The Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), the Centre for Global Health (CGH), and GX Foundation invite you to an insightful public forum highlighting key operational challenges in dengue and flooding risk management.
Prof. Emily Ying-yang CHAN, Director of CCOUC and CGH and CEO of GX Foundation, will kickstart the forum with opening remarks, followed by in-depth sharing sessions from trainers and student participants of the CCOUC humanitarian field-based training program in Cambodia (July 2026), and the opportunity to engage in direct discussion with them.
Registration closes at 11 AM, 17 September, 2026 (Thursday).
For enquiries, please contact Dr Chunlan Gao at chunlanguo@cuhk.edu.hk .
| Topic | Field-Based Training for Health Professional Students in Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (HEDRM): Learning, Practice and Reflection |
| Date | 18 September 2026 (Friday) |
| Time | 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM (HKT, UTC+8) |
| Format | Hybrid Mode (In-person + Zoom Meeting) |
| Venue | Seminar Room 1 2/F, Lui Che Woo Clinical Sciences Building (LCWCSB) Prince of Wales Hospital Shatin |
| Opening Speaker | Prof. Emily Ying-yang CHAN Director, Collaborating Centre for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC) & Centre for Global Health (CGH), JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK Chief Executive Officer, GX Foundation Kuok Group Professor of Global Public Health and Humanitarian Medicine, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK |
| Moderator | Dr Chunlan Guo Assistant Director, Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK |
| Abstract | Field-based training plays a vital role in preparing health professional students for the complex realities of disaster risk management and humanitarian medicine. For students from developed regions, gaining firsthand exposure to healthcare systems in resource-deficit communities is essential to nurturing a new generation of public health professionals with a global vision. Beyond a general introduction to field-based and service-learning models, this forum will showcase fresh insights from the CCOUC humanitarian field-based training program in Cambodia (July 2026), highlighting key operational challenges in dengue and flooding risk management. Attendees will also have the opportunity to engage directly in discussion with the program’s trainers and student participants. |
| Agenda | Open Remarks by Prof. Emily Ying-yang Chan Field-based Learning/ Service-Learning for Health Professional Student Training CCOUC Cambodia Humanitarian Field-Based Training Program Recap Two Student Group Sharing Discussion and Closing, coordinated by Dr Chunlan Guo |
About the Speaker
Prof. Emily Ying-yang Chan is a clinical doctor and an expert in public health and humanitarian medicine, with more than a decade of experience in global humanitarian health intervention research and frontline operation. She has been the Chief Executive Officer of GX Foundation since 2019, while concurrently serving as Assistant Dean (External Affairs), Professor, and supervisor of PhD students and post-doctoral fellows at Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and Director of the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), CUHK Centre for Global Health (CGH), and International Centre of Excellence in Public Health and Community Resilience (ICoE-CCOUC) of International Science Council’s Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) programme.
She is also Visiting Professor (Public Health Medicine) at Oxford University Nuffield Department of Medicine, Fellow at FXB Center of Harvard University, Honorary Professor at Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of University of Hong Kong, Global Co-chairperson of the World Health Organization Thematic Platform for Health Emergency & Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM) Research Network, and a member of United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Asia-Pacific Science Technology and Academia Advisory Group (APSTAAG), Scientific Working Group (SWG) of World Health Organization Centre for Health Development (WHO Kobe Centre, WKC), Alliance of International Science Organizations on Disaster Risk Reduction (ANSO-DRR) International Steering Committee and the Third China Committee for Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR China).
About CCOUC
The CCOUC was jointly established by the Oxford University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. As a non-profit research centre, it is dedicated to research, training and community knowledge transfer in disaster and medical humanitarian response in Greater China and the Asia-Pacific Region.