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Arboviruses in the Anthropocene: Critical Global Health Approaches to Infectious Disease Resurgence

Datum
01. Juli 2025 

Work­shop at Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Lon­don, UK


Arbovirus­es in the Anthro­pocene: Crit­i­cal Glob­al Health Approach­es to Infec­tious Dis­ease Resur­gence Workshop

KEYNOTES: Alex Nad­ing, Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty; Ann Kel­ly, Uni­ver­si­ty of Oxford

Tues­day 1st July 2025

UCL Crit­i­cal Glob­al Health Net­work, UCL Anthro­pocene, Health, Mind, and Society

Insti­tute for Glob­al Health

Vec­tor-borne infec­tious dis­ease resur­gence is a grow­ing con­cern – par­tic­u­lar­ly arbovirus­es. Trans­mit­ted to humans by arthro­pod vec­tors, they include dengue, chikun­gun­ya, and zika, among oth­ers. (Re)emerging arbovirus­es have been iden­ti­fied as a seri­ous and grow­ing threat to glob­al pub­lic health (WHO, 2022). The Anthro­pocene exac­er­bates the risk. Ris­ing tem­per­a­tures, chang­ing rain­fall pat­terns, and changes in land use result­ing from human-caused cli­mate change have the poten­tial to dri­ve increased arbovirus out­breaks in endem­ic areas and increase the geo­graph­ic range of their vec­tors to pre­vi­ous­ly unaIect­ed regions (Robert, Stew­art-Ibar­ra and Estal­lo, 2020). The impact of resurg­ing arbovirus infec­tions are already being felt glob­al­ly, with pub­lic health emer­gen­cies dri­ven by dengue, zika, oropouche, yel­low fever and West Nile virus record­ed in Asia, Africa, and the Amer­i­c­as in recent years (Wilder-Smith et al., 2017; PAHO/WHO, 2024; Ban­goura et al., 2025; Min­Salud, 2025; Schwartz, 2025). In the face of such threats, a crit­i­cal, inter­dis­ci­pli­nary per­spec­tive on arbovirus (re)emergence in the Anthro­pocene era is essential.

We invite par­tic­i­pants from any (social sci­ence and adja­cent) dis­ci­pline and career stage, to a one-day hybrid in-per­son work­shop, con­vened by the UCL Crit­i­cal Glob­al Health Net­work, to explore crit­i­cal glob­al health approach­es to infec­tious dis­ease resur­gence, includ­ing but not lim­it­ed to:

• One health, plan­e­tary health, and more-than-human entanglements

• Envi­ron­men­tal repro­duc­tive justice

• Anthro­pol­o­gy of the Anthropocene

• Struc­tur­al deter­mi­nants of health

• Colo­nial­i­ty and decolonis­ing glob­al health

Par­tic­i­pants will be invit­ed to pub­lish their work in an edit­ed col­lec­tion pub­lished by UCL Press.

The work­shop will involve expert keynotes, col­lec­tive dis­cus­sion, and work­shop­ping of work-in progress.

All food will be pro­vid­ed. We have some trav­el sup­port avail­able for ECRs.

Please send an expres­sion of inter­est to Beck­ie (Rebecca.irons@ucl.ac.uk) and Ros (rosamund.greiner.18@ucl.ac.uk) by 31st May to con­firm your place.