Inside Health in Urban Development MSc

About the Health in Urban Development MSc

By studying on the Health in Urban Development MSc, you will gain the subject-specific knowledge and skills to become a socially-sensitive urban health practitioner who can make links between health and development planning in urban governance (institutions), in the physical (land and infrastructure) and the social (community), and you will be able to develop responses to the challenges of urban inequality, informality and environmental risks.

The course provides participants with the necessary academic and professional skills to be involved in the field of urban health, focusing on:

• The positive and negative effects of urbanisation processes in the Global South on both physical and mental health, and the root causes of intra-urban disparities in health.
• The important role that development planning and public health play in the health of urban dwellers.
• The interaction between specific aspects of city life such as housing, transportation, food, infrastructure, productive processes and their impact on human health.
• The evaluation and design of intervention strategies aiming at fostering healthy urban communities, ranging from the international to the national scale.