Public talk on public health, disaster, climate change and humanitarian medicine

CCOUC Co-Director, Professor Emily Chan, presented her recent works in public health, disaster, climate change and humanitarian medicine in various locations in four continents to an audience of medical scholars and students of more than 100 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong on 8 October 2025.

In this public talk, Professor Chan introduced to the audience the latest frontiers in the latest frontiers in disaster and humanitarian medicine, including cascading and compound disasters preparedness for communities, bottom-up disaster medical and health preparedness, adverse climate implication son health risk and response, dengue as a forgotten communicable disease and protracted biological hazard, the application of AI and portable devices in medical and public health emergency and disaster responses, and global health diplomacy. She also highlighted the centrality of actionable science in disaster and humanitarian medicine research and practice.