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… Continue reading Cities and infectious disease crisis: COVID-19 lessons from four continents
Author: biosecurities
NSF Research Coordination Network: Wastewater Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 & Emerging Public Health Threats
On January 24, 2025, the NSF Research Coordination Network hosted a virtual workshop focused on the intersection of data justice and wastewater surveillance. This event, supported by NSF Award 2202361, brought together leading experts to discuss key issues surrounding the increasing privatization of health data and the ethical responsibilities of implementing surveillance programs. Keynote speakers… Continue reading NSF Research Coordination Network: Wastewater Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 & Emerging Public Health Threats
Call for papers – AAG CFP 2025: Health in Crisis
AAG CFP 2025: Health in Crisis Detroit, March 24-28, 2025 Organizers: Mohammed Rafi Arefin (UBC), Mollie Holmberg (UBC), Vanessa Koetz (Queen’s), Carolyn Prouse (Queen’s) In recent years a variety of health emergencies, from toxic drug crisis to pandemics of infectious disease, have cascaded to transform the status quo. Since the 1990s, scientists, policymakers, and others have… Continue reading Call for papers – AAG CFP 2025: Health in Crisis
CAG 2024: ‘Pathogenic data colonialism: New frontiers, old fissures’ presented by Dr. Carolyn Prouse
In 2024, the 74th Annual CAG (Canadian Association of Geographers) Meeting and Conference occurred from August 14 to August 18, hosted by Memorial University’s Department of Geography in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. Dr. Prouse presented her research on pathogenic data colonialism. Pathogenic data colonialism: New frontiers, old fissures: In 2006 Indonesia made global headlines… Continue reading CAG 2024: ‘Pathogenic data colonialism: New frontiers, old fissures’ presented by Dr. Carolyn Prouse
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2024 with Dr. Carolyn Prouse and Dr. Rafi Arefin
The Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual International Conference regularly attracts over 2,000 geographers worldwide. This year, the conference took place in London, and Dr. Prouse went there to present the research she has been conducting alongside Dr. Arefin: “Creating vital and valuable public health data from sewage: metabolism, waste, and governance in crisis.” Creating vital… Continue reading RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2024 with Dr. Carolyn Prouse and Dr. Rafi Arefin
NSF RCN Webinar
Check out the participation of Dr. Mohammed Rafi Arefin and Dr. Carolyn Prouse in the National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network (NSF RCN) webinar on wastewater-based epidemiology, which took place on February 5th, 2024. In March 2022, the Water Environment Federation hosted the Wastewater Disease Surveillance Summit in Cincinnati, Ohio. This summit was one of… Continue reading NSF RCN Webinar
Moving from Privacy to Justice in Wastewater Surveillance
An interdisciplinary virtual workshop on the current state of wastewater-based epidemiology and what it will take to build practices and policies rooted in principles of justice. The workshop will be held virtually and will take place on Friday, June 2nd, 2023 from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm EST. It will include three interactive panels followed… Continue reading Moving from Privacy to Justice in Wastewater Surveillance
Funded PhD Position in Biosurveillance and Urban Governance
Dr. Carolyn Prouse (Queen’s University) and Dr. Rafi Arefin (University of British Columbia) have a PhD position available for the SSHRC-funded project Tracking the Virus Hunters: The Power-Laden Geographies of Biosurveillance Economies. The position will be held at Queen’s University (Canada) under the co-supervision of Dr. Prouse and Dr. Arefin. It will start September 2023.… Continue reading Funded PhD Position in Biosurveillance and Urban Governance
CfP AAG 2023: Emerging Geographies of Biosecurity
Organizers: Mohammed Rafi Arefin, Mollie Holmberg, Carolyn Prouse, Chris Reimer Critical scholarship on biosecurity has long highlighted how science and governance intersect to (often violently) produce, manage, and enforce hierarchical social difference in the name of protecting lives,livelihoods, and geographies that the state and capital value. This scholarship is concerned with diverse responses to threats… Continue reading CfP AAG 2023: Emerging Geographies of Biosecurity