See the WORKSHOP SCHEDULE here

SUBSTANCE OF THE WORKSHOP

The workshop will focus on the first and second of three research areas we have identified for the project. See our documents section for more details. The two areas we are planning to concentrate this collaborative aspect of the project on are:
1) global city formation and infectious disease and
2) health governance

1. The first refers to the relationship of the global city network and infectious disease: “Issues arising in this inquiry domain include, for example, questions such as: how has the global city network altered the worldwide distribution of pathogens and what does this mean for the fight against diseases such as SARS in particular global cities?”

2. The health governance area of our research “relates to institutional governance and regulation: it contains issues of urban vulnerability and public health security in the context of the global city and includes questions such as:
How does the global city provide the social and environmental interactions necessary for the spread of an emerging disease?
How do global cities provide microbes with a range of opportunities unavailable in other settings (particularly important with reference to hospitals in different urban settings)?
How is this different from the past?