Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) Sociology professor S. Harris Ali recently contributed to an article published in The Conversation – looking at the close relationships between urban development and new/re-emerging disease outbreaks such as the ongoing coronavirus.

The article, written in collaboration with Faculty of Environmental Studies professor Roger Keil and University of Lincoln senior lecturer Creighton Connolly, examines how urbanization has played a significant role in the spreading of infections – connecting these health-related phenomena to the physical, spatial, economic, social, and ecological changes brought on by the evolution of transportation infrastructure.

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To read this article in The Conversation, click here: https://theconversation.com/outbreaks-like-coronavirus-start-in-and-spread-from-the-edges-of-cities-130666