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Sphere Global Focal Points Biennial Meeting

Sphere Global Focal Points Biennial Meeting

Posted 28/05/2020

As Sphere Focal Point for China, CCOUC was represented by Mr Chi Shing Wong and Mr Zhe Huang at the Sphere Global Focal Points Meeting via Zoom on 26 May 2020. The biennial international event was ...

Keio University RISK AP Seminar: COVID-19: International Responses

Posted 22/05/2020

CCOUC Director Prof Emily Chan delivered a presentation at Keio University RISK AP Seminar entitled “COVID-19: International Responses” via Webex on 21 May 2020. Ms Loretta Hieber Girardet, Head of ...

Alliance of International Science Organizations on Disaster Risk Reduction (ANSO-DRR) Meeting

Alliance of International Science Organizations on Disaster Risk Reduction (ANSO-DRR) Meeting

Posted 22/05/2020

Prof Emily Chan, Prof Kevin Hung and Mr C S Wong of CCOUC team participated in the 2nd Discussion Meeting (Webinar) for Alliance of International Science Organizations on Disaster Risk Reduction ...

Partnership with GX Foundation

Posted 27/11/2020

CCOUC concluded a 3-year Agreement of Understanding for Collaborations with The GX Foundation on April 2020 to jointly promote education, training and research in disaster and humanitarian ...

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 ...