The Built Environment and the Future of Malaria
Tue, Nov 17
|Virtual Event
This session continues the Risk & Intelligence cycle by turning to malaria, a disease whose geography is being redrawn by a warming climate, shifting rainfall, and changing patterns of land use and human movement.
Time & Location
Nov 17, 2026, 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM EST
Virtual Event
About the event
The Built Environment and the Future of Malaria
Malaria has long followed the contours of climate: temperature, rainfall, and altitude have shaped where mosquitoes thrive and where transmission takes hold. Those contours are now moving. Highlands once considered too cool are seeing new risk, rainy seasons are arriving at different times and with different intensity, and the tools built to anticipate outbreaks are being asked to work under conditions they weren’t designed for. This session of the Risk & Intelligence cycle brings together perspectives from public health, climate science, and the communities and health systems on the front line of these shifts.
The central question this session sits with: what does it take to anticipate and prepare for malaria risk when the climate patterns that once made it predictable are no longer stable?
Our speakers join not to deliver final answers but to think through these shifts in real time…
