IMPORTANT
(REPOST) GES Spring Seminar: Dr. Sarah Paige
Medical geography and global disease policy
Wednesday, April 1, 2026 · 12 - 1 PM
Please join the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems for their Spring Seminar Series.
Dr. Sarah Paige (University of Heidelberg) will present:
"How a Medical Geography Research Program Informed a Global Policy to Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Novel Zoonotic Disease Outbreaks."
This talk highlights how geographically informed research, particularly from the Kibale EcoHealth Project (KEP) in western Uganda which helped shape global health security frameworks. KEP supported interdisciplinary research from 2005–2017 on bat behavior, microbiomes, and zoonotic spillover risk in a region with high levels of human–animal contact. The project's findings contributed to the formation of a One Health Committee and influenced global policy approaches to emerging infectious diseases.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health.
Talk will also be available via Webex.
This event is open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.