Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease

Join in person or via Zoom us for a Global Health Politics Workshop with Brent Z. Kaup, Director of the Environment & Sustainability Program and Professor of Sociology, College of William & Mary. Kaup's work focuses on the ways in which liberal forms of economic organization transform the environment in ways that influence human health, social inequality, and community resilience.

Over the past fifty years, insects have transmitted infectious diseases to humans with greater frequency and in more unexpected places. To examine this phenomenon, Brent Z. Kaup explores how the rising power and profits of Wall Street underpin the contemporary increases in and inadequate responses to vector-borne disease. Doing so, he demonstrates how the broader financialization of society is intimately intertwined with both the creation of landscapes more conducive to vector-borne disease and the failure to prevent and cure such diseases throughout the world.

When 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm on 23 October 2025
Building Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, 67 Bay State Road