2025 Session #1: Intersections Between Conflict, Environmental Factors and Disability
Presenter:
Vernon Morris, Associate Dean, Knowledge Enterprise and Strategic Outcomes, Arizona State University
Synopsis:
What are the connections between environmental change and disability? There are many possible implications of environmental change on increasing the prevalence of disabilities in east African populations. It is well established that climate change can lead to increased exposures to vector-borne disease, parasitic infections, water-borne toxics. Conflict and forced migration can also cause extensive ecological disruption and environmental changes that amplify environmental risk factors that might induce disabilities (blindness, muscle atrophy, neurological disorders, etc.), as well. The panel would examine these and other challenges at the intersection of environment and disability.