Inoculating Cities

Dr. Rebecca Katz is a professor and the director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University. She has more than two decades of public health research experience, much of which has focused on global health security, public health preparedness, and health diplomacy. She has written on the urban governance of disease, the flow of infectious disease risk into and between urban areas and worked with municipal authorities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Matthew R. Boyce is a PhD candidate at Georgetown University and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Global Health Science and Security. He serves as the head research associate for the Center’s work on urban pandemic preparedness, has advocated for improving health security and public health preparedness in urban environments, and worked with municipal authorities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to support the local response to the outbreak.

1. Introduction 2. Controlling Dengue, an Urban Pandemic - a case study of Delhi, India 3. The 2019 Measles outbreak in Clark County, Washington 4. Municipal Healthcare Delivery Special Pathogens Preparedness and Response in the City that Never Sleeps: The NYC Health + Hospitals’ Approach to the 2018-2019 Measles Outbreak and Other Infectious Disease Threats 5. The Cleveland Ebola Incident Response 6. Preparedness planning for re-emergent smallpox in differing high income cities - Phoenix, USA and Sydney, Australia 7. Assessing city-level capacity for urban epidemic preparedness and response 8. Developing a more effective locally led response to the HIV epidemic in Blantyre, Malawi 9. Building robust interface between public health authority and medical institutions in a densely populated city: State-of-the-art integrated pandemic and emerging disease preparedness in the Greater Tokyo Area in Japan 10. The translational flow of data: Using science, technology, and data analytics to combat the spread of disease between and within cities 11. After Action Reviews as a Best Practice Tool for Evaluating the Response to Urban Disease Outbreaks in Nigeria 12. Development of Emergency Operation Centers in Myanmar 13. Preparedness through Simulation: Urban Outbreak 2019 14. The Role of Private Sector in Urban Health Security 15. Conclusion