Multi-jurisdictional, multi-municipality and diverse cities, while especially vulnerable to emerging infectious disease, can play a significant role in the public health response to pandemics like COVID-19.
An upcoming webinar, 鈥淲hy Pandemics, Such as COVID-19, Require a Metropolitan Response,鈥 hosted by 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) and NYU鈥檚 Marron Institute of Urban Management, will look at emerging evidence from New 91亚色, Wuhan, Paris, and Johannesburg. The webinar will take place on聽Thursday, Dec. 3, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Much of the world鈥檚 urban population is now part of an interconnected and extended metropolitan area across multiple local and regional jurisdictions.
鈥淚t is precisely this interconnectedness, in combination with socioeconomic diversity and inequality, that makes these metropolitan agglomerations both more vulnerable to pandemics and ultimately better able to confront them,鈥 says EUC Professor , panel moderator.
The panellists are calling for the empowerment of metropolitan governmental structures to deal with the challenges of the current pandemic and future emerging infectious disease threats.
笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听, director of the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management, will open the webinar, while Keil will introduce the topic, featuring his work in Toronto.
Panellists will give 10-minute presentations focused on four metropolitan areas:
- New 91亚色: 笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听, director of Urban Expansion at the聽NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management;
- Wuhan: 笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Xuefei Ren, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University;
- 笔补谤颈蝉:听Eric Huybrechts,聽Urban and Environmental planning Agency of Greater Paris Region;
- Johannesburg: 笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听Margot Rubin, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉辞谤听聽of the Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, will present a commentary followed by a Q&A session.
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