News Updates

Two Poster Presentations at the UK Faculty of Public Health’s Annual Conference 2014

Posted 31/10/2014

  Dr. Greta Tam, CCOUC Clinical Tutor, participated in the UK Faculty of Public Health’s Annual Conference 2014 held in Manchester on 2-3 July 2014.  Dr. Tam delivered two poster presentations at ...

Agreement of Understanding between CCOUC and Public Health Emergency Center at Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC)

Agreement of Understanding between CCOUC and Public Health Emergency Center at Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC)

Posted 10/07/2014

  Prof. Emily Chan (centre right) met Mr. Zhang Bike (second from right) in Beijing on 25 June 2014. An Agreement of Understanding (合作意向书) between CCOUC and Public Health Emergency Center at ...

CCOUC won best paper award in the 12th Asia Pacific Conference on Disaster Medicine

Posted 15/09/2014

  A CCOUC paper entitled “Impact of Disaster Preparedness intervention in Yi minority community in Sichuan Province, China” co-authored by 5 members of CCOUC won the best paper award in the 12th ...

CCOUC is now recruiting students and volunteers to join the field-based activity of CCOUC Ethnic Minority Health Project !

Posted 12/09/2014

  Students and volunteers from all disciplines are welcome. For interested parties, please click here to register. We will keep you informed regarding the upcoming news and events, including ...

A Press Commentary on Community Disaster Preparedness

Posted 26/08/2014

Why community disaster preparedness Earlier this August, many of us in Hong Kong were shocked by the consecutive disasters in mainland China and Taiwan, including a 6.5-magnitude earthquake striking ...

CCOUC partners with Hong Kong Academy of Medicine to build HKJCDPRI in strengthening public health disaster training and community resilience in the next 5 years

Posted 22/08/2014

As a collaborating partner of Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (HKAM) in the establishment of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Disaster Preparedness and Response Institute (HKJC DPRI), CCOUC has received a ...

CCOUC member awarded a training and research scholarship for the Harvard Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Programme

Posted 18/08/2014

Dr. Greta Tam, CCOUC Clinic Tutor, has been awarded the prestigious annual Dr TY Chau Training and Research Scholarship, 2014 from the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine (HKCCM) to attend the ...

CCOCU affiliate on a one-month Hong Kong Red Cross operation in Ebola-hit West Africa

Posted 14/08/2014

Eliza Yee-lai Cheung , a CCOUC honorary clinical psychologist, was deployed late July 2014 as the Hong Kong Red Cross clinical psychologist to a one-month Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) mission in Liberia ...

CCOUC appointed Sphere Country Focal Point for China

Posted 14/08/2014

CCOUC is appointed as Sphere Country Focal Point for China from August 2014 to promote the internationally recognized sets of minimum standards in humanitarian response developed by the Sphere ...

CCOUC Fellow Sharing Session: Post-disaster Insights and Experiences

CCOUC Fellow Sharing Session: Post-disaster Insights and Experiences

Posted 14/08/2014

Two CCOUC Undergraduate Fellows shared the experience of their works in CCOUC and their missions to disaster-prone and post-disaster sites in the CCOUC Fellow Sharing Session on 13 August ...