Date: Sunday, March 23
Time: 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET
Location: Inn on Ferry Street, Detroit (Hybrid Event)
Join us as we reflect on nearly five years since the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Experts from four continents will share insights into tackling public health and infectious disease challenges, while addressing how urban infrastructure, housing, and governance have evolved during this global emergency. Discover the findings from four USF-funded projects that bridge research and practice to address pandemic-driven urban issues in the Global North and South. Engage with panelists as they connect experiences across diverse urban contexts and explore innovative paths for urban transformation in a post-crisis world.
Featured Panelists:
- Rafi Arefin (UBC): The urban politics of wastewater-based epidemiology: transforming the relationship between waste, health, and urban governance
- Roger Keil (York University): The city after COVID-19: vulnerability and urban governance in Chicago, Toronto, and Johannesburg
- Fiona Anciano (University of the Western Cape): From social infrastructure to pandemic resilience?: learning from and with low-income urban communities
- Rae Baker (University of Cincinnati): Dispatches from the threshold: organizing for housing justice in a pandemic
- Wangui Kimari (American University, Nairobi): A USF board trustee, Dr. Kimari’s work draws on urban political ecology and the black radical tradition, thinking through urban spatial management in Nairobi.
Panel chaired by Carolyn Prouse (Queen’s University) and Xuefei Ren (MSU).
Discover insights from four USF-funded projects bridging research and practice in the Global North and South.