Collaborating Centre for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response

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Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response [1] was established jointly by Oxford University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) as a non-profit research centre to carry out research, training and community knowledge transfer in the area of disaster and medical humanitarian response in Greater China and the Asia-Pacific Region. [2] It is housed in the CUHK Faculty of Medicine and its director is Emily Ying Yang Chan as of 2016.

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History

CCOUC was established jointly by Oxford University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in April 2011. Its founding director is Emily Ying Yang Chan.[ citation needed ]

Mission

CCOUC aims to minimise the negative health impact of disasters experienced by vulnerable populations in the region by serving as a platform for research, education, and community knowledge transfer in the areas of disaster and medical humanitarian crisis policy development, planning, and response.[ citation needed ]

Focus and activities

CCOUC's main initiatives include the study and promotion of population's disaster preparedness, [3] disaster preparedness kit, [4] [5] bottom-up approach to disaster relief, [6] Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, [7] climate change and health. [8] [9] CCOUC also runs an Ethnic Minority Health Project in China to study and promote disaster preparedness and public health in remote rural villages in the country's inland western provinces [10]

The Centre has participated in the World Health Organization (WHO)'s consultation meeting on disaster health risk management and established international co-operation with leading institutions in the field, including the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) [11] in Belgium, and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative [12] and FXB Center for Health and Human Rights [13] at Harvard University.

The Secretariat for World Health Organization Thematic Platform for Health Emergency & Disaster Risk Management Research Group (WHO TPRG) has been set up at CCOUC since October 2016. CCOUC has also been recognised by Integrated Research on Disaster Risk International [14] to lead one of its 12 International Centre of Excellence since November 2016. [15] The Centre has also been appointed Sphere Country Focal Point for China since August 2014 to promote the internationally recognised minimum standards in humanitarian response for the Geneva-based International Sphere Project.[ citation needed ]

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