SPACE @ CREATE Seminar – August 2024
Dr Natacha Aveline-Dubach, French Lead PI of the SPACE project, chaired the SPACE presentation during the CREATE Seminar
On 22 August 2024, the SPACE project team presented its latest progress on the project.
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.
Speakers: The seminar was chaired by Natacha AVELINE-DUBACH, CNRS research director and French Lead PI of the SPACE project. Other speakers included 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), Frédéric LANDY, an Associated Researcher at Université de Paris-Nanterre, 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.
- Read more about the SPACE project here.