SPACE researchers convened in Paris at the historic Centre Pantheon on 7-8 Dec 2023 for a two-day workshop on “Preventing and controlling infectious diseases in the built environment of city regions: France-Singapore cross-views”!

Our interdisciplinary research team represented by CNRS researchers from France, and Singapore-based researchers from NTU, NUS, SMU, SUSS, and SUTD presented our findings from SPACE by covering a range of topics, including spatial mapping and modelling of the spread of infectious diseases, public communication strategies within and outside of pandemics, public health interventions, and many more.

Special thanks to my Co-Lead PI, Natacha Aveline, as well as the Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne for hosting the event! Many thanks to our keynote speakers Robert Boyer (research director at CNRS, Institut des Amériques) and Jean-Paul Gaudillière (research director at EHESS) who offered broader perspectives on how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced capitalism(s), and how the international public health landscape is evolving in the context of current global health governance. Our other distinguished presenters include Cécile Faliés, Stephane Ghiotti, Judith Rainhorn, Céline Vacchiani, Laëtitia Gauvin, Jean Debrie, Juliette Maulat, and our dedicated team of SPACE researchers.

SPACE (“Shaping Public Adaptive Capacity for Environmental Infectious Diseases”) is a research project funded by the Singapore National Research Foundation, under the CREATE program and hosted by the CNRS@CREATE entity. By placing social sciences and architecture at the core of its approach, the SPACE project seeks to fill the knowledge gap in epidemiological theory by investigating, through various scales and methods, the social and urban dynamics at play in epidemics.