5 – Health and Disease

Team Leader: Isaac Luginaah

Our Health and Disease team focuses on historical and contemporary epidemiological and public health data to interrogate the intersections between environment, disease and health in the Indian Ocean World.

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Cholera Outbreaks 1957 to 1960

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The Appraising Risk Partner is an international collaboration of scholars and researchers dedicated to exploring the critical role of climatic crises in the past and future of the Indian Ocean World. With generous support from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the partnership seeks to create a comprehensive spatial and temporal database of human-environment interaction and interdependence during periods of climatic change.