Global Health or Economic Health: Do We Have to Choose?

July 13, 2020

Often it seems that we are asked to choose between public health and economic health. However, biologists collaborating with economists have discovered that economic benefits outweigh the costs of some strategies to manage species invasions, including coronaviruses.

David Lodge, director of Cornell’s Atkinson Center for Sustainability, in his CAU Virtual Summer webinar, asks us to consider how such insights could inform policy now and bring long-term health and economic benefits.