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What Factors Caused the Spread of COVID-19 among the Provincial Regions in China? 16 October 2020 | 11:00–12:15 (GMT+8) | Zoom |
 SpeakerProf. Jianfa Shen Professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management; Director, Research Centre for Urban and Regional Development, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, CUHK |
Prof. Wei Xu
Professor of Geography, Department of Geography, University of Lethbridge, Canada Prof. Jiang Xu Professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK Prof. Calvin Chung Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK |
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Since December 2019 the COVID-19 pandemic has swept through China and the world. COVID-19 is a highly contagious virus that spreads very rapidly across various communities, cities, and countries, mainly through person-to-person contact. The spread of COVID-19 is a typical temporal-spatial process, which raises key research questions about its spread through space. This webinar reported and discussed recent research findings that help to answer these questions, especially the important role that existing migration networks are having on the spread of COVID-19, which has important policy implications for any response.
Prof. Shen’s presentation covered the following topics: (1) the spatial diffusion of infectious diseases; (2) Covid-19 in China and its provincial regions; (3) the process of the growth and diffusion of COVID-19 in China; and (4) factors that caused the spread of COVID-19 in China. Panelists discussed the factors that caused the spread of COVID-19 among the provincial regions of China, as well as the roles played by distance, transportation, population density, and migration flows in the geographic spread of COVID-19. Around 50 participants attended the webinar. ■ |
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Individual and Policy Responses to COVID-19: Local and Global Perspectives
18 September 2020 | 11:00–12:15 (GMT+8) | Zoom |
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Prof. Maggie R. Hu
Assistant Professor of Real Estate and Finance, CUHK Business School Prof. Kin-on Kwok Assistant Professor, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK Prof. Michael Z. Song Professor, Department of Economics, CUHK |
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In the webinar, Prof. Maggie R. Hu, Prof. Kin-on Kwok, and Prof. Michael Z. Song were invited to share their perspectives on individual self-protective responses and public policy responses to COVID-19 on both the local and global levels. The webinar covered three main topics: (1) COVID-19 and travel activities: local and global evidence from Airbnb; (2) epidemiological characteristics of laboratory confirmed cases of the COVID-19 epidemic in Hong Kong; and (3) containing COVID-19 by testing and contact tracing: evidence from Asia, Europe, and the U.S. It is expected that a combination of individual and policy responses will help to control the pandemic around the world.
Around 40 participants attended the webinar. ■ |
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Prof. Nancy S. Jecker
Professor of Bioethics & Humanities, University of Washington Medical School, United States; Visiting Professor, CUHK Centre for Bioethics Prof. Roger Y. Chung Associate Director, Institute of Health Equity; Assistant Professor, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK Prof. Hon-lam Li Professor, Department of Philosophy, CUHK; Deputy Director, CUHK Centre for Bioethics |
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In the webinar, Prof. Nancy S. Jecker, Prof. Roger Y. Chung, and Prof. Hon-lam Li were invited to share their views on the bioethical issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar covered three main topics: (1) prioritizing frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic; (2) using a public health ethics framework to unpick discrimination in COVID-19 responses; and (3) reopening economies during the COVID-19 pandemic: reasoning about value tradeoffs. Major bioethical issues addressed in the presentations included: Who should receive scarce medical resources? Should the utilitarian objective of promoting public health override non-utilitarian values, such as liberty and autonomy, privacy and confidentiality, transparency and trust, and justice and fairness? How should we determine whether to adopt the policy of herd immunity, whether to reopen the economy, and whether the wearing of masks in public should be made mandatory?
Around 70 participants attended the webinar. ■ |
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