14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON URBAN HEALTH

Health Equity: The New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals

26-29 September 2017 | Coimbra, Portugal

The UHWB programme co-organized the ICUH 2017 and presented/chaires at numerous sessions, among others:

• Welcome from Executive Director, ICSU programme on Urban Health and Wellbeing (Franz Gatzweiler)

• Speaker at the pre-conference workshop HEALTHY-POLIS: HARNESSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVING URBAN HEALTH AND WELLBEING THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY (Franz Gatzweiler)

•  Speaker at the pre-conference workshop SHAPING POLICIES TO PROMOTE URBAN HEALTH EQUITY: A SOCIO-TECHNICAL APPROACH. EVIDENCE FROM THE EURO-HEALTHY CASE STUDIES (Franz Gatzweiler)

• Paper presentation in session Environmental Health and Urban Sustainability. Urban Systems and Wellbeing: Lessons from complexity theory of cities for urban health and wellbeing: building systems intelligence(Franz Gatzweiler)

• Chair of parallel session Healthy urban planning, measurement and metrics, data and research. Monitoring and acting on air pollution(Franz Gatzweiler)

• Chair of closing plenary session ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND URBAN SUSTAINABILITY (Franz Gatzweiler)

• Chair of parallel session Understanding and Addressing Demographic, Epidemiological and Societal Changes in Cities (Yong-Guan Zhu)

• Keynote at plenary closing session ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND URBAN SUSTAINABILITY (Yong-Guan Zhu)

•  Chair of parallel session Understanding and Addressing Demographic, Epidemiological and Societal Changes in Cities. The natural environment, emergency preparedness and the burden of disease(Yong-Guan Zhu)

•  Chair of parallel session Environmental Health and Urban Sustainability. Food systems and food (in)security(José Siri)

• Speaker at parallel panel session The state of the art of urban governance to promote health equity: a follow-up to the 2016 WHO Global Report on Urban Health (Jo Ivey Boufford, Tolu Oni, José Siri, Jason Coburn)

• Speaker on parallel session The long journey to urban health: linking migrants, cities, and sustainable development.Presenter for Systems thinking to catalyze multi-sectoral urban partnerships on migrant health (José Siri).

• Chair of parallel session Environmental Health and Urban Sustainability(José Siri)

• Chair of parallel session Understanding and Addressing Demographic, Epidemiological and Societal Changes in Cities Rural-urban migration & urban slums (José Siri)

• Poster presentationPlanning principle shifts in urban green spaces in megacity Guangzhou(Jieling Liu)

• Poster presetation Investing in skill-development on urban health inequities in the age of ‘big data': Considerations for taking action in global priority populations(Natasha Howard)

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