BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conservation Health Security: The Politics\, Ecologies\, and Space s of Conservation-led Infectious Disease Containment - Francis Masse ( Uni versity of Durham) DTSTART:20260224T130000Z DTEND:20260224T140000Z UID:TALK244195@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:María Inés Hernández DESCRIPTION:Conservation Health Security: The Politics\, Ecologies\, and S paces of Conservation-led Infectious Disease Containment\n \nConcerns arou nd zoonotic and infectious animal diseases stand at the core of health sec urity – efforts to protect people\, states\, and economies from infectio us disease risks and threats. While by no means new\, health security\, an d specifically pandemic prevention\, are increasingly intertwined with bro ader socioecological crises and the governing of human-environment relatio ns. There is thus ample room for the conservation sector to play an import ant role\, a task it is accepting. My talk is motivated by thinking about how evolving concerns around health security and infectious disease risk a re (re-)shaping biodiversity conservation policy and practice\; and how co nservation space\, practice\, and actors are working to proactively minimi se the risk\, spread\, and impact of infectious diseases through outbreak prevention\, detection\, and response. While conservation has a long histo ry of intersecting with public health and infectious disease concerns\, I illustrate how there is something different about current conservation-hea lth intersections that point to an emergent conservation health security. I combine recent empirical research with literatures on health security\, the political ecology of conservation\, and political ecologies of diseas e to work towards conceptualising and critically examining this conservati on health security and the spaces and practices through which it manifests . \n LOCATION:HB101\, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR