Pandemic Preparedness, Outbreaks, and Conflict
An Interdisciplinary Workshop
Mosquitoes: American soldiers in World War II can encourage them to breed them by leaving ruts in roads and unfilled earth holes, causing mosquito-borne diseases. Colour lithograph after A. Wells , 1944. Source: Wellcome Collection
Pandemic Preparedness, Outbreaks, and Conflict: An Interdisciplinary Workshop
Thursday 16 January 2025, 9.30am - 2pm
Seminar Room 1, Oxford Big Data Institute
Conveners: Tara Hurst, Erica Charters
Refreshments and lunch included: please register to attend.
For online only attendance please register here.
This workshop brings together humanities scholars and medical researchers to discuss current research on disease outbreaks and pandemic preparedness in the context of conflict settings. This in part draws on the PSI’s Nipah programme’s research projects – the BASE study and the STIGMA study – which, because they are based in Bangladesh, have also discussed how to approach preparedness activities and outbreak responses in countries with degrees of unstable political circumstances. The workshop also draws on longstanding research into the relationship between conflicts, disease outbreaks, and medical responses, including Oxford’s Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology’s projects on Malaria in Asia and Medicine and Conflict
Please find Programme here: ppoc-workshop-16-jan-25-programme.pdf
Protests in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, May 2013. Source: BBC News.
Mosquitoes: American soldiers in World War II can encourage them to breed them by leaving ruts in roads and unfilled earth holes, causing mosquito-borne diseases. Colour lithograph after A. Wells , 1944. Source: Wellcome Collection
