Crisis, Public Health and The City

In this episode Beth and Tom are joined by Cristina Temenos from the University of Manchester to discuss a wide range of issues from trust in medicine, responses to COVID-19 and experimentation and evidence in localised healthcare settings.

Together, they ask:

• Faced with crisis after crisis, how do municipalities deliver public health care in Athens, Santiago and Greater Manchester?
• What forms of experimentation, innovation and alternative provision emerge during crisis, and what does this mean for the role of state and non-state services in addressing the needs of vulnerable populations?
• What does crisis policy-making look like and how is it changing the way we are thinking about evidence and expertise?

Guests:
Cristina Temenos is a Reader in Human Geography, an urban, political geographer, her current project explores how cities are managing intersecting health, economic and social crises to negotiate more just urban futures. Her research is focused on health inequalities and the politics of access to care in cities globally. Working in the field of policy mobilities, she has developed this work in relation to drug use and treatment, public health, housing, economic austerity, environmental sustainability, transport, and climate change.  She has recently published in journals such as Progress in Human Geography, IJURR and Dialogues in Urban Research.