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Meeting with new Vice-Chancellor of University of Oxford

Meeting with new Vice-Chancellor of University of Oxford

Posted 28/04/2016

CCOUC Director Professor Emily Chan visited University of Oxford together with the delegation of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) led by Vice-Chancellor Professor Joseph Sung from 31 March ...

CGH & CCOUC Lunch-Time Lecture Series 2016: Fresh from the field: Experience sharing from CCOUC’s evaluation trip to Yunnan Province, China

CGH & CCOUC Lunch-Time Lecture Series 2016: Fresh from the field: Experience sharing from CCOUC’s evaluation trip to Yunnan Province, China

Posted 01/04/2016

A team of 22 student trainees from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Harvard University undertook a CCOUC field visit to Manbangtang Village at Yunnan ...

International Conference on the Implementation of the Health Aspects of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 – 2030 in Bangkok, Thailand

International Conference on the Implementation of the Health Aspects of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 – 2030 in Bangkok, Thailand

Posted 01/04/2016

Four CCOUC members participated in the International Conference on the Implementation of the Health Aspects of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 – 2030, jointly convened by the United ...

A visit to the Ministry of Health and Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan in the Kingdom of Bhutan

A visit to the Ministry of Health and Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan in the Kingdom of Bhutan

Posted 23/05/2016

A four-person team of the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC) and JC School of Public Health and Primary Care (JCSPHPC) of The ...

UNISDR Science & Technology Conference in Geneva on Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

UNISDR Science & Technology Conference in Geneva on Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

Posted 23/02/2016

Five CCOUC members participated in the UNISDR Science & Technology Conference on the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, hosted by The United Nations Office ...

WHO Thematic Platform Meeting on Emergency and Disaster Risk Management for Health (EDRM-H) in Geneva

WHO Thematic Platform Meeting on Emergency and Disaster Risk Management for Health (EDRM-H) in Geneva

Posted 23/02/2016

Five members of CCOUC were invited to attend the Thematic Platform Meeting on Research, Knowledge and Evidence for Emergency and Disaster Risk Management for Health (EDRM-H), hosted by WHO in Geneva, ...

Talks at FXB Center of Harvard University

Talks at FXB Center of Harvard University

Posted 28/12/2015

CCOUC Director Prof. Emily Chan, as a visiting scholar of the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, was invited to share her experiences and insights on leading CCOUC to build programmes on ...

Renewing the collaborations between CCOUC and Harvard University research units

Posted 28/12/2015

The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between CCOUC and Harvard University’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) was renewed for another three years in ...

CGH & CCOUC Lunchtime Lecture: A Complex Context – Myanmar, Disasters and the Health System

Posted 20/01/2016

Dr Andrew Darby Smith from Oxford shared his research on disaster risk and the health system response capacity of Myanmar in a lunchtime lecture jointly hosted by CUHK Centre for Global Health and ...

Community Knowledge Transfer: Climate and Health – Winter

Posted 29/12/2015

As part of the Centre’s effort in community knowledge transfer, CCOUC Centre Director Professor Emily Chan was featured on episode 101 “Climate and Health – Winter” of the Hong Kong Observatory’s ...