Mr. Cheuk-pong CHIU
趙卓邦先生
Academic Appointments
• Participant, WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health EDRM) Research Network (TPRN)
• Member, Pre-hospital and Disaster Medicine Subcommittee, Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine
Bio
Mr. Chiu obtained the Advanced Master of Science in Disaster Medicine from the Università del Piemonte Orientale (UPO) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He completed the Master of Public Health (MPH) programme in the concentration of infectious diseases in The University of Hong Kong, and Professional Diploma in Tropical Nursing from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Mr. Chiu is a nurse by training and practiced nursing in the specialties of orthopaedic and emergency. He has been involved in the medical disaster and humanitarian health response at local and international level. He has completed various humanitarian missions including conflict-related emergency in Pakistan and Gaza, Ebola outbreak in Liberia, war-related emergency in Yemen and Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh since 2013. Prior to joining the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Mr. Chiu had also worked at the Hong Kong Red Cross in response to the global health emergency crisis and at a local non-governmental organization serving people living in subdivided flats in Hong Kong.
Research Interest
• Disaster Medicine
• Gerontology
• Refugee health
Selected Publications
1. Saad A, Pottie K, Chiu CP. Refugees and internally displaced populations. In: Kayano R, Murray V, Clarke M, Chan EYY, editors. WHO Guidance on Research Methods for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management. Japan (Kobe): World Health Organization; 2021. p.473-485. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/345591.
2. Chan EYY, Chiu CP, Chan GKW. Medical and health risks associated with communicable diseases of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh 2017. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 2018; 68: 39-43. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2018.01.001
3. Chan EYY, Lam HCY, Chung PPW, Huang Z, Yung TKC, Ling KWK, Chan GKW, Chiu CP. Risk perception and knowledge in fire risk reduction in a Dong minority rural village in China: A health-EDRM education intervention study. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 2018; 9:306-318. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-018-0181-x
4. Huang Z, Chiu CP, Hon KYC, Chan EYY, Chan GKW, Wong CS, Man AYT. Urban threat of infectious diseases. Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC); 2018. Chapter 4.3, Global partnerships for the prevention and control of infectious disease; p.23-28.