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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 ...

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 ...