The National Academy of Sciences’ Health and Medicine Division hosts a public workshop on how humans’ built environment is impacting the spread of disease.
The event, “Urbanization and Slums: New Transmission Pathways of Infectious Diseases in the Built Environment” will examine how such urban spread is impacting people’s health; the role of certain characteristics such as land-use patterns; social and behavioral factors; and how to shape such environments to prevent and mitigate infectious disease outbreaks, among other topics.
The event will be held at NAS headquarters in Washington, D.C.; register here.