CREATE Seminar Series
Date: Thursday, 22 August 2024
Programme
11 am – Seminar
11.45 am – Q&A
12.15 pm – Lunch with French food
Venue: CREATE Theatrette, CREATE Tower, Level 2 #08-01, 1 Create Way, Singapore 138602
Registration link: https://forms.gle/chNFkxtfqB5LKPVV6 (by 19 August)
Abstract
Infectious diseases present a substantial global threat, involving both longstanding pathogens and emerging ones. The SPACE project has developed a research protocol to improve public adaptive capacity for better prevention and control of infectious diseases, focusing on the lessons learned from combating dengue fever and COVID 19.
In this seminar, SPACE team members will share their preliminary findings. The meeting will start with an overview of the project, followed by presentations on two main approaches created within SPACE to enhance the precision and efficacy of spatiotemporal modeling for dengue outbreaks in Singapore.
One approach focuses on studying the correlation between mosquito populations and building characteristics in HDB neighborhoods, while the other involves integrating daily mobility patterns in correlation with dengue incidence.
The latter part of the presentation will unveil findings from a social science perspective, with the objective of informing public policies. By utilizing a wide range of methods (e.g. household surveys, door-to-door interviews, stakeholder interviews, and content analysis of public health messages), these studies cover a broad spectrum of topics. These include examining emergency risk communication policies regarding the outbreak of dengue and COVID-19, residents’ perceptions of these diseases, policy response to their management, individual and community strategies towards pathogen transmission, differentiated human-mosquito dynamics across residential environments, as well as waste management and associated health risks.
About the Speakers
The seminar will be chaired by Natacha AVELINE-DUBACH, CNRS research director and French Lead PI of the SPACE project. Other speakers include Sam Conrad JOYCE, an associate professor in Design and Artificial intelligence at Singapore University of Technology Design, Ishani MUKHERJEE, an associate professor of Public Policy at Singapore Management University (SMU), Sonny ROSENTHAL, an associate professor of Sustainability Communication at SMU, Kamalika BANERJEE, a research fellow at CNRS@CREATE, Raksha MAHTANI, a research associate at CNRS@CREATE, and Josephin BERAUD, a research associate at CNRS@CREATE.
The SPACE project
Hosted by CNRS@CREATE, the SPACE (Shaping Public Adaptive Capacity For Environmental Infectious Diseases) program aims to develop a dynamic and adaptive approach to urban sustainability.
The SPACE project aims to develop a dynamic and adaptive approach to urban sustainability. The project builds on analyses of the risk factors and socio-spatial patterns that drive dengue transmission in Singapore, as well as the social and technical skills developed by individuals, community groups and state actors in response to the spread of the disease. The project uses the concept of “adaptive capacity” (AC) to explore the potential of community “latent social capital” as a key asset for adaptive responses to dengue-related health challenges as it interacts with COVID-19 in the context of Singapore’s “Smart Nation” initiative.
Led by Natacha AVELINE-DUBACH, research director at CNRS and member of the UMR Géographie-cités, this four-year project (2022 – 2025), with a budget of 3.6 million euros, brings together several partners in addition to CNRS@CREATE: Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore Humanities and Social Sciences University (SUSS), Singapore Management University (SMU). CREATE is located in the National University of Singapore’s University Town (NUS U-Town), close to Singapore’s other high-tech hubs such as Biopolis, Fusionopolis, and the science parks.
