinese only)
(updated on 8 Feb 2022)
Pandemic response must remember needs of Hongkongers in home quarantine (English only)
(updated on 8 Feb 2022)
陳英凝、黃智誠、洪磯正：政府家居隔離未整全考慮民眾所需 (Chinese only)
(updated on 8 Feb 2022)
Home quarantine could be on the cards for close Covid-19 contacts, but are Hongkongers prepared? (English only)
(updated on 8 Feb 2022)
黃智誠、洪磯正、陳英凝：推家居檢疫 須早作準備 (Chinese only)
(updated on 8 Feb 2022)
Are children more at risk from Omicron? (English only)
(updated on 8 Feb 2022)
Rapid Review: Vaccine Hesitancy and Building Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccination 
(updated on 14 July 2021)**
Panel discussion at WHO ad hoc consultation on community-centred approaches to health emergencies 
(updated on 8 June 2021)
Asia-Pacific Science and Technology Academic Advisory Group (APSTAAG) Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction 
(updated on 8 June 2021)
Focus group on the implications of COVID-19 on disaster management law 
(updated on 8 June 2021)
WHO COVID-19 Vaccines Research Forum 
(updated on 31 May 2021)
WMO report examines meteorological and air quality factors and COVID-19 
(updated on 3 May 2021)*
WHO ad hoc consultation: COVID-19 vaccines – Methodological approaches to assess variants effect on vaccine effects 
(updated on 1 Mar 2021)
WHO ad hoc consultation: COVID-19 vaccines – knowledge gaps and research priorities 
(updated on 19 Jan 2021)
WHO ad hoc consultation: COVID-19 new variants – knowledge gaps and research priorities 
(updated on 19 Jan 2021)
WMO COVID-19 Task Team Webinar on MAQ influence 
(updated on 19 Jan 2021)
Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) Annual Conference 2020 
(updated on 15 Dec 2020)
The Second Core Group Meeting of the WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Research Network 
(updated on 14 Dec 2020)
The 6th Lancet-CMAS Health Conference 
(updated on 10 Dec 2020)
Key considerations: COVID-19 in informal urban settlements 
(updated on 1 Dec 2020)**
Key considerations: online information, mis- and disinformation in the context of COVID-19 
(updated on 1 Dec 2020)**
APRU Global Health Conference 2020: Universal Healthcare Across the Lifecourse 
(updated on 21 Oct 2020)
2020 Asia Pacific Science and Technology Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction 
(updated on 20 Oct 2020)
Presentation on COVID-19 at Asia Pacific Disaster Mental Health Network Meeting 
(updated on 20 Oct 2020)
IRDR ICoE Online Master Forum Series: Rebuilding from COVID-19 to Achieve Global Agenda 2030 
(updated on 30 Sep 2020)
ANSO International Symposium – Lessons from and Insights on COVID-19 
(updated on 30 Sep 2020)
Sphere Webinar: From Ebola to COVID-19: Lessons learned from the DRC 
(updated on 25 Sep 2020)
Contributing to World Health Organization Updated Global Guidance on COVID-19 Home Care 
(updated on 25 Aug 2020)***
WMO Climatological, Meteorological and Environmental Factors in the COVID-19 Pandemic Symposium 
(updated on 25 Aug 2020)
Homecare of Individuals with COVID-19 
(updated on 12 Aug 2020)***
World Meteorological Organization Task Team for COVID-19 
(updated on 12 Aug 2020)
PAHO Webinar: Disaster Risk Reduction in Indigenous Communities in the Americas in the Covid-19 Context 
(updated on 12 Aug 2020)
WHO Global Research and Innovation Forum on COVID-19 
(updated on 22 Jul 2020)
Research Results of “Home Quarantine and Informal Home Care during COVID-19” 
(updated on 19 Jun 2020)***
Technical Advisory Document: Integrating Biological Hazards (Including Pandemics) Into DRR Planning 
(updated on 17 Jun 2020)*
The Fifteenth Meeting of The High-level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters (HELP) of the United Nations: 2020 HELP Actions under COVID-19 Pandemic 
(updated on 2 Jun 2020)
A review on implications of home care in a biological hazard: The case of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 
(updated on 28 May 2020)*
Coronavirus vaccine: WHO to issue guidelines on proposed use of human challenge trials
(updated on 4 May 2020)
Coronavirus: Why we shouldn’t count on hospitals to save us in a pandemic
(updated on 4 May 2020)
Live Seminar on Epidemic Ethics: Why should ethics be front and centre to the response to COVID-19? Is it?
(updated on 4 May 2020)
First Free Video-based Chinese Online Course on Sphere Standards
(updated on 4 May 2020)*
10 Free Online Courses on Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response
(updated on 27 Mar 2020)*
Key considerations: quarantine in the context of COVID-19
(updated on 23 Mar 2020)**
Home Care Guidelines (COVID-19)
(updated on 20 Mar 2020)*
Perception towards coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and home quarantine: A cross-sectional survey in Hong Kong
(updated on 20 Mar 2020)***
Research in global health emergencies: ethical issues
(updated on 20 Mar 2020)**
The role of communication strategies and media discourse in shaping psychological and behavioral response to the COVID-19 outbreak
(updated on 20 Mar 2020)***
Health workforce development strategy in Health-EDRM: evidence from literature review, case studies and expert consultations
(updated on 20 Mar 2020)***
Coronavirus: don't bank on epidemic easing in the summer, scientists say (English only)
(updated on 29 Feb 2020)
Coronavirus: WHO, experts fail to reach consensus on how deadly outbreak should be defined (English only)
(updated on 28 Feb 2020)
Global research and innovation forum: towards a roadmap for the 2019 novel Coronavirus
(updated on 17 Feb 2020)

 

* useful resources; ** useful tools; *** research projects