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
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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