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CCOUC member won an award for the upcoming 48th Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health Conference

Posted 27/07/2016

One of our PhD students, Ms Janice Ho, was awarded the Young Investigator Travelers Award (YITA) for the upcoming 48th Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health Conference (APACPH 2016), ...

CCOUC & CGH Lunchtime Lecture Series 2016: Bhutan: A Kingdom of Happiness and Disasters

Posted 15/07/2016

Three professionals from Bhutan, Mr Kumar Pradhan, Mr Dorji Tsherub and Mr Sonam Tobgay B shared with the audience on how the country tackles the frequent local disasters in this lecture jointly ...

CCOUC scholar participates in prestigious international exchange programme on climate change and humanitarian response at Brown University

Posted 27/06/2016

CCOUC member Professor May Yeung joined 146 participants from 55 countries in the two-week annual residential programme, the Brown International Advanced Research Institute (BIARI), organised by the ...

CCOUC Director appointed member of UNISDR expert group and attended DRR workshop in Malaysia

CCOUC Director appointed member of UNISDR expert group and attended DRR workshop in Malaysia

Posted 24/05/2016

CCOUC Director Professor Emily Chan was appointed a member of The Asia Science Technology and Academia Advisory Group of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR ASTAAG) and ...

Understanding Risk Forum 2016 in Venice, Italy

Understanding Risk Forum 2016 in Venice, Italy

Posted 29/06/2016

A CCOUC field trainee Ms Karen Li attended the Understanding Risk Forum 2016 held in Venice, Italy from 16 to 20 May 2016. The annual forum is initiated by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction ...

Humanitarian Medicine Training and Exchange Programme in Bhutan

Humanitarian Medicine Training and Exchange Programme in Bhutan

Posted 15/06/2016

A 3-person delegation led by Professor Emily Chan, CCOUC Director, and Professor Samuel Wong, Associate Director of JC School of Public Health and Primary Care (JCSPHPC), The Chinese University of ...

First anniversary of Nepal earthquake: Slow progress in rehabilitation

First anniversary of Nepal earthquake: Slow progress in rehabilitation

Posted 02/06/2016

Nepal was devastated by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake on 25 April 2015 and stricken by another magnitude-7.3 earthquake about two weeks later. In the following year, while the victims were overcoming ...

Results of “Hong Kong People’s Carbon-Reduction Behaviours and Health”

Results of “Hong Kong People’s Carbon-Reduction Behaviours and Health”

Posted 26/04/2016

A recent territory-wide large scale study by the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC) found that  Higher proportion of ...

Community Knowledge Transfer: Climate and Health – Spring

Posted 28/04/2016

As part of the Centre’s effort in community knowledge transfer, CCOUC Centre Director Professor Emily Chan was featured on episode 120 “Climate and Health – Spring” of the Hong Kong Observatory’s ...

The Leader of the Year 2015 Award

The Leader of the Year 2015 Award

Posted 21/03/2016

CCOUC Director Professor Emily Chan won the Leader of the Year Award 2015 for the Community/Public Affairs/Environment & Conservation category as recognition of her leading CCOUC team in promoting ...