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CCOUC contacted Nepalese students to offer support in response to the devastating earthquake

Posted 30/04/2015

  The 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck Nepal on 25 April 2015, with its epicenter in Lamjung district, 77 km northwest of the capital, Kathmandu, has affected at least 11 districts in the ...

International Workshop on “Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030”

International Workshop on “Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030”

Posted 23/03/2015

(Download full report here.)    Following the end of the United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in Sendai (the very major city struck by the 3/11 Great East Japan ...

CCOUC Chinese website launched

Posted 21/03/2015

  Accompanying CCOUC’s International Workshop “Implementation of the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia”, the Centre launched its Chinese website on 23 March 2015 to facilitate ...

CCOUC participates in the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

CCOUC participates in the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

Posted 13/04/2015

Professor Emily Chan gave a 14-minute presentation at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction at Sendai of Japan (14-18 March 2015). Watch now   A CCOUC delegation of ...

CCOUC joins the Oxford Tropical Network Conference 2015 in Cambodia

CCOUC joins the Oxford Tropical Network Conference 2015 in Cambodia

Posted 17/03/2015

  As one of the Oxford research centres in the region, CCOUC joined the Oxford Tropical Network Conference 2015 held in Siem Reap of Cambodia during 8-11 March. CCOUC Clinic Tutor Dr. Greta Tam ...

CCOUC member awarded a scholarship for the 19th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WCDEM)

Posted 11/02/2015

  Mr. Kelvin LING, a CCOUC member and doctoral student, has been awarded the WCDEM Student Scholarship (for Registration Waiver) to attend the 19th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine ...

CCOUC Meets Delegates from Urumqi of China’s Xinjiang Province at Oxford University

CCOUC Meets Delegates from Urumqi of China’s Xinjiang Province at Oxford University

Posted 08/01/2015

  CCOUC delegates met with representatives from Xinjiang Medical University and Cancer Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in a dinner hosted by Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of ...

CCOUC Visits Nuffield Department of Medicine at Oxford University

CCOUC Visits Nuffield Department of Medicine at Oxford University

Posted 08/01/2015

  CCOUC Director Professor Emily Chan led a delegation of the Centre to attend meetings with renowned medical professionals within Oxford University on 11 December 2014,. This visit came following a ...

Oxford Day 2014: In Celebration of the Oxford University-CUHK Collaboration over the Past Decade

Oxford Day 2014: In Celebration of the Oxford University-CUHK Collaboration over the Past Decade

Posted 08/01/2015

  Over the weekend of the 12th of December, 2014, Professor Emily Chan, the Directors of the Collaborative Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response ...

CUHK CGH Distinguished Lecture Series: Vision and Experience Sharing from Public Health England

CUHK CGH Distinguished Lecture Series: Vision and Experience Sharing from Public Health England

Posted 09/12/2014

  In view of the continuous outbreaks of global health crises and the world’s attention towards the role of public health institutions in responding to the transnational threats, the Centre for ...