{"id":5105,"date":"2022-05-17T09:42:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T13:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/dighr\/?post_type=person&#038;p=5105"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:57:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T13:57:02","slug":"harris-ali","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/dighr\/person\/harris-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Harris Ali is a sociologist at 快播视频 who teaches courses in environmental studies, disasters, social theory, and environmental health. His studies focus on the social, political, and environmental dimensions of disease outbreaks and environmental disasters. He has conducted various studies on different types of infectious disease outbreaks in various parts of the world, including <em>E. coli <\/em>in Walkerton, Ontario, tuberculosis amongst the homeless in Toronto, community-based responses to Ebola in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Alongside his long-time research colleague and Dahdaleh Institute Faculty Fellow Roger Keil, Prof. Ali completed a comprehensive study of the 2003 outbreak of SARS in Singapore, Toronto, and Hong Kong. This culminated in an edited volume on SARS (<em>Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City<\/em>), which was recognized by <em>The Globe and Mail<\/em> as one of the \"top ten books that offer lessons from past pandemics.\" He is currently a co-principal investigator with Fuyuki Kurasawa on a Canadian Institutes of Health Research grant that involves big data analyses and AI to understand the role of social media in flaming and countering anti-Asian racism during the present COVID response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research keywords:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Politics of infectious disease in the Global South; Frantz Fanon; disease and cities in the Global South<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5492,"menu_order":2,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"person-type":[68],"research-theme":[17],"stage":[44],"relationship":[63],"class_list":["post-5105","person","type-person","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-person","person-type-faculty-fellow","research-theme-planetary-health","stage-active","relationship-internal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Harris Ali - Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/dighr\/person\/harris-ali\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harris Ali - Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Harris Ali is a sociologist at 快播视频 who teaches courses in environmental studies, disasters, social theory, and environmental health. 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