Spillover
Author David Quammen in conversation with Anil Ananthaswamy
SDG 3 Good Health and Well-Being
The third Reading for Change event took David Quammen's Spillover as an entry point to SDG 3 Good Health and Well-Being!
On the 3rd October David was in conversation with award-winning writer and journalist Anil Ananthaswamy about Spillover in the context of UN Sustainable Development Goal 3 good health and well being.
Where and why do new pathogens emerge? How do they turn into a pandemic? David Quammen explores these questions in Spillover, an accessible and well-researched book about pathogen spreads before Covid-19.
The October edition of Reading for Change was co-hosted with COVID-Gyan.
Watch a recording of the conversation here, and purchase the book here!
This reading and book discussion is part of Reading for Change, an event series conceived by Champaca Book Store, Science Gallery Bengaluru and Bengaluru Sustainability Forum. The aim of this event series is to offer an entry point for the UN Sustainable Development Goals that goes beyond the academic and expert discussions.
About the Speakers
David Quammen is a well-known science writer and explorer. Author of four books of fiction and eight non-fiction titles including Spillover: Animal Infections and the next Human Pandemic. He is a frequent contributor to National Geographic Magazine among other periodical publications. He lives in Bozeman with his wife, Betsy Gaines Quammen, a conservationist, and a family of large white dogs and a cat.
Anil Ananthaswamy is an award-winning journalist and former staff writer and deputy news editor for the London-based New Scientist magazine. He is currently a Knight Science Journalism research fellow at MIT. His first book, The Edge of Physics, was voted book of the year in 2010 by UK’s Physics World, and his second book, The Man Who Wasn’t There, was long-listed for the 2016 Pen/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. His most recent book,Through Two Doors at Once, was named one of Smithsonian's Favorite Books of 2018 and one of Forbes's 2018 Best Books About Astronomy, Physics and Mathematics.