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Published on February 26, 2024
Dahdaleh Institute members Raphael Aguiar, Roger Keil, and Mary Wiktorowicz published a ground-breaking paper offering a new perspective on AMR governance, leveraging Urban Political Ecology (UPE) as a transformative urban lens to identify under-exposed urban dimensions of AMR and its interconnected threats. In this article, the authors highlight how UPE illuminates the socio-ecological processes driving AMR, framing it within urbanization approaches and unveiling its connections to environmental threats and underlying structural dimensions.
Key Insights:
- Explores how urbanization shapes social, political, and environmental co-determinants of AMR and other Global Health threats;
- Highlights synergies between UPE scholarship and One Health approaches, revealing under-exposed links between AMR and environmental threats;
- Uncovers shared governance pathways for AMR and environmental issues, paving the way for more equitable and sustainable solutions to One Health threats.
Implications:
In mobilizing the urban dimension of Global Health in innovative and productive ways; the paper offers practical insights for policymakers and practitioners. Integrating UPE into AMR governance would foster collaborative, equitable, and effective strategies to tackle global health threats in a systemic manner.
Aguiar, Raphael, Keil, Roger, & Wiktorowicz, Mary (2024). The urban political ecology of antimicrobial resistance: A critical lens on integrative governance. Social Science & Medicine, 116689. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116689
Themes | Global Health & Humanitarianism |
Status | Active |
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Mary E. Wiktorowicz, Associate Director Active
Roger Keil, Faculty Fellow, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Active Raphael Aguiar, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Global Health & Humanitarianism and Planetary Health Active |
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